Adobe blurs the line between on and offline

I and many other people often have the problem of opening applications which need an internet connection offline. However a new program released by Abobe called AIR will promise to solve this. Someone who wants to put an item up for bid on eBay, for example, could fill out the form through the AIR software while the PC isn’t connected to the Web. The software would automatically post the information to eBay the next time the computer is connected to the Internet.
However Abobe is not the only one who has tried to do this, Google, Microsoft and others have also attempted this as well. That’s because while online software has a number of advantages – there’s nothing for customers to install, it’s accessible from any computer and it’s usually faster to develop – it also has one big disadvantage: You need to be connected to the Internet to use it.