3 ways to put Beanstalk in your OS X Menubar
There’s now not one, not two, but THREE different ways to make sure that Beanstalk is just a click away in your Mac Menubar.
Newest: FeedsApp gives you growl notifications & clickable activity
The newest option is FeedsApp. This app grabs all activity information, including commits & deployments you have access to, and puts it in a menubar list. Every update comes with optional Growl notifications, flyout menu with more details, and you can even click on the update to jump straight to the changeset or deployment in Beanstalk in your web browser.
FeedsApp also supports a bunch of other great apps, too!
It’s normally $4.99 in the Mac App store, but it’s on sale to celebrate the new integration with Beanstalk for $2.99. Grab a copy and try it out!
Magic Bean lets you Create, Trigger, and Monitor Deployents
We’ve written about Magic Bean a few times before, as it’s one of the most popular ways to use Beanstalk on your iOS device. Andy’s created a desktop version as well, focused around our simple code deployments engine.
Just go to your Magic Bean in your menubar, browse to your environment, and set up a new deployment. Magic Bean will even let you know when the deployment has completed with a Growl notification.
Magic Bean is $9.99 in the Mac App Store. Get deploying!
Create a Menubar Browser with Fluid
Fluid is a cool tool that lets you create “single site browsers”, custom tailored for your favorite webapps. One of it’s features is the ability to let a single-site browser live in the menubar!
Luckily, Beanstalk has a pretty hot responsive design, which resizes navigation and other UI elements for mobile screens. If you create a menubar browser for Beanstalk and resize the screen appropriately, you’ll get Beanstalk’s mobile view automatically. Fluid can save these settings for the next time you start it up. It’s like having the whole Beanstalk webapp in your menubar, anytime you want it.
Than has a how-to article, including a nice-looking Beanstalk icon for your single site browser app. Fluid is technically free, but some of it’s advanced features are included only in it’s $4.99 version, available for purchase on the Fluid website.
Giveaway time!
Thanks to their generous creators, we’ve got some free codes for FeedsApp and Magic Bean for Mac. All you need to do is tweet about them for a chance to win!
