Sunday, December 16, 2007
Run WriteMaps on the Desktop with “Fluid”
I came across a great application recently called "Fluid" (http://www.FluidApp.com) which lets you run your web applications like a standalone desktop app. You'll need Mac 0SX Leopard for it to work, but Fluid itself is free! After a quick install, it will prompt you for a website URL, and from that it will generate a Mac application and drop it in your applications folder. You can then drag it to the dock and use it like a normal Mac app, complete with all the benefits of expose! Here's a snapshot of WriteMaps in my dock:
By default, Fluid will use the favicon from the website as the application icon, but it's easy enough to replace the application icon by selecting the application, then getting info (command-i), and dragging a .icns file over its existing icon in the top left of the info window. If you use WriteMaps enough that you want to install it on your desktop using Fluid, here is a link to the .icns file you'll need for the application icon (Right-click the link and choose to download the file).
Posted by Scott on 12/16 at 07:58 PM
Comments
Scott,
Might want to check out Mozilla’s Prism as well.
Posted by Jeff L on 12/17 at 10:56 AM
Jeff,
Thanks for the link. Prism looks awesome as well. I had seen it a little while ago but am disappointed to see they had no Mac demo yet. I suppose I could install in parallels…
Posted by Scott on 12/17 at 11:04 AM
Scott,
Great app so far - Fluid seems very slow though so doesn’t seem that effective (might have just been my machine)
Cheers Rob
Posted by blueleaf on 12/19 at 05:59 AM