Robert Christensen explains that Adobe knows about the performance problems with AIR applications on MAC, it seems that Adobe is working on that.

This specific article has some tips on how to make your AIR applications run smoother and with the best performance possible.

Have a look.

Tips for Adobe AIR

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Adobe and Facebook get closer by creating a AS3 Library for Facebook, this will allow developers to create rich social web applications using Flash, Flex and AIR.

Adobe AIR Team Blog has all the details.

Learn how to display rich text inside of the Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5 runtimes, using the Text Layout Framework library for Adobe Flash Player 10 and Adobe AIR 1.5 with this Flex Developer Center article by Mihai Corlan.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Introducing the Text Layout Framework library
3. Understanding the components and capabilities
4. Example: Using the Text Layout Framework in Flex and AIR

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