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laterstars + fluid.app
So laterstars got an awesome review from MacStories the other day, and in it Federico mentioned that it was a perfect candidate to use with Fluid.app to have a dedicated app open at all times like you would an RSS reader. I had been thinking about doing something with this eventually, but this spurred me on to seeing if I could bang it out real quick.
First off, I wanted to have the dock icon show the inbox unread links count, similar to an email or RSS app. Fluid provides a nice Javascript API for doing this type of thing, so I hooked up a quick way to get that count as JSON and created a MooTools class to start wrapping all this Fluid stuff up. Setting the badge count is easy, so that was done.
Obviously I have some links to check out.
Next, I knew that Fluid let you add custom dock menu items, so I added the main navigational items, as well as a quick way to log out.
Finally, I knew that Fluid had some way of letting you tell it what icon to use automatically. I did a bit of poking around and found the right link to put in the html head of all the pages. There were some early beta testers discussing a Fluid icon for laterstars, and @chrisherbert1 even made his own available for download, which was awesome. So I made one like his, just much larger since OS X supports gigantic icons.
Finally, to get the best use out of this set up, I made some tweaks to the app’s preferences. First off, I set it so it could browse to any URL, which is necessary to log in, as well as to follow the links within the app itself.
Finally, I tweaked the behaviors prefs to make all the links I click (or, actually, open with the ‘v’ key) open in a new tab within the Fluid app itself) by making the “Sites spawning new windows open in new tabs instead.”
That’s about it. Now, I have a dedicated laterstars app with my unread inbox count, a nice icon, that’s completely self-contained and always available. Hope you enjoy, and let me know if you have any questions!
Tags: laterstars mac
I saw these guys last year. It was awesome.
At The Gates - “Slaughter Of The Soul” (Live, 2008)
Damn. Not bad for old guys.
It is not certain what band originally started the Gothenburg sound, however, it is widely accepted that Dark Tranquillity, At the Gates, and In Flames are three major pioneers of the style; however history yields that At the Gates began playing a much more contemplative and “Neoclassical” style of death metal in their early years, very comparable to the Finnish act Demilich. It wasn’t until their later albums (Slaughter of the Soul being the most commercially known) when the Gothenburg sound was recaptured.
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Coding Horror: Treating User Myopia
(via Gruber — I swear we have separate sites, really)
The plain fact is users will not read anything you put on the screen.
This is one of the many reasons why Windows 7 is so mediocre. The interface is smothered with explanatory text. (Was Vista as bad in that regard? I never used it.)
Microsoft’s typical response to bad designs is to add text to explain them. Then, when that doesn’t work, add a text-heavy dialog box to ensure that the user noticed the other text. (I will never stop laughing at that dialog.)
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