But when you quit the app, it doesn’t quit all of the Flotatos, only the one Flotato app you’re currently using. At the top left of your screen, instead of saying Instagram, it says Flotato. There’s only one way you can tell the difference between this app and a “real” app. And you created it virtually instantly with Flotato.
#FLOTATO REVIEW PLUS#
Instagram has the plus button at the bottom and Instagram stories at the top and functions exactly like Instagram on iOS. You can launch via Spotlight or Launchpad. You can see it in your Applications folder with its normal icon just like on the phone. Instagram now acts like any other app on your Mac.
Log into Instagram and you’re ready to play. In about 0.15 seconds, Instagram opens up in a window on your Mac. Ready? It’s super complicated.Ĭlick on the Get button under Instagram and in about 0.2 seconds, the Get button turns to Open. The apps chosen for Flotato don’t by any means encompass all of the mobile apps in the world, but it does seem to have a lot of the usual suspects that you might want. When you launch Flotato, you’ll see a grid of pretty app icons and their names, each with a “Get” button below it.
But if you find you really like having lots of web services in their own little apps, you can shell out a few bucks and go bananas with all the options. This works out pretty well because if you’re really only irritated by Instagram not having the darn plus button, you can get a completely functional version for your Mac through Flotato for free.
#FLOTATO REVIEW FULL#
With the iOS versions on your Mac, you can run many of the applications not made for the Mac.įlotato is free for 2 apps and if you want or need more, a full license is $19. There’s a new kid in town called Flotato from that creates site-specific browsers, but It creates the iOS versions of those web apps. You may remember back in November of 2009 on episode 233 when Bart Busschots told us about Fluid, an app that would allow you to create site-specific browser instances. Instagram isn’t the only site doing this. This is an annoying hack and I don’t like that I have to do that just to play with the cool kids. Even with this trick, you don’t get access to Instagram Stories. As soon as you do this, you get the Plus button. If you enable the developer mode in Safari (or use the already available developer mode in Firefox), you can change the User Agent Switcher to iPhone, thereby tricking sites like Instagram into thinking you’re on a mobile device.
#FLOTATO REVIEW HOW TO#
Last year I did a blog post entitled How to Use Instagram from a Real Computer that gave you a little trick to fix this problem. The worst part is that Instagram actually works via the web interface at, but there’s no plus button so you can only look at other people’s content you can’t add your own. I want to be a good Instagrammer, but being restricted to only using my iPhone is irritating as all get out. Don’t get me wrong, you couldn’t pry my phone out of my cold, dead hands, but if I can type for real, I’m going to do it.Ī shining example of this annoyance is Instagram. I know I’m an old lady but I really like to type and interact with the world via a big-girl keyboard on a real computer. One of my pet peeves in app development right now is how many services only work on mobile. The Problem to be Solved Flotato Interface
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