Turn Your Favorite Rich Internet App Into A Desktop App
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/
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