Darryl Taft has a cool write up of the bus tour and lots of good quotes from Mike Chambers. We’re getting ready to roll again (I fly out to New York on Saturday) for the last leg of the tour. The New York City and Toronto events are sold out and the other cities are filling up quickly. When it’s all done we’re rolling into MAX and getting ready to show off everything Adobe’s been working on this year. Should be a lot of fun.

Joe Johnston recently took the Ribbit component and added to the iPhone application he’s been building with Adobe AIR. The Ribbit component supports making or receiving phone calls directly from the Flash Player. Because AIR has all the capabilities of the player, Joe was able to take the component and add it to his pre-existing code to give it functionality.

Check out the YouTube videos here and here. Keep in mind this is all just AIR and Flash.

Andre Charland was feeling a little bit of Mac-envy while on the bus tour so he deiced to take his Ajax skills and Adobe AIR and do something about it. The result was a Mac dock that uses Nitobi’s Fish Eye Component.

You’ll notice that a lot of the icons in the screenshot point to web applications which I thought was funny/ironic. The Nitobi guys do a lot of their work using web apps but for something like a launcher, AIR gave them what they wanted on the desktop.

This isn’t what I would consider the ideal use case for AIR, but it’s a cool demo and it does bridge the web and the desktop.