HOWTO:Add Cerb4 to your Mac OS X Dock and Applications folder

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Installing Fluid.app 3 Grabbing the Cerb4 icon 4 Creating a Cerb4.app 5 Using Cerb4.app

Introduction

Fluid.app by Todd Ditchendorf brings the concept of site-specific browsers (SSB) to Mac OS X. In a nutshell, it helps you treat your favorite web apps like desktop applications by giving them a dock icon and a place in your Applications folder. Each application is actually a separate instance of Safari.

This is really useful for web apps you have open all day, like Cerb4, because you can quickly switch your focus without having to dig through your browser windows for the right tab. You can also launch your favorite apps from a dock shortcut or application launcher (like LaunchBar).

Windows users: You can do something similar with Mozilla Prism, but it's not nearly as polished.

Installing Fluid.app

• Visit: http://www.fluidapp.com/
• Download Fluid.app, unzip, drag to Applications

Grabbing the Cerb4 icon

• Download the 512x512 Cerb4 icon from Flickr:

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/jstanden/3061053210/sizes/o/

Creating a Cerb4.app

• Open Fluid.app
• Enter the following information:
  • URL: http://demo.cerb4.com/admin (or use your own URL)
  • Name: Cerb4
  • Location: Applications
  • Icon: (other; choose the 512x512 .PNG image you downloaded above)
• Click the "Create" button

  

  Adding Cerb4.app as an application to Mac OS X using Fluid.app

• Click "Launch Now"

  

  Launching Cerb4.app

Using Cerb4.app

• You should now have a Cerb4 icon in your dock:

  

  Cerb4.app will now show up in your dock as an icon

• It will also show up as an application in Finder and any launchers you use:

  

  Cerb4.app acts like other applications in Mac OS X thanks to Fluid.app