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June 03, 2008
Pandora Desktop with Adobe AIR
My favorite music browsing/listening service, Pandora, just released a beta desktop client... and it's built using Adobe AIR. Sweet! Yet another example of how easily you can move from web to desktop using AIR. As Pandora was always Flash-based, it's not a surprising move (and the design/look/feel is pretty much just like the site so not a huge jump forward in functionality), but a welcome move nonetheless- I'm not a fan of listening from my browser and much prefer the OS X dock controls the AIR desktop client provides. You can read more about the desktop beta at the Pandora team blog, and download/install the desktop beta here.
Posted by sfegette at June 3, 2008 06:52 PM
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Take a look at the CPU utilization of Pandora when using Air. Minimized it is about 50% of a 2.4GHz proc (MacBook Pro). The other alternatives run around five to ten percent when minimized. I think I will let it run in Firefox for a while instead, I can't think of a time when I had a network connection and did not have Firefox open anyway.
Take Care,
Dan
Posted by: Dan at July 21, 2008 04:52 PM