The other day I attended an internal Flex user group meeting at Boeing. The noticed that throughout the meeting, the host was pasting TinyURLs into the chat window for the attendees to click on to various websites that were being discussed.

This instantly gave me an idea of an AIR app that would allow a user to drag and drop a URL from their browser onto the AIR application and have it retrieve a TinyURL. My main goal of this application, besides it usefulness, was to really show the rapid application development capabilities of Adobe Flex + AIR in creating a desktop application. As soon as I got home from work that day, I began working on it.

With about an hour development that day, and total of 1 hour of development the next day (Thanksgiving) I had a fully working AIR application that did exactly what I needed it to do. I am already finding it quite useful to use and am sure you will to. You may use the installer below if you would like to download and install the Adobe AIR Framework and TinyMe together:

Flash badge has been removed due to the new release of AIR Beta 3.

If the installer does not work, you may download Adobe AIR Beta 2. Once you have installed Adobe AIR Beta 2, you may download and install TinyMe.

UPDATE: Firefox 2 Mac does not work at this time with TinyMe. The issue with Firefox 2 on the Mac has been fixed.