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With many thanks to Oliver Goldman from the Adobe AIR Engineering, I’ve finally solved my problem. Quoted from his email, here’s how you uninstall Adobe AIR if it does not appear in the Add/Remove Programs control panel:

Download the latest installer and then pass it the "-uninstall" flag from the command line, like so:

AdobeAIRInstaller.exe -uninstall

After uninstalling it successfully, I re-installed again and now, the "Adobe AIR" sits in the Add/Remove Programs list. I assume any last remnants of any Apollo runtime had been uninstalled as well. Coolness~

I’m shouting "help" here, so if anybody knows the answer to my hair-pulling problem, please save me. How I land myself in this situation may or may not be important, so unless inquired, let’s skip it for now.

The methods to uninstall AIR/Apollo as described in the AIR release notes doesn’t work for me, why? Because in my Add or Remove Programs control panel, there is neither "Adobe Apollo 1.0 Alpha1", nor "Adobe AIR 1.0 Beta 1" nor "Adobe AIR"!

Now, just how do you uninstall Adobe AIR when there is no such available option?

It’s hard not to notice the efforts that Adobe is pushing in the local community recently. So here’s one more that adds to that list.

This year’s code::XtremeApps:: is focused on extending RIAs for use on the desktop through using the recently out-of-beta Adobe AIR. Get into teams of 1-3 now and register for this 24-hour round-the-clock coding competition!

Fret not if you have not used Adobe AIR before, as training sessions will be provided. Furthermore, there’s still plenty of time till then to get your feet wet with it.

If you feel the adrenaline rush and can’t wait to find out more about Adobe AIR, there’s a great article, Get up to speed on Adobe AIR, in this month’s Adobe Edge Newsletter.

Register early to avoid disappointment.

More information about this competition can be found here and here.

The Adobe AIR Developer Derby had officially closed on September 5. Although I’ve yet to take a detailed look around the community for projects that were submitted for it, I believe that this project is worthy to take a serious look.

AirTalkr is an Instant Messaging(IM) client which aggregates other IM services like MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk, AOL and ICQ. In addition, it has the ability to connect to Flickr to search and browse for photos, and YouTube to watch videos.

While the aforementioned sounds like regular features that many other IM services may provide, AirTalkr comes bundled with a (killer) feature that other services does not provide. It introduces the AirCard, which is a profiling system that allows you to read your buddies’ updated Twitter messages and blog entries, see their Flickr photos, and view their profile on social networking websites like MySpace and Friendster! Wow what a mouthful!

So why is that great? Well, through using the AirCard, I have updated information of my buddies, and more importantly, I discovered more details of their information on this vast Web 2.0 world, all in the same place! Now that’s something that money can’t buy, because it’s free!

With that, I term AirTalkr as a serious contender for this competition. It’s obvious that a lot of thought and love went into the development of this project, and with such a breakthrough feature of the AirCard, I expect many other IM services to mimic.

Try it now!

I’ve read from Daniel Dura’s post yesterday that there’s a new AIR Pocket Guide book for JavaScript Developers on Amazon.

Well, just a day later, I saw this post from ajaxian.com that they have the book for download, FOC!

Get it here!