Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

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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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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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