TokBox is new Mac compatible Adobe AIR app
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Jul 14, 2008 at 7:57am
TokBox has launched a new, downloadable Adobe AIR application called TokBox for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It will allow users to leverage all of TokBox’s video calling features even without being on the site.
With the new TokBox AIR users get immediate notification when someone is calling, enables them to call or video mail anyone including their IM friends, and always be available for calls. TokBox AIR is a free download.
Adobe AIR enables developers to create RIAs on the desktop using the skills and Web technologies—such as HTML, Ajax, PDF, Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex—they already employ, according to Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s chief technology officer. Applications deployed on Adobe AIR have the advantages of browser-based RIAs, such as speed of development, ease of use, and access from virtually anywhere, he adds. Yet they also have the benefits of desktop applications, such as the ability to read/write local files, work with other applications on a user’s computer and maintain local data storage on the desktop, Lynch says.
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