Install Web Sites as an Application with Fluid

1:39 PM EDT Monday, April 28 2008

There is a pretty cool Mac OS X application called Fluid. What it allows you to do is run a web site as if it were an application installed on your system. The end result:

All those web sites you are logged into on a daily basis show up as separate icons in the dock. For some sites, like Gmail and Google Reader, it shows a label with the count of unread items. It doesn't come will all those nifty icons, you kind of have to scour the web for them. Here's where I found those:

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1. hey Paul, I've been using Prism (a Mozilla-based project) for this same purpose and it works great. It's really good for things like Google Apps, where I have a couple of different accounts; since each Prism app has its own set of cookies, this lets me stay logged-in to all my accounts. Will definitely check this out though as it seems a lot farther along than Prism. (http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/)

# Posted By Mike Subelsky on Tuesday, April 29 2008 at 09:05 EDT

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