Tag: FLUID

I'm a longtime fan of Fluid, a Mac app that lets you easily set up site-specific browsers for your favorite webapp. In fact, I like it so much that I posted 10 web apps that work amazingly well as Fluid SSBs. Fluid may have just become even cooler, though, because developer Todd Ditchendorf has released all of the code for Fluid and announced that it's going entirely open source. If you're a ...

I love Instapaper, and I love keyboard shortcuts. Instapaper, if you haven't come across it, is a tool that allows you to use a special bookmarklet to mark articles online that you'd like to read later. It has a website that is optimized for reading your saved articles, as well as a very good iPhone app so you can read those articles when you're not at your computer. The website is quite good for ...

I've been using Fluid for a couple of years now to create site-specific browsers on my Mac for certain very useful web applications like Gmail, and Jay points out 10 web apps you should be running on your mac with Fluid. Though the current version of Fluid still works well, it hasn't updated in awhile and that got me curious as to what the developer behind Fuild, Todd Ditchendorf, was currently up ...

tweetmeme_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/11/03/10-web-apps-you-should-be-running-on-your-mac-with-fluid/'; tweetmeme_source = 'downloadsquad'; As web apps become more powerful, more popular, and more full-featured, they're starting to replace desktop apps for many people. A Mac app called Fluid can pull those web applications onto your desktop and turn them into OS X native ...

When a desktop app does something that needs your attention, you know about it because of system-wide notifications. With web apps, on the other hand, it's easy to miss something that happens when your apps are open in another window or tab. Yip aims to solve that problem by offering a unified web app notification system in Firefox. Yips is a Firefox port of the notification APIs from Fluid and ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/01/09/fluid-give-any-webapp-a-home-on-your-mac-os-x-desktop/";Do you have Gmail perma-tabbed in your browser window? Are you a Google Docs devotee? Is Facebook bookmarked as your home page? If you nodded your head to any of the above questions (or blushed in embarrassment from your web 2.0 addictions), then Fluid is something you should take a ...