Posts under Tag: fluid
You Call This Targeted?
Ads by Google, in Google Reader

I’ve noticed lately that while reading my set of RSS feeds I’m getting lots of ads that I don’t consider well targeted at me as a vegan: I’m reading feeds in a site-specific browser using Fluid, which means in essence I’m reading them in a browser using Google Reader. The ads are clearly powered by Google Ad Sense, but look [...]

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Stupid Browser Tricks
Instant Rimshot, Sad Trombone

Site Specific Browsers, or SSBs, are  a relatively new concept in which you basically create an application which is designed just to browse to a particular website. It gets its own icon, memory space, set of cookies, and the like, so you can treat it just like an application. The best SSB creator, at the moment, is Fluid for Mac [...]

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