Apple fans will love one of the latest tips from our community: how to turn your Movable Type blog into a seamless extension of your OS X desktop and operating system. In the first article Jesse Gardner explains how one can combine two technologies to create an awesome desktop blogging application: Movable Type and Fluid.
Fluid makes it possible to turn any online application into a desktop app. Its free and dead-simple to use. Jesse and others use it for example to put GMail, Basecamp, Google Calendar, Flickr, Facebook and many other online applications right into their OS X dock.
What makes Movable Type and Fluid work especially well together is the iMT plugin, which provides a beautifully designed user interface specifically for iPhone users. Coupled with Fluid's ability to let any application it bootstraps to masquerade as an iPhone, Fluid can be used to bring all the benefits of the dramatically simplified iPhone user interface of the iMT plugin right to your desktop. And because iMT conforms to Apple's own interface conventions and aesthetics, your Movable Type desktop client could not feel like a more natural extension of your Mac OS X environment.
softwaremac on July 14, 2012, 5:42 a.m. Reply
Movable Type and Fluid… good torque!
Norma Gr. on July 30, 2012, 8:52 p.m. Reply
Are you going to do something similar to that for users who uses Microsoft mobile?
Support OmniTech on December 18, 2012, 3:35 a.m. Reply
That’s something great to hear. My laptop is Apple, so I can make use of this new invention. The picture you have given about the desktop looks really cool. I loved the clarity of it. Thanks for providing such a great application