{"id":1845,"date":"2011-03-23T13:21:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T13:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/liquidicity\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2019-11-28T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:52:22","slug":"using-gosquared-trends-in-your-os-x-menubar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/using-gosquared-trends-in-your-os-x-menubar","title":{"rendered":"Using GoSquared Trends in your OS X Menubar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/11_03_23_trendsfluid_790x200.jpg\" alt=\"GoSquared Trends - real-time website analytics on your desktop with OS X.\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"guestpost_intro\">\n<h4>Guest Post<\/h4>\n<p>This is a guest post from one of our part-time interns &#8211; <strong>Zak Auerbach<\/strong> (@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zaksoup\">zaksoup<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallprint\">Want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/jobs\/\">work at GoSquared<\/a>? See our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/jobs\/\">open positions<\/a> now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Set up Fluid<\/h3>\n<p>First, go grab yourself a copy of Fluid for OS X completely free. <a href=\"http:\/\/fluidapp.com\/\">Learn more about Fluid<\/a>. Fluid lets you create &ldquo;site specific browsers&rdquo;, essentially a browsers that are dedicated to individual sites that you can run as if they&#8217;re a native app on Mac OS X. Once you&#039;ve downloaded Fluid, start it up, and you&#039;ll see a window asking you for a URL and icon.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/11_03_23_trendfluidblank_01.png\" alt=\"Fill in Fluid's application settings for using GoSquared Trends\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Simply fill in the fields with the following details. In the URL field, fill in &#8220;www.gosquared.com&#8221; (including www) if you want to ensure you can access Trends and related pages like the sign in screen. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/trends\/icon\/menubar_01_16x16.png\" title=\"Download icon for GoSquared Trends\">download a custom icon<\/a> (the GoSquared logo), otherwise, Fluid will use the GoSquared site favicon. It&#8217;s up to you.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/11_03_23_trendsfluidcomplete_01.png\" alt=\"The details filled in to get up and running with Trends in Fluid\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I chose to call my app GoSquared Trends, but you can call it whatever you feel like. Go crazy. Create the app, and choose to launch it. The first thing you see will be the main GoSquared website page. Sign in, and navigate to the Trends page you want to have in your menubar.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/11_03_23_trendsfluid_01.png\" alt=\"Tredns running as a standard Fluid application\" width=\"790\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Put it in the menubar<\/h3>\n<p>Now, go to the main app menu, and select &ldquo;<b>convert to menuextra SSB<\/b>&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The app will relaunch in your menubar. You will be prompted to log in once more, and then you&#039;re done! You can choose to log in each time, or check the &ldquo;keep me signed in&rdquo; box to stay signed in when you quit the app.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/11_03_23_trensmenufluid_01.png\" alt=\"Trends menu in OS X\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If everything went well you should have GoSquared Trends for your site in your menubar for your obsessive stat checking pleasure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/11_03_23_trendsinmenubar_01.png\" alt=\"Presto! GoSquared Trends running as a Fluid app in your menubar. 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