Plainview is here!
posted by Rick Webb 
on June 01, 2008 at 06:36 PM
filed under: Software
Rick Webb
Co-founder, COO : Boston
topics: Barbarian History, Social Networking and Community, Internet Culture, User Interface, and The Networks and the Internet
filed under: Software
489 Days.
That’s how long it was from the day we first posted in beard about a windowless fullscreen browser that we should make. How many times had we done presentations where we just wanted to show our work in a browser – screw powerpoint – but couldn’t do it because it would look lame with all that browser chrome? How many pointless Powerpoint presentations have we made of Quicktime movies of our sites, just so we could show them in full screen and look slick?
Well no more! Today we give you Plainview – our full-screen web browser for the Mac, complete with presentation mode, so you can compile a list of a bunch of websites, and show them one by one, all full screen, all without ruining your flow.
The second product from Barbarian Software, it’s free. Because we know other web geeks out there have had this problem too. Because we wanted to futz around with Cocoa in advance of the iPhone. Because web shops shouldn’t have to learn Powerpoint.
Download Plainview today, at Barbarian Software.
Woo!
16 comments
Great work, people. Many thank yous.
This sound great in theory. I have to say "in theory" as it crashes about once per minute. I'm using plainview to present a web app I built with Oracle Application Express technology.
Is this a beta version?
Keep up the good work.
how to not display links "underlined" in PlainView, I wonder - must be missin' something, any help with it?
Keep truckin'
HE
patria, socialismo o muerte.
Venceremos
"Damn animal dog son. Dale to F11 hio of puta stops writing foreign excrement pajuo tirate to a well. mother country, socialism or death. We will win"
I especially like the last reason why it's free, "Because web shops shouldn’t have to learn Powerpoint."
But please stop forcing me to learn math in order to post a comment (just joking)
There's just one thing I can't figure out: how can I make it go full screen on a second monitor? I was hooked up to a projector today, and going fullscreen with Plainview on the external display makes it actually resize to the size of the second display, but stay on the main monitor. This is on a MBP. Any ideas?