DIY web apps

Epiphany - a small web browser available for Mac OS X, Linux and (although nobody cares) BSD - may not be the most advanced browser around, but it's certainly got a big fat USP as of a recent update. Users can now hit shift-ctrl-A on any site to save that page as a web app. The web app can then run separately from the browser, just like any desktop app.

A twitter client in the most literal sense possible

The interface is incredibly simple - a title bar and the site. What's more, in creating the app epiphany grabs the site's logo if possible - and if not takes a screenshot of the top left corner to use as the icon for your new app. You can name it yourself, as well as change the icon if there's a better one available that epiphany didn't find.

The apps are treated normally - you can pin them to docks, create a launcher and stick them on the desktop. And it just gets better - if you click on a link in your app, it's opened in the browser so as to keep the app doing what it's meant to do. And just for a final touch, they inherit cookies on their specific site from the browser.

Boy, I love the internet.