Gmail, Docs, Calendar and Analytics standalone with Prism
Prism is a cut down version of Mozilla which is designed to run single sites from icon - what's the use of that you may ask? Well it allows you to have an icon on your desktop for Gmail or Google Calendar or docs or analytics and get to it nice and quickly.
It also free's up some much needed screen real-estate as all the other toolbars relevant for a web-developers browser can get in the way and are not used when you are using you email and calendar.
Additionally - as web developer I tend to restart firefox more often than some - and having my email seperated from that is nice.
Give it a try and see if you like it. On Ubuntu Hardy you can do the following to install it:
sudo apt-get install prism-google-calendar
#install google docs
sudo apt-get install prism-google-docs
#install gmail
sudo apt-get install prism-google-mail
#install analytics
sudo apt-get install prism-google-analytics
On other platforms (windows,mac or other linux versions) you can go to the Prism site and download it.
For the different applications check out the Bundles section or the User contributed bundles section.
Obviously this shares a lot of similarities with the adobe AIR platform albeit not as full featured. It will be interesting to see what further development plans there are for the prism platform.
Cheers, Mark
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