Tag Archive for 'mac-os-x'

Prism vs Fluid: Local Web Application Management on Mac OS X

Basically it boils down to: Don’t use Prism. Yet. It crashes quite often, and not in the way you’d probably want it to crash: It just eats away at your processor until you realize that while you were listening to music on your headphones that the fans were going insane and the processor was running at 81 degrees. Celsius.

The OMFG screenshot came into being while I was testing out some Fluid Applications (The last three applications were Fluid Applications). It’s been a while since I used it, but it looks like it’s getting better and better. A lot of great things in the horizon… but it’s too bad it isn’t open sourced (See Post Here). I’d love to start messing around with the guts…

More about Fluid

But anyway, it looks great, and feels even better. I love being able to command+tab into a web application. Not only that, I can even see some statuses on the desktop icon itself.

Fluidapp Desktop Icon Notifcation

But of course, the nerdy neat freak in me decided to figure things out over lunch and see if there was a way to change the icons to look a bit better. I don’t really thing a 16×16 pixel icon would do in an Apple environment… After poking at flickr a bit, I found these two lovely icons.

Gmail Icon

Gmail Icon at Flickr: Direct Link

Facebook Icon

Facebook Icon at Flickr: Direct Link

These are actual .icns files, rather than just images. Thanks to autodafe0728, I was able to make two of my most accessed Fluid app’s icon amazing.

How do you actually use these .icns files? Well, you have to pick an icon when you create your Fluid app, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to change it after you’ve created it. So if you already have one, delete it, and just remake this new one after setting the “Icon: ” field to the .icns file rather than the default “Use Website Favicon”.

Enjoy. More on this web application vs. desktop application business later.

Posts that Didn’t Quite Make It

Here’s a quick list of posts that just didn’t make the cut in the past couple of days. It’ll be quick and painless. Skim, please.

Zooom: Increase Window Functionality in Mac OS X

Zooom: Window Stuff, “Done Right” Try it out. I think I might be purchasing this soon.

CommunityNext: Threadless.com Presentation

Yet another video I won’t be able to watch until after lent… this list is getting longer really fast.

Sitting Apparatus: Ergonomic?

In the Year 2000...

I purchased this ball in hopes to alleviate some of the back issues I’ve been having. (On second thought… it might be because of the messed up way I lift, but I’m still trying to figure this out…) That, and the table (pictured) was designed for tall(er) people: That keyboard drawer was most likely designed for a footrest, or something like that. Even with this 65 cm ball, my arms are not resting at my side as they should be.

And if all fails, I could just use it as an exercise tool at home. Hooray!

(Yeah, I know… exercise balls are kinda feminine, no?)

Future of MP3?

Seriously… patent law reform, anybody?

Apple, Samsung, Sandisk sued by Texas MP3 Technologies

Microsoft sued by Alcatel-Lucent for $1.5 billion

Current Status: Awake

It’s late. Like… freshman-year-coding-insanity late… I just ended up cleaning my bathroom for the strangest reason (at least I’ll wake up to a beautiful bathroom tomorrow morning).

Not sure why, but my schedule is off. It’s like… there is no consistency at all. While there is a consistency to what I have to get DONE in a day, the order is just all out of whack. Not sure if this is a bad thing, but it’s not making ultra-planned Josh Kim not a happy man. Maybe super-chill Josh Kim will take over, instead.

I haven’t had one of those long-drawn out personal posts in a while… and while I feel like I have one in me, I’m going to keep avoiding it like the plague. One of these days, though… it’ll just leak out, and I won’t have any control of it.

Oh, right. A new goal: For every personal post, I MUST post a web/technology related post before it. It’s not like I’m running out of web/tech posts, so I won’t be having a problem posting personal stuff.

Okay, here it comes… the brain dump.

Today was insane. I got up, only to realize I didn’t leave my dryer on as I should have. Got into work a little bit later. Skipped lunch. Went to ISR to finish up work. Met up with Mike Cho for the studying/working. Met up with small group for Bible reading. Went to WIMPE until close.

I have a feeling tomorrow is going to be just as insane. Hopefully, this time, I’ll pack a lunch.

State of my heart? HAHA. You’ll be needing to pay for a meal for that one… and a coffee afterwards… to just START talking about this one. Hopefully, I’ll be getting around to the continuation of those entries