Theoretically someone could make a packaged browser + greasemonkey + stylish AIR app for particular web sites that growl notifies and lives in the dock and be more in your face; but this scaffold right now is pretty basic.

I should also mention there is a website called airifier which does this as well, except I think they give you a packaged app only, without the source.

I also got a bunch of fixes into this version of airake; packaging is fixed, and there is a task for creating certificates, among other things. I just deployed version 0.2.4 to rubyforge so it should be up by the time you read this.

The usage:

browsair GReader http://reader.google.com path/to/rss_icon_128x128.png

Creates an AIR project for a google reader AIR app. In the GReader project, run:

rake air:package CERTIFICATE=path/to/cert.pfx

If you need to generate a certificate:

rake air:certificate CERTIFICATE=../ducktyper.pfx

I built a couple already if you want to bypass all that compiling:

• Google Reader – GReader.air
• Facebook – Facebook.air

(If you don’t have the AIR runtime installed, get it here)