Using Menu Extra SSB’s for Better Productivity
Posted June 29th, 2009 / By Chad Engle in Apps, Desktop, Featured, Freebies, Reviews, Tools, Top Apps, Web, iPhone
I did a light review of Fluid App earlier in our site and I am going to expand on what I use Fluid for on a daily basis. Fluid is a Mac app that allows you to turn a webpage into its own application. This is great for things like gmail, facebook, twitter, Basecamp, Mint, Google Analytics and Google Reader to name just a few the possiblities with this app are honestly endless. Today we are goingt look into the Menu Extra SSB which lets you make an app that resides in your menu bar.
I have setup multiple apps that I run like this but one of my favorites is Instapaper. If you’re like me you have 65 tabs open in your browser and you sometimes need to clear those out and check them later. Instapaper is an app that lets you add the links to their service through an applet and then you can look at them later. Great! So now I can get rid of my 65 tabs in firefox and be more productive because I don’t have all of these other distractions.
Video How-To
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Resources
Instapaper
Fluid App
Instapaper Restyled
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Great use of fluid! But an easier way is to install this firefox plugin.
http://www.ideashower.com/ideas/launched/read-it-later/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7661
cheers
Thats another way to do it. You miss the iPhone integration that way thought and I already have more than enough tabs/add-ons in firefox. But, a good tip none the less :)
I love fluid and use instapaper. Thanks for this tutorial, I have this setup on all my computers now! Woo!
“Read It Later for the iPhone/iPod Just released!” ;-)
Twitter integration? :) haha. Thanks for the tip!