This is an update on my prior post about using the Prism plug-in for the Firefox browser. I now have nearly a dozen “web applications” that I’ve made from websites. The fist one I created was for Google Reader. Now I have added one for my local weather, National Radar map, Grand Central, Premiere Conferencing, my work email’s Web interface, our corporate directory, and the web interface to my Network Storage. During a recent Woot-off, I even created one of these web applications for Woot so it was easy to keep up-to-date on the deals.

I find it very handy to have “windows” rather than browser links to these applications. The windows remember their size and placement. Prism runs these applications as separate from the browser and even remembers login information separate from the browser. While I do not get “off-line” access, that’s not a concern since most of these web applications are for specific servers or very time sensitive (weather now not a few hours ago) so if I don’t have a network connection, the service would not be much use anyway.

all in all, it is one of the better productivity enhancements I’ve adopted over the past several months. It goes especially well with StandaloneStacks which I use to extend my taskbar!