I’m super excited about my latest video tutorial for ScreenCastsONLINE. In this tutorial, I first teach how you can make little standalone applications from websites. They’re called site-specific browsers, and they’re valuable as an easy way to open a web service as though it’s an app, and if done with the right tool, they can provide isolation of your data between apps.
Apple added a feature called “Add to Dock”, which sort of provides this capability, but it fails if you ever need to go to two URLs of the same service. Think Google Docs and Google Sheets, for example. They can’t be separated because the Add to Dock method doesn’t know the difference.
After demonstrating how Add to Dock falls down, I introduce Unite, a terrific app from BZG Apps, that solves this problem and allows you to create site-specific browsers that don’t leak data between them. It’s great fun, and I loved working with the developer to bring you this tutorial.
You can get a free, 7-day trial of ScreenCastsONLINE and watch this tutorial and all of the current back catalog at screencastsonline.com/…