Say Aloha to Hana

Sorry guys but this app is a joke.

I can imagine it might be useful for people with ADHD or the one who dosen’t know about alternative browsers like Firefox, Camino, Shiira, etc but I can’t imagine myself paying 20 bucks for stripped down Safari 2 (which is not compatible with Gmail for example) and is not able to use nightly builds of Webkit.

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I agree, $19.91 sounds like quite a lot for such a feature-limited app. Especially when its limited feature set is entirely drawn from Safari (which is naturally free)!

Does it do anything else for you? Such as open your selected apps and log them all in automatically when you open the program? That might be nice.

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BTW, you can remove the toolbar items and bookmarks bar in Safari and get the exact same clutter free look… if that’s the only advantage on offer here.

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@Pete
Yes, Hana keeps you logged in to your web apps between launches, which I really like. As for the clutter, sure, you could remove the clutter from Safari, but you’ll have to put it back to browse around, and I don’t like all the back-and-forthing.

I like that Hana lets me silo my web apps from you regular browsing; it helps keep me on task. Sure, it’s a personal preference, but for someone like me who’s fairly ADD while on the internet, it’s nice to have something like Hana to help me keep the blinders on.

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@Pete
Yes, Hana keeps you logged in to your web apps between launches, which I really like. As for the clutter, sure, you could remove the clutter from Safari, but you’ll have to put it back to browse around, and I don’t like all the back-and-forthing.

I like that Hana lets me silo my web apps from you regular browsing; it helps keep me on task. Sure, it’s a personal preference, but for someone like me who’s fairly ADD while on the internet, it’s nice to have something like Hana to help me keep the blinders on.

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Well, you can use two safari windows — one clutter free for web apps and one for general browsing. Then the only difference is setup time (none at all if you tend to leave your mac on).

Might be interesting to try it though, I suppose.

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@Pete
True, but I like that I can hide Hana (and by extension, my web apps), and still use Safari to stumble around. Even better, though, my web-apps are already loaded and never more than a quick Cmd+Tab away. However, like I said, all this is a personal preference, but it works well for me.

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I must admit, it is quite a strange product just for web-apps, but I do like the bit where you can select which browser to use, seeing as not all support Safari. Nice little feature.

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Why not just use saved sessions or multiple home pages in a portable browser? Heck, even Vienna has more functionality.

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this seems to be not much more than a wrapper for webkit. Maybe if it could separate the web apps into different “applications”, give each one a dock icon etc it might be more usefull.

But as it stands it seems like something a cocoa programmer could whip up in 5 minutes. (im not so I can’t ,but im sure there is someone out there who could.)

Personally, I would just use a separate install of Camino to do the same thing for free.

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@henry
Actually, it took me a little more than five minutes but I did almost the same thing more than a year ago.

My app had all the Google web app hardcoded on a button bar but a preference would probably be very simple to code. Also, my app was a multiple window application, witch in the end I prefer.

Anyway, nice Idea but I soon lost the interest of having yet another browser on my Mac.

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