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Hi, I'm a worker of Lex Friedman. Much obliged to you for going along with me for this Macworld Introduction Video.

I utilize Gmail for my email, yet I don't associate with Gmail utilizing Mail, Mailplane, Outlook, Sparrow, or another devoted email customer of that write. Rather, I utilize fluid.

Fluid is an application from engineer Todd Ditchendorf. It enables you to transform web applications into Mac applications, by making something many refer to as Web Browser - or SSB. SSB, as the full name infers, is the independent program that is indicating a solitary page or URL.

So with liquid, I get a standard symbol in my Dock for Gmail and it focuses to the Gmail Web interface that I'm extremely acquainted with. Stunningly better, as should be obvious, Fluid is sufficiently brilliant to try and exploit genuine Mac application usefulness like badging the Dock symbol, so I can rapidly perceive what number of new messages are required. my consideration.

Here's the means by which to begin.

To start with, downloading the Fluid application from the fluidapp.com URL isn't an amazement. It's a free download, despite the fact that there is a choice to redesign $ 5, we'll proceed onward to the following area.

When you have introduced Fluid, dispatch the application. You simply fill in four fields, and three of them are simple. For URLs, enter the connection you use to get to Gmail in the Web program. For the majority of us, it's Gmail.com; If you utilize Google Apps, that deliver might be novel to your organization or association. Your most solid option is to get to your email in the Web program you pick, at that point reorder the URL into Fluid.

For names, obviously, enter the name you need to reference your email account by. I really utilize two Fluid applications for Gmail; one for my own email and one for my Macworld.com address, so I named another individual and Macworld.

The area just alludes to where Fluid will put your up and coming application; App appears like an incredible place for me. You can, obviously, physically move the application, you ought to choose it has a place with somewhere else.

The symbol is most likely the hardest piece of this setup, and truth be told it's not very muddled. The default alternative is to utilize the site's favicon - it's a little symbol that shows up in the URL bar of your program when you visit the site being referred to. That would be fine if the quality was a bit lower than the conventional Mac symbol. In any case, in my trial, Fluid does not appear to pull down the privilege Gmail symbol - so you will be left with the old exhausting Mac application symbol on the off chance that you take after that course.

Luckily, the Internet offers a humiliation of the rich Gmail symbol, ideal for use with Fluid. A famous Flickr assemble sharing incredible Fluid symbols and Googling for the "Gmail Fluid symbol" will likewise enable you to find a heap of different sources.

Discover an application you like, download and direct Fluid toward your pictures. At that point tap the Create catch and you are cooking with gas.

Presently you can dispatch recently made and blasting applications - Gmail is accessible to you as a remain solitary application. You can change to the application as you would some other application, regardless of whether through Command-Tab, Mission Control, Spotlight, or some other means.

Obviously, you can make a Fluid application for any website page. I utilize one for Google Calendar and some utilization them for Facebook, YouTube, Google Reader and some different locales.

Is that $ 5 fluid permit that we said before? It enables you to isolate the application treats from Fluid, which means you can sign in to two separate records, for instance, on Facebook - one in Safari, another in Fluid. You can likewise make applications that lone work in the menu bar, not in the Dock. What's more, you can likewise run your Fluid applications as a genuine full screen application in Lion.

Regardless of whether you pick up to $ 5 for extra highlights, Fluid gives an extraordinary method to transform your locales into independent Mac applications.

That is it for the video this week. I'm Lex Friedman - much obliged for viewing.