Fluid – websites as Mac apps

I’d heard mention of Fluid app in few recent articles, but hadn;t appreciated just how simple it would be to implement. As I’m now using Trello more in my home/side project planning, I thought I’d try Fluid to make Trello a more ‘direct’ part of my Mac use.

 

Fluid ‘turns your favourite apps into real mac apps’ : http://fluidapp.com/

Download for free (more features unlocked for $5).

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After installing, simply enter the URL to the site in question (first options for me were a specific Trello board, Google+, and Facebook)

Screen Shot 2013-05-16 at 08.56.34 Hey presto: you get a small stack of new apparent social apps:Screen Shot 2013-05-16 at 17.51.57

Which I added to my Automator with all of my usual Social Networks:

 

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I suspect when I look more into scripting I’ll find other ways of achieving the same – but for now, it’s yet another brilliant simple Mac workflow.