I just stumbled upon (not with StumbleUpon, by the way) the Microsoft Press Pass image gallery and it’s chock-full of wonderfully hi-res product shots, box shots, official portraits, and other miscellaneous company images.
Almost every image is available in 72dpi and 320dpi formats. FANTASTIC!
Increasingly we are all using rich internet applications - be it Facebook, gmail, Pandora or the dozens of others out there. However the downside is that you still have to get to them on a browser - wouldn’t it be great if you could experience an RIA as a full on desktop application. Well you can through an application called Fluid and its model of Site Specific Browsers (SSBs) which provide a great solution for your WebApp experience. Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate Cocoa desktop application. Fluid gives any WebApp a home on your Mac OS X desktop complete with Dock icon, standard menu bar, logical separation from your other web browsing activity.
It is a small application that you basically type in the URL’s you want to link to and it does the rest. It is a really great app. and a very interesting take on how to integrate a web app. into a desktop experience. BTW - it is only a MAC experience for now.
Check it out at: http://fluidapp.com/
