Mahalo Application via Fluid
Eliot mentioned Fluid to me the other day, and then yesterday, it popped up in my regular feed reading. Fluid is a SSB, or single-site browser:
Using Fluid, you can create SSBs to run each of your favorite WebApps as a separate 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, and many other goodies.
So far, using Fluid, I’ve created a Mahalo app and a Gmail app. It’s all tweakable too:
Fluid includes Tabbed Browsing, built-in Userscripting (aka Greasemonkey), URL pattern matching for browsing whitelists and blacklists, bookmarks, auto-software updates via the Sparkle Update framework, custom SSB icons, a JavaScript API for showing dock badges, Growl notifications, and Dock Menu Items, and more.
The Mahalo Application is pretty cool, because you can enable a CoverFlow-esque feature to preview all the links on a page. Also, any link that is not internal to Mahalo itself opens in your default browser, so Mahalo is always there, open and running as a reference point. Here’s a screenshot:
I’ve just started tinkering with it; If you’re on a Mac running OS X 10.5, you really should check this out. But enough of these silly words… Here’s a video explaining how Fluid works:
Fluid Thumbnail Plug-in | http://fluidapp.com from Todd Ditchendorf on Vimeo.
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April 20th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
wonder if apple is going to mind?
music in that video is *too* much!
April 20th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Apple won’t mind. It’s a built-in extensible part of the OS that this app plugs into, so no worries there.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
ok, this is cool