About Me

Open Parenthesis is a blog about free and open source software, next generation internet strategy, and the assembled web, written by John Eckman (me).

John Eckman

I'm a Sr. Director at Optaros, a professional services firm offering strategy, design, development, and consulting services to enterprises interested in leveraging free and open source software.

Optaros Labs

More about me

More About Open Parenthesis

Contact Me

Optaros

Travel

 

Upcoming Conferences

Gilbane Boston

Web Content 2009

SXSW Interactive, 2009

My Tweets

Powered by Twitter Tools.

Optaros Blogs
Creative Commons
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Posts Tagged ‘mac os’

March 4, 2008

Fluid - like Prism, but webkit based (Mac OS X only)

Tagged with: , , , , , , , — John @ 9:29 am

While watching James Walker talk about OpenID and user management in Drupal, I checked out his blog (and subscribed, on the basis of recent posts).

One of his recent posts was on Fluid: Desktop Web Apps.

If you’re a Mac user (right now this is Mac OS X 10.5 or greater app) and you rely on web based applications, you’ve got to check it out at fluidapp.com.

Dock with Fluid Icons

It’s webkit based, but otherwise like Prism or Adobe AIR in letting you create a desktop-app like presence for a web app - a single purpose embedded browser with a doc icon, notifications, and other OS level features.

It’s free (as in beer) but not open source (as in freedom).