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Developer

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

By Bill Detwiler October 28, 2005, 5:50 AM PDT Bill Detwiler on Twitter billdetwiler

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Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

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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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Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

Import from IE

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

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

Flock toolbars

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

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

Customize toolbars

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

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

RSS Feed button

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

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

RSS Feed view

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

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

Bookmarks

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

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

Tagging bookmarks

You and easily tag bookmarked pages.

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

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.

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

Managing bookmarks

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

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

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.

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

Blog button

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

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

Add your blog

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

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

Blog Editor

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

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

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.

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

Storing items on the Shelf

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

Flock Developer Preview 0.4.9

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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