Flock
I finally tried Flock after hearing about it in depth on Inside the Net.
I hadn’t tried it before, because I expected it to be a bloated browser, full of “Web 2.0″ crap just because it is cool. Although that podcast got me really in the mood to try it. And after using it for just a few minutes I think I have fallen in love.
It has all the Firefox goodness in it, but maintains a beautiful clean look. In some ways even better than Firefox. I was really craving a simple clean look too. I was using Safari for a very long time before switching back to Firefox last week. The Web Developer extension is a must have for any web developer.
The next thing I fell in love with is the del.icio.us bookmark integration. While the Firefox extension works fairly well for this, Flock takes it to the next step. Adding a tagging/spotlight like behavior for your bookmarks. So very cool.
Now I am tryin the integrated blogging tool. So far it doesn’t seem any more exemplary than MarsEdit. Except for the fact that this program is Free. yay!
So far I haven’t found any bugs, and it seems to work very well. I do see a few places for small interface improvements, but beyond that it totally r0xx0rs.
Posted: December 6th, 2005.