For those that have yet to find this browser, pop an Adderall and try to keep up. Here’s the skinny. This browser was put together for that 95th percentile user that lives, breaths, and sleeps via LAN connection. It comes boxed to handle all your social networks, tabbed browsing, multiple search engine capability, and tool bars to quickly and cleanly display all you need to know all the time.
It will, in fact, make your brain sweat the first few times you use it but you learn quickly to turn on only what you need and keep the rest a click away. I keep mine plugged into several of my most favorite info sources but have yet to plug the thing completely in. As of right now, this is what Flock is running on my laptop:
- Digg
- Gmail
- Picasa
- Blogger
- WordPress
- Flickr
- Myspace
- Yahoo Mail
- YouTube
There’s room for several more connections but these are the ones I use the most. I like the sidebar for streaming my people comments from Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Flickr, and MySpace and the top media bar for the latest and greatest from either YouTube or flickr photostreams from my favorite people. Those running with my typical 3-5 tabs and I am a happy guy. Everything I need on a regular basis is visible and easy to reach.
Adversely, you can build most of this functionality into FireFox with their long list of add-ons and some people prefer that as it tends to eat a little less memory than Flock running wide open. I’m more of a turn-key kind of guy on browsers. Should I decide to expand though, most FireFox extensions work perfectly on Flock. I learned that from their support guys that camp out on Twitter, and I didn’t even seek them out.
So there you have it; fun product that’s expandable and comes free with great customer support. Sign me up! Try it out by downloading here: http://www.flock.com
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