Starbody

Yes, that IS a lame title.

I am having far too much fun playing with Flock. If things keep moving in this direction, I might just have to boot Safari and Firefox for this Swiss Army knife of browsers. Things I really, really like. No, really.The interface. It’s simple, clean and pretty dang (oh Gary Larson, thank you for eliminating the need to curse) intuitive. The buttons are sharp and guess what? They’re pretty easy to associate with their functions. Amazing!

• Integration with del.icio.us to manage your bookmarks without logging here, logging in there. Thank you. I may now actually be able to adopt to it completely. I know there are extensions for Firefox, but sometimes it takes a small thing to give me the nudge I need.
• Integrated blogging. Lovely! I had been using Ecto (which incidentally I still love) for quite awhile but when I switched over to Wordpress, things went awry. They hate each other and although I’ve tried to have them kiss and make up, I’ve finally given up. Now I can click on a sweet little quill pen button and voila! Incidentally, don’t you just love icons that use archaic images that somehow click in our minds better than their technologically advanced counterparts? I do. Seriously.
• A serious history search. Using an open source Clucene search, Flock indexes all the content on a page to allow you some quick and accurate searching.
• Most frequently visited sites. Yes! I don’t know about you, but I have committment issues. My favorites are fatter than George Costanza’s wallet so I like to hit a site a few times before I add it on.

Before you run out and install, be forewarned that this is a preview version and therefore is a bit buggy. No one is responsible if your computer’s head spins around and spews pea soup!