Vitalist + Fluid on the Mac
January 7th, 2009 / 2 Comments
Just wanted to let everyone know about a neat new app I have started using recently to make it super easy to access Vitalist on my Mac. Thanks to Brian for pointing Fluid out to us. With Fluid you can create a ‘Site Specific Browser’ for Vitalist to act like a launch-able application.
The setup I like to use is the “MenuExtra SSB” option pointed at Vitalist’s new iPhone version. This allows me to quickly access the lightweight iPhone interface just by clicking on the Vitalist icon on the menu bar.
To set this up:
- Download and open Fluid
- Create an SSB with the URL of ‘http://www.vitalist.com/i’ and name it ‘Vitalist iPhone’
- Click Create and click Launch Now
- Under the ‘Vitalist iPhone’ menu, select ‘Convert to MenuExtra SSB’
This should put the Vitalist icon in your menu bar. When you click the icon, the Vitalist iPhone interface should pop-up. Hope you Mac users can find this useful.
From Kristen on January 28th, 2009
GENIUS! Thanks a MILLION!
From Jesus Porven on March 15th, 2009
Juts a quick note to let you know PC users can do the same thing via the Mozilla project’s Prism or even better, using Google’s Chrome browser. Chrome supports “application shortcuts”. Almost any web application can be given its own standalone window.
See: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95710
This is a great way to organize your daily web apps like vitalist and gmail. Their windows get grouped together in the taskbar for easy locating and best yet, if your regular browser crashes while surfing your standalone windows are unaffected thanks to chrome running each standalone window individually.