Filed under: Software
Flickr Find: the Fluid icons pool
The team down the road from me at Carsonified have been doing it, and you can do it too.
Fluid is a fantastic free app that turns any web site into a self-contained application on your Mac. If you want to keep your webmail outside your normal web browser, Fluid is what you need.
Thing is, all the apps it creates need icons, just as any app in your Applications folder does. By default, Fluid grabs the .ico files it finds on web sites and uses them as icons, but they don't scale well. Where can you find decent alternatives?
The answer is the Fluid icons pool on Flickr, where a busy community of Fluid users have been busy making a selection of beautiful icons that work perfectly with any Fluid SSBs (Site-Specific Browsers) you've created. The icons in the pool might look weird to start with, but that's because the PNG originals have been converted to JPG format by Flickr's brain. To make use of an icon you like, make sure you view and download the full-size original, which will be the PNG file you need.
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Unregistered said 9:10PM on 7-29-2008
Whee! I'm gonna try this as soon as I get home and turn on my Mac!
Reply
Rick said 10:55PM on 7-29-2008
Isn't Safari 4 going to allow you to create SSBs?
Reply
DistortedLoop said 11:22PM on 7-29-2008
Yes, in theory Safari 4 will make SSBs, but Fluid is here, NOW, and it works flawlessly. When will S4 be here?
What are you waiting for?
I set up MobileMe in it's own SSB with Fluid, and it's just like having Outlook or any other PIM program, rather than using iCal, Mail, and Address Book as seperate apps.
Also very handy for logging into gmail in a Fluid app, without worry about Google tracking all my web activity in my Safari browsing.
w00t said 6:58AM on 7-30-2008
It's more than 'in theory', it's already in the code and it works great :)
KeynoteKen said 3:21AM on 7-30-2008
I was going to say instead of just looking for the .ico file, they could probably find a good quality apple-touch-icon.png file... only they already do that. Good show!
from the website
>choose from a custom local Icon, the WebApp's Favicon (or even the WebApp's "apple-touch-icon" if available)
Reply
Evan said 7:25PM on 8-16-2008
I love fluid i always use the HUD view because it reminds me that it is a web app
Reply