Helium

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!

I was trying to figure out how to watch the new Silicon Valley HBO, and then I just dragged the file in there, WHAAAT This is amazing

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.

This is great! When I opened a youtube video it blocked the plug-in. Any way around that yet?

Awesome. Wrote something similar for Windows using Autohotkey. http://www.labnol.org/?p=5213

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

Awesome work! I have been looking for something like this for so long 😍 Only request is for full-screen videos to be contained within Helium (i.e. not actually go full-screen); don't know if this is technically possible though.