Helium

A floating browser window for your Mac

88 followers

A floating browser window for your Mac

88 followers

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Multitask with ease. Helium is a floating browser window that allows you to watch media while you work. Your content will never fall behind your other windows even as you switch tasks.

Launch tags:Mac•Productivity•Tech

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Helium

Maker

Hi, the maker of Helium here! I'm glad you all like it! I've spent so many hours trying to watch Hulu while I code, always getting frustrated when the video gets lost behind my work. A few days ago, I spent the night hacking this together to fix that, and I'm pretty pleased by the results! A really neat use case that I hadn't even considered is using Helium to watch programming tutorials while coding, which is a really awesome prospect! I'm very passionate about education, so I think it's really great that a "productivity" product of this sort can be repurposed to provide that kind of value. I've got some interesting new features planned, such as automatic fill-window mode for Hulu and Youtube videos. Also, I want to look into a way to get a 1-click "Open in Helium" button in Safari. Further, multi-window support is coming for all you crazies who want to watch Hulu and Netflix simultaneously! Thanks for trying Helium out! Feel free to check out the source code too—you'd be surprised how simple this was to implement on OS X!

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11yr ago

Mute.vc

@jadengeller Swift FTW!

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11yr ago

Helium

Maker

@thomasmeagher I'm absolutely in love with Swift! If you want to see more cool Swift stuff, check out my Gists! https://gist.github.com/JadenGeller

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11yr ago

Mute.vc

@jadengeller will do 😎

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11yr ago

Nicheboard

@jadengeller You might want to renew your domain :-) It's expired

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9yr ago

Helium

Maker

@citizenfatimah Thanks! Just turned on auto-renew.

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9yr ago

How about the Slack app open in Helium? UPDATE: it actually works fine! No more missed messages because of a window tsunami!

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11yr ago

Helium

Maker

@m_patrik Wow, that's a fantastic use case! (:

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11yr ago

Tracr

Hunter

A floating browser window for OS X. I really like the first sentence on their website. "Multitask with ease. Helium is a floating browser window that allows you to watch media while you work. Your content will never fall behind your other windows even as you switch tasks." It's great when you like watching things next to work.

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11yr ago

Wildcard (Pre-launch)

@gekitz very cool! Thanks for hunting!

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11yr ago

VEED

@gekitz Thanks for making my development work 2 times faster man :)

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11yr ago

Is it more efficient to code while 'watching' GOT (or anything else while coding? I've been brainwashed into thinking multi tasking means all output quality takes a hit. I'm dying to know the secret to how this works :-)

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11yr ago

Buffer

Game of Thrones new season began yesterday with HBO Now a real product, AND THEN this video player hits PH? "Oh, Sherlock, what do we say about coincidence?" "The Universe is rarely so lazy" Nice work @jadengeller and/or the HBO gods who commissioned you to do this genius product ;)

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11yr ago

VEED

It'd be amazing if I could set a certain resolution. So I can view a downscaled 1900 x 1080 window on a laptop.

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11yr ago

Startup Stash

@samuelbeek you can drag to adjust size ;)

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11yr ago

@samuelbeek @bramk I think he wants to downscale a high resolution to a smaller size, not actually look at a lower resolution window. For example: to avoid seeing mobile versions of sites.

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11yr ago

I've been looking for a new/supported AFloat forever! This looks great. Has anyone seen an app that allows you to make arbitrary OS X windows float/translucent?

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11yr ago

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