Digital Dadaism

Appcelerator Titanium fills the same purpose as AIR, it’s a “platform for building rich desktop applications using web technologies like HTML, CSS, Javascript as well as Flash and Silverlight”. And it’s open source.

For me personally, the open source aspect is not paramount in itself, but hopefully it can help in overcoming some of the shortcomings of AIR, like integration with other applications. 

An AIR app cannot launch other applications or execute command line commands. It’s understandable why Adobe would want to leave that out for security reasons. Titanium does neither, in its current only a couple of days old pre-release version, but hopefully such capabilities will be added. 

I like that applications created with Titanium are packaged as stand-alone executables, as opposed to the AIR model where the end user has to install the AIR framework before the app can be used.

Speaking of digital, this one I acctually did back in the 80’s by taking an analog photo of the TV screen, since I had no way to digitize TV or video back then:

Poor audio quality but great looking. Click this one, have patience and get to see 547 different looks:

http://www.digitaldadaism.com/kekkonen/