Thanks to Chris, I have discovered a handy application for the popular, intelligent online radio station based around users’ music interests, Pandora. An application created by IntrArts Creative Media by the name of PandoraMan lets Pandora users login to their Pandora account and play music without the use of a browser. PandoraMan is a simple wrapper, coded in OS X’s native Cocoa language, that makes Pandora seem like its own application.
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This is awesome, I used to use Pandora all the time but it got to be a hassle to go to their website. Doesn’t this remind you of the simple browser that only showed gmail, to make gmail like a real desktop application. It’s a pity I can’t think of it.
Awesome find!!! I have been longing for something like this. There was an OS X widget a while back, but that never functioned correctly. This is perfect and seems to be running quite well.
Yeah this is a much better solution for that widget, I used to use it as well.
Pierre: Yes! I used to use that simple gmail-only browser.. I think it was simply called “Webmail.”
Yep! That rings a bell. I might have to look into that. After a Google search (actually Yahoo! since I’m using Flock lately) nothing significant turned up. I believe that someone made a stand-alone google calendar application, too. Apple Mail is working fine for me, nevertheless these neat little stand alone browsers are great for what they do.
Nice tip on the app. I almost forgot about Pandora once I made the move back to OSX. I had a slick little application which did the same thing on Windows.
Derek, what’s the application on Windows? I might like to use it.
Christian, you probably already found one, but i use openpandora when i’m on my windows box. it is absolutely the best pandora standalone app i’ve found. it bloats to about 30-40mb though.