Chris Baskind

twhirl is the only AIR app I've seen worth using but I really like it - tsudohnimh

I've played the both Twhirl and Feedalizr a bit, but always seem to drift back to web interfaces. Among other things, it lets me juice the font sizes a bit -- which i need these days. - Chris Baskind

Twhirl is the first I've used. It's not ideal. Adobe has a long way to go to make them less crappy on OS X. - Bjorn Tipling

And I *am* trying to use AIR from OS X. Good call. - Chris Baskind

Twhirl was the only one I could stand -- but only for Twitter. Now I'm trying out TweetDeck - Shey

I think they're the sexiest apps for windows :D - Corvida via twhirl

I don't think it's AIR itself that's the problem - a lot of the web enabled apps that have been programed with it lately just aren't that great. So far, for me, only Twhirl, Snitter, and TweetDeck are exceptions to this. - Frederic

Tried 3 or 4 Air apps, in each case I bailed out, even though they were OK or OK+. I prefer to work independently of which computer I am physically using. - ron k jeffries

@chrisbaskind, ditto - "Czar" DJ Peterman

I have to agree, I haven't stuck with any AIR apps either - Justin Yost

I do like twhirl, but haven't had much success with others... - Jeff McIntire-Strasburg

Twhirl on OS X uses more resources (memory, processing) than Firefox. I wonder if multiple AIR apps running simultaneously will be able to share those resources effectively. Otherwise, I don't see how RIAs will become successful. - scott anderson

Scott, what's your specs, because on both my Mac's Twhirl doesn't even show up in the top 5 memory users where as FF is always on top. Maybe it's just me, but I've got no issues with AIR apps aside from some of them being a little wide on my screen. Twhirl, Plurkair, Alerththingy, Feedalizer are all usable apps. - Duncan Riley

I tried several Air apps too, and they were either buggy and/or slowed down my computer to a crawl, which is also buggy come to think of it. - Kambiz Kamrani

I use Adobe AIR on Linux, which could be part of the problem. I really cannot stand AIR apps. Really. It's just that they are so out of place and weird. - possible248

@Duncan I've got an intel MacBook Pro w/ 2GB RAM. When I look at Activity Monitor Twhirl is typically higher than Firefox in %CPU, Real Memory, and Virtual memory. - scott anderson