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Getting Flocked: Web Mail Notifier

jen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:06:10 +0000

Still Flocking with this browser, I’ve had a chance now to get to know the web mail notifier feature. First off, I love the easy set up. As soon as you log into your web mail, Flock asks you if you would like to save the settings in the browser. A click or two later and you’re done. You can have multiple accounts loaded in, but only one default at a time. The absolute best feature is the ability to use your web mail straight away when you click on an e-mail link. Remember how you used to have all your web mail settings, POP and SMTP, all set up in a separate e-mail application then, when you clicked on an e-mail link, that app would then have to load on top of everything else. What a pain. No more. How sweet.

Now for the gripes…Flock doesn’t check the web mail for new messages when I load the browser. I’ve looked around at the settings, but I can’t get it to check the instant the browser loads unless I click on it to tell it to. I want less clicks, not more.

That being said, it still super convenient especially when you have several web mail accounts. I also like the one click to compose. That’s bitchin’ nice.

Tags: Internet, Flock, browsers

Getting Flocked: The Web Clipboard

jen — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:04:25 +0000

OK, I’m liking this Flock browser and I have had a chance to use the web clipboard feature. I have to say it’s AWESOME! Finally something that makes my life easier. You just drag an image over the clipboard to pop it in there. Later, when you want to use it, you just double click it.

I have used it to save images from an image website for use in development. It’s cool for this because you can click directly on the image and it takes you to the website it came from. I can organize them in folders and, when to purchase, click on them to go directly to the image website. No more trying to remember how I found the image or creating custom searches on someone else’s website. It’s much faster to reference and retrieve images.

Next up is the built-in web mail notifier…

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: flock, web clipboard, images, browser

Go Get Flocked

jen — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:59:59 +0000

I’m mucking around with a new browser – Flock. It’s brings social networking up a notch, hooking into all the latest social sites, blog tools, and file sharing webs. And, it loads sites faster than FF (go figure).

I particularly like the My World page. It opens in a separate tab and keeps all the sites you hit the most right in front of you. It can be customized for your browsing habits and keeps track of all those annoying logins for webmail, blogs, and sharing sites. That’s its real appeal for me.

I love the ability to post to a blog right from one click on the browser tool bar (like I’m doing now).

Flock is open source, and future thinking. Read more about them on their “About Us” page.

There are many other way cool features to the browser that I will take a closer look at one by one. The web clipboard looks interesting – think I’ll start there…

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: flock, browser, web browser, social networking, social web, social sites