This is one of those life changing moments. Get ready.
One of the computing trends that I’ve been somewhat skeptical about is web-based applications replacing desktop applications. My biggest issue is that it’s a total hassle to keep track of the browser windows that your applications are running in. I generally have several windows open, or worse, several windows full of several tabs and I can easily lose track of a browser-based application.
Desktop apps, on the other hand, have their spot in the dock. You can’t lose them.
Enter Fluid. It takes a web page and makes a mini application out of it and opens it up into a Single Site Browser, or SSB.
You can give it an icon and when you run it, it appears right in your dock like any other app. It effectively turns a website into a desktop application. Killer.
Can something so simple be the thing that makes web-based apps viable? To me, this may just be it.
So how does it look? Here, I’ve made a few of these Fluid apps for Basecamp, Campfire, and Jangro.com. 
And each app doesn’t seem to take any more system resources than just another tab in Safari.
Feel free to grab my smiling face over there on the right for your own Fluid App use. You know you want to.
OK, seriously, if you’re an OS X user, get it. You will never be the same.
