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Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

By // July 18, 2006, 8:44 AM PST // billdetwiler

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  • Flock main window

    Released by a small group of California developers on October 21, 2005, Flock, a Firefox-based Web browser, provides built-in support for several new Web technologies.

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  • Import from IE

    During the Flock installation you can import your existing Internet Explorer settings and data.

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  • Flock toolbars

    Flock's toolbars not only look good, but both IE and Firefox users should find them intuitive and easy to use.

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  • Customize toolbars

    As Flock is built on Firefox, the toolbar customization options are identical, except for the available icons.

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  • RSS Feed button

    A Feed button will appear in the address bar when Flock detect an RSS feed on the active Web page.

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  • RSS Feed view

    Click the Feed button and Flock displays the page's RSS feed within the browser window.

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  • Bookmarks

    You can quickly bookmark favorite Web pages by clicking the large star icon. The icon appears yellow once you have bookmarked a page.

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  • Tagging bookmarks

    You and easily tag bookmarked pages.

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  • Sharing bookmarks

    You can share your bookmarks through del.icio.us. The + and - buttons suggest that later Flock releases will support more sharing services, but del.icio.us is it for now.

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  • Managing bookmarks

    Flock's Favorites Manager lets you quickly group bookmarks into collections.

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  • Photo sharing

    You can also share photos through Flickr. The + and - buttons suggest that later Flock releases will support more sharing services, but Flickr is it for now.

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  • Blog button

    You can quickly access Flock's blog editor through the quill button.

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  • Add your blog

    Flock's blog editor support several blog XML-RPC APIs including, Blogger, MetaWeblog, Moveable Type, Atom API.

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  • Blog Editor

    Once you're blog settings are configured and verified, Flock's blog Editor let's you post directly from the browser.

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  • Flock Shelf

    Flock's Shelf is a handy tool that lets you drag and drop text snippets, links, or images from Web pages to the Shelf and then to a blog entry.

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  • Storing items on the Shelf

    Here the Shelf is holding two items that I can drag into a new blog post.

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  • Blog about items on the Shelf

    This image shows a text snippet that I dragged from the Shelf to a new blog entry.

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Flock main window

Released by a small group of California developers on October 21, 2005, Flock, a Firefox-based Web browser, provides built-in support for several new Web technologies.

CNET Networks

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Bill Detwiler is Editor in Chief of TechRepublic and the host of Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Prior to joining TechRepublic in 2000, Bill was an IT manager, database administrator, and desktop support specialist in the ...