There are some websites like Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, and others that you might want to run in their own application. I know that it might be more convenient for me to have a Gmail app rather than using Safari or setting up Apple's Mail to access it. The companies that provide these services don't provide a desktop app, but they do provide a web interface. That is where Fluid comes in. Fluid allows you to be able to take that web interface and use it in its own application. You can make an application for any website and it will run just like any other native application on your computer. This is a nice seamless way to integrate online services into your everyday suit of applications. Watch the video below to find out how to set this up. Feel free to comment.

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Comment by Steven Attaway on February 24, 2010 at 5:16pm: you can correct me if I'm wrong but havent you alway been able to do a form of this by just making a bookmark, and then just moving it out of the bookmark folder and onto the desktop or whereever.

Comment by Justen on February 24, 2010 at 10:01am: You know, Google Chrome has been able to do this since 1.0. Go to the Page menu, click "Create application shortcuts...", voila. Done. It is a *great* idea mind you, just not novel - and it works horribly in Linux last time I tried, which bears mentioning (though Chromium is still alpha in Linux).

Comment by Steven Attaway on February 24, 2010 at 6:01am: So basically this program makes a glorified bookmark and post it on your desktop or whereever I want it to go. No offense, but this seems like the biggest waste of time.

Comment by Computerwhiz1 on February 22, 2010 at 4:20pm: No, but Mozilla (the people who make firefox) have something similar. I beleve it is called prism. It runs on Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux

Comment by Thomas Byron on February 22, 2010 at 12:31pm: Does this work for Windows?

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