The latest find is a program called "Fluid." Fluid is a site-specific browser that basically allows you to turn any website into a "program" on your computer.
Take sites like Grooveshark.com (my favorite online music service) for example. They offer a desktop client for their service, but only for "V.I.P." members that pay. Not me. Instead, all I have to do is open up Fluid, type in "grooveshark.com," and click OK and let it create a Grooveshark "App" on my computer! Now all I do is open that application and a little window opens up with grooveshark.com already in it! Magic.
Simple, but handy. I recently found an online tournament manager to use in our game room, but didn't want to have to browse to the site and log in every time we had a tournament. Now all I do it double-click the "Tournament Manager" icon on the desktop and up it comes!
If you don't have a Mac, Google Chrome offers a similar feature with their "Application Shortcut" option or you can use Mozilla Prism. If you use a certain website often (Facebook, anyone?) you might try giving this a shot!
MS
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