Adobe decided to take a modern spin on traditional, paper, “picture of the day” calendars with the “Places I’d Rather Be” calendar widget. It’s a simple application that you can install on your computer that shows a different beautiful photo from locations around the world for every day of 2009. It also lets you drag in and caption your own photos and make notes on any day. The program runs on OS X, Windows and Linux using Adobe’s AIR runtime and I put it all together using Adobe Flash working with a great group of people from Receiver Studio and G2 in San Francisco and New York. The project was a lot of fun to work on since developing a desktop widget is a departure from the online work I normally do.
Great application! One suggestion would be to deploy your application using an install badge. For more information, see: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/badger_for_air_apps.html
Keep up the great work!
-Rob
Product Manager, Adobe AIR
Posted by Rob Christensen on January 5th, 2009.
Hi Rob, thanks for the suggestion. I’ll check out the install badge. It does seem like seem like a much more elegant solution for installation.
Posted by Mark Celsor on January 5th, 2009.
Hey Mark,
I attempted to download the calendar today, but I am getting a 404 error. Did the file get removed?
Thanks, Justin
Posted by JustinACG on June 22nd, 2009.
Hi Justin,
Thanks for pointing out the broken link on their site. I believe this was a short term campaign so the site may not be maintained anymore. I’ll remove the link on my side for the time being and see if I’m able to post the files directly.
Posted by Mark Celsor on June 29th, 2009.