2 Cool Ways to watch the Olympics on Your Mac [Mac Tip]

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PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A POST ABOUT WAYS TO WATCH THE OLYMPICS ON YOUR MAC, NOT THE PLACES TO WATCH IT. (although, I can show where to do that ).

For those who are having to carry on working at their mac’s yet want to keep their eye on the Olympics. Here are two great ways to do it.

Irrespective of which way you choose, make sure you visit wired for an ever growing list of ways to watch the Olympics online.

Before I explain the two options:

i. Download Fluid which essentially lets you create a browser for a specific website & gives you lots of cool to use for each.
ii. Add whichever site you’re planning on watching the Olympics on to the field that becomes available to you when you open Fluid.

Now here are your two options:

1. Keep the Olympics running in the top/bottom corner of your screen.

Download afloat which when installed will allow you to keep most of you mac windows above the others (if you set it to obviously). The menu bar will look like the image on the right.

Resize your browser window & keep the olympics running in the top or bottom corner of your screen as you get on with what else you need to do. Works particularly well if you have a large screen.

[TIP: Change your new Fluid browser's appearance in "appearance" in the preferences to chromeless which completely removes the outer bar from the window - more info on Chromeless view here .]

2. Convert Fluid into a Menu Bar SSB

This works great if you’ve got a smaller screen because it will essentially keep the window out of sight but just one click away.

To create a menu bar SSB (site specific browser) - just click on your new SSB name, in my case it’s BBC and then click convert to Menu Extra SSB as the image to the left.

You can see a screenshot of how it the final view looks below: