Fluid on Mac
August 29th, 2008 • Apple, Blog, Web
If you’re a Mac user and an avid consumer of web applications (Flickr, Delicious, Basecamp, Netvibes, Gmail, etc, just to name a few) then you’ll problably be happy to install Fluid.
Fluid is a small application for the Mac which enables you to create Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) for your most used web applications. That means they will run as if they were a stand alone application on your Mac with it’s own desktop icon, menubar, etc.
You can even leave it the dock for easy access to your app, so give Fluid a try, it’s free. There’s even a Flickr Group full of icons for your dock.
Note: If you’re using Windows I guess you could try Prism from Mozilla Labs.
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thanks for the tips.
For gmail maybe but on work I used to have a app just for basecamp and another just for google docs so that they were isolated from the other browsing windows.
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Prism is also available for Mac OS, I use it for gmail.
I just love the fact that you can develop a web app and completely hide that huge detail to most inexperienced users :).
It’s specially useful if you want to hide browser functionality from the users. -
Interesting to know.
windows: or bubbles – bubbleshq.com
Anyways, me thinks this is useless and a waste of resources, either use mail.app, or simple the gmail notifier+growl, it’s ubber fast to load gmail after clicking the notification.