PaulBarry.com - Install Web Sites as an Application with FluidMy thoughts, ideas, questions and concerns on technology, sports, music and lifetag:paulbarry.com,2007:Paulbarry.comPaulBarry.com2008-11-08T03:47:10-05:00Paul Barrymail@paulbarry.comurn:uuid:69a8effa-ffc7-4baa-947e-228dd44ed0c72008-04-28T13:39:31-04:002008-04-28T13:39:31-04:00Install Web Sites as an Application with Fluid<p>There is a pretty cool Mac OS X application called <a href="http://fluidapp.com/">Fluid</a>. What it allows you to do is run a web site as if it were an application installed on your system. The end result:</p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3232/2448932311_cc06f3cae5_o.png"/></p>
<p>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:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://csi.nfshost.com/blog/?q=goodies">Gmail and Facebook</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jvstin.deviantart.com/art/Google-Reader-icon-80952222">Google Reader</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.iconspedia.com/icon/flickr.html">Reddit and del.icio.us</a></li>
</ul>
<p>There is a pretty cool Mac OS X application called <a href="http://fluidapp.com/">Fluid</a>. What it allows you to do is run a web site as if it were an application installed on your system. The end result:</p>
<p><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3232/2448932311_cc06f3cae5_o.png"/></p>
<p>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:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://csi.nfshost.com/blog/?q=goodies">Gmail and Facebook</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jvstin.deviantart.com/art/Google-Reader-icon-80952222">Google Reader</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.iconspedia.com/icon/flickr.html">Reddit and del.icio.us</a></li>
</ul>
Mike Subelskyurn:uuid:bc669b7d-f4f1-44c3-8863-7c67ea1ba1f92008-04-29T21:05:07-04:002008-04-29T21:05:07-04:00Comment on "Install Web Sites as an Application with Fluid" by Mike Subelskyhey 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/)