Today Daryl announced his tentative plans for the next Knoxville area Flock users meetup one night next week when he said: If you happen to be in the Knoxville area and are interested in meeting some other Flock users or just want to find out more, please let me know by email (daryl at flock [...]
Category Archives: Flock
Evaluating software
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
For the last several days, I’ve been evaluating several new pieces of software. As I mentioned in my Lessons Learned post on the 22nd, I needed to explore an automatic backup program that gave me an option for offsite backup. The next day, Tom Simpson posted a piece called “Backups Should Be Automatic” that was, [...]
The Gmail Manager Extension
Friday, June 16, 2006
One of the joys of using either Firefox or Flock is that both of them allow you to extend the functionality of the browser. What that means is that if you need for your browser to do some specific thing that it doesn’t already do, you, or in my case somebody else, can write a [...]
Taking Flock's photo topbar for a spin
Thursday, June 15, 2006
This morning I’ve been experimenting with Flock. For instance, here is one of my experiments. What this illustrates is that I was able to use Flock’s photo topbar to drag and drop a picture from my son Mike’s Flickr photostream into a message I sent him, using my web-based email account with Gmail. And now, [...]
Flock Beta released
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Last night, the first official beta of Flock (version 0.7) became available for download from their web site. Because I have been referring to Flock here at my blog since late last year, most of you regular readers have at least some inkling that it is a web browser that is based on Firefox. This [...]
Congratulations to Tom Simpson
Sunday, June 11, 2006
There are lots of ways to get your news, more now than ever before. One of those ways is RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, that I’ve written about before. This morning, thanks to Tom Simpson’s RSS feed, I learned about one of the biggest bits of news to hit the blogosphere in a long time [...]
Flock: Then and Now
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
As any of you regular readers know, I’ve been using Flock as my primary web browser since back in November of 2005, despite the fact that it is only a “developer’s pre-release” version. I’ve commented on its features, its family and even its failures. And I have also admitted that, in recent weeks, I’ve been [...]
Outage
Friday, May 12, 2006
I have finally regained my connection to the Internet this afternoon. Yesterday morning when I awoke, I found that my Comcast connection to the Internet was intermittently connecting but wouldn't sustain the connection. At the end of the day, I called tech support and they had me perform a couple of tests and then concluded [...]
Potholes in the path of progress
Monday, May 8, 2006
Apparent glitch, originally uploaded by CaptQuirk. Flock is still in the pre-release developers preview stage, so it isn't surprising that everything isn't yet working as it should. One of those things that isn't working on my system as I would expect it to is the newly-renamed "My News" function. With it you can subscribe to [...]
Customizing applications
Thursday, May 4, 2006
I have previously blogged about the virtue (as I see it) of being able to customize your applications to your own preferences. This afternoon I see that Daryl has made a plea for such customization of a feature in Flock, the alerts he receives from the Flickr Photo browser. He said: In its current form, [...]