How to turn your favorite web services into full-fledged desktop applications

Web applications have long replaced the majority of my work program. I have no e-mail client and the mail I'm reading and Gmail's web interface. Microsoft Office has been supplanted by Google Docs. All processes "buffer Bay" with the team we manage using again Basecamp web application Highrise,... And there's Facebook, Twitter and other web services, in which we work and conduct of the leisure. In native applications, there is one undeniable feature - they are integrated into the system, have the system notifkatsii - each program with its degree of depth this very integration.

With the help of a multi-platform utility Fluid we can convert popular web services in full (or almost ponotsennye) application integration in the system who are working with the standard for notification OS systems.

This is how, for example, to create apps for using Gmail.

1. Run installed Fluid.

2. We introduce a very simple application details - URL and name in the system.

3. Click Create!

The app appears in the list of programs:

He will counter unread messages. However, "out of the box" is not working drag-n-drop, and I could not ask crafted application default email client.

Still at Fluid has a paid version for $ 5, which may be the following:

Windows users can take advantage of a similar program Prism, which is described in one of our reviews.

Fluid for mac OSX