Flotato

From browser tab to magic mac app

29 followers

From browser tab to magic mac app

29 followers

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You can turn Flotato into any app, just by giving it a new name. It's like a phone on your Mac, and it will save your laptop battery life.

Launch tags:Mac•Productivity•Tech

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Maker

Hi Hunters! One day I looked at all the tabs I had open in my browser windows, and just decided to launch a new one, not even checking if I already had Twitter open. When I finally got to Twitter, I noticed that it's kind of interesting that Twitter takes up the whole screen, because my browser does. Then, I wondered why my laptop's fan was on, and why my battery drained so fast. Turns out, most apps today are huge. Flotato is not, in fact, Twitter in Flotato takes up a mere 10% of the memory Twitter in Chrome takes up. The app size is tiny, too. Trello's app is 14 times as big as Trello for Flotato. So anyway, I've been enjoying using it, so I thought I'd share with everyone here. It's free to use, but if you want to run a lot of apps at the same time, you can grab the Pro version at the price of a round of drinks, and even less with the code HUNTER, which gives you 30% off!

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7yr ago

@mortenjust Would love to buy but the HUNTER code seems to be overused and no longer valid.

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7yr ago

@t55 Hunter code is working again :)

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7yr ago

WebsiteVoice

@mortenjust what about privacy?

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7yr ago

HueSnap

Really cool idea, I just downloaded to try it with a couple sites and apps, and want to check in regarding the privacy and security around storing the user credentials. (More specifically, Instagram and Twitter) Don't see any privacy policy & terms of service. Could you please elaborate on this? @mortenjust

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7yr ago

This is fantastic. Better than Fluid, which is what I've used for this previously. Is it possible to change an app's icon, though? Some of the ones I've made have square icons which are truncated by the circle shape.

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7yr ago

Emoji Dictionary

@justcharlie you can use the "standard" macOS method of doing Get Info on an app and then pasting the new app icon image over the icon there.

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7yr ago

@gingerbeardman great to know, thank you.

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7yr ago

Did Flotato go out of business? I already bought a license last year. Now I open the app. It blocks me. Says that I need to upgrade to the pro version, (which I already paid for). So I click "Enter License" and nothing happens. Then I go to flotato.com and I get a 404 page not found page. This is not acceptable.

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6yr ago

Convert3D - Convert any 3D model

Maker

@daniel_lyons hi, grab a new app from the site and you’ll be good to go

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6yr ago

@mortenjust Thank you for finally replying. I redownloaded and deleted the old version and it seems to be working for now.

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6yr ago

Clop

This is brilliant! @mortenjust How does it work? Is it just starting the websites in a WKWebView? The performance looks great. And the rename-and-launch feature is the kind of magic I'm looking for in a product. Awesome idea! 👏

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7yr ago

Liked the idea, application loading is pretty fast. It will be nice to have an option for "Always on top", which will help keeping youtube or twitter always floating on top of other applications. On youtube, it will be nice to have a picture in picture mode, such that only player is visible.

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7yr ago

@chetan_sachdev This feature is there. Shitf + CMD + P

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7yr ago

@csaba_kissi Thanks fo sharing this hidden shortcut. Is there any shortcut for enabling pip mode(picture in picture) on youtube? So far I am just loving the experience of using Flotato, I could open twitter, trello and youtube and all works seamlessly. What technology stack you are using behind the scenes to make this happen?

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7yr ago

Emoji Dictionary

@chetan_sachdev it's not hidden, it's in the Window menu.

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7yr ago