Friday, August 9, 2013

FLUID - Websites into Mac Apps

I develop applications for Windows environments. Yes, I know - it’s embarrassing. I do most of the work on Macs in Parallels and I wouldn’t even use Windows if not for the glut of horrible SQL Server installations in the real world caused by people not understanding the MySQL GUI and bad client/server developers stuck in Visual Basic still writing ADO or (gasp) ODBC code.

That being said, I have more and more clients relying on my analytics and data architecture expertise to help with Google Analytics, AdWords and other online metric and marketing systems.

Google limits the ability of users to access multiple analytics accounts and AdWords configurations once your account is linked; indeed, it is the multiple step logout/login with a different account process times 10 for my daily management tasks that sucks away productivity.

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FLUID changes that. With Fluid App, you create separate instances of Safari (essentially, don’t get mired down in the details) that retain their separate cookies and other settings from the main Safari instance, making it possible to make a Fluid app for “Client A - Google” and another for “Client B - Google” that default to going write into Google Analytics with the respective client account logins already in place.

Fluid from Todd Ditchendorf on Vimeo.

Check out Fluid here and learn about all the features the tiny charge of $4.99 will unlock for you.

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