GrooveShark/Chrome web store
A while ago Google Chrome introduced the Chrome web store. If you go there and “buy” an application (the ones I “bought” so far were free) the view switches to your home screen where the application icon pops up in a list, so you can launch it. Uh, I wonder where I’ve seen that before?
Most applications are just links to existing websites. For example, if you install the Google Maps application, you get a Google Maps icon on your home screeen (the screen you see when you open a new tab) and that’s it. All of this is just a grand scheme to make people feel like they are buying software, in preparation of ChromeOS invading the world.
One website I really like that is also an “app” in the Chrome Web Store is Grooveshark. Grooveshark used to be this Flash based tool to listen to music. They recently revamped their interface to be HTML-based and it’s super cool. Enter “Admiral Freebee” and click “play all” and you’re listening to the admiral instantly. Very useful when you don’t have your personal music collection handy. You can save songs and add them to playlists if you have an account, which is free. There’s some ads in the sidebar but I have banner blindness so I don’t mind. If you really hate that I guess you could install Adblock for your browser or something similar. Super cool by the way; when you’re listening to a song and you create an account the music never stops since every request is asynchronous. Awesome.
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I like Tweetdeck for Chrome too. It has some awesome features the desktop app does not have, like inline pictures and account-combined columns. But you are right: some/most apps are not really apps.
I use grooveshark quite often. And loving the extension in chrome. It’s quite handy since i use chrome as my main browser at the moment. Also the webdeveloper toolbar of google is quite “smexy” because it uses a nice overlay instead of adding another actual toolbar. Firebug is still a bit better on firefox though.