Bring a web application closer to the desktop via Prism
Although not necessarily a blog topic of choice I couldn’t resist myself to not introduce Mozilla’s Firefox latest extension for “Prism”. This little add-on allows you to convert a website to a desktop application in a matter of a couple of clicks. The web applications that immediately came to mind included Google Apps, Facebook and YouTube. So I went ahead, downloaded the add-on from here and installed it on my Firefox browser (currently running Firefox 3.5b4 on my MAC OS X). From here it’s pretty straight forward, you browse to the site you want to convert as a desktop...
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