Why Flock? My thoughts about and reasons for using Flock over other browsers…

Why Flock?»  by Eric Herberholz»      - Updated March 9, 2008 3:51 PM  US/Pacific @ my Word Press Blog|Xanga Blog|Blogger Blog|lilurl|jaiku’d|twitter’d ] - [edit|internal|old] My Favorites @ del.icio.us/eric.k.herberholz/flock   My thoughts about, and reasons for, using Flock over other browsers
Q: Why Flock? A: To me, there of several features of Flock that are extremely appealing…  Blog Post Editor User Guide RSS News Feeds Reader User Guide Media Stream - access/update your favorite photos at Flickr or Photobucket, and at YouTube User Guide My World User Guide Integration with social bookmarking systems (e.g. de.licio.us, ma.gnolia) User Guide Web Clipboard “Use the Web Clipboard for Instant Saving and Sharing“ Even with loading Firefox with extensions, you do not get the integration that Flock offers. For example, to blog from Firefox you can use the ScribeFire extension. And to save webclips you can you can use another extension. And in this scenerio you will not be able to combine the use of a blog extension with a web clip extension, say, to copy from one to the other. But with Flock’s built-in Blog editor and Flock’s built-in Web Clipboard tool, you can copy from the web clips to the blog editor with ease. Built-in spell checker Plus, the same great features that Firefox has: Extensible - extensions (add-ons) can be added that extend the built-in capabilities. Most Firefox extensions work with Flock. For those that complain and won’t let you install them, they can be adapted.  Note: My Favorite Add-ons (a.k.a. Extensions) See end of this page: lilurl.org/ma693kj for the list of extensions that I use in Flock. Customizable, Personalize - buttons on toolbars can be re-arranged, toolbars using View»Toolbars»Customize…” For example. User Guide Search Engine customization User Guide And many other features… I have given a lot of feedback, and encourage others to do so also, simply use: Help»Give Feedback, or click on the blue fly icon (Send Feedback) to the right of the URL/location field. BTW, I wrote Instructions on how to download and start using Flock… Kind Regards, -erich (EricHerberholz.GooglePages.com)	References: About Flock, in Blognation, Wikipedia, CrunchBase Flock on the Web Main Features of Flock: People Share Media Minibar Search & Favorite Feed Reader Blog Editor Personalize Add-Ons “Flock is a free web browser that makes it easy to connect with your friends and express yourself online. Receive updates when friends have new photos, videos or blog posts. Upload up to 1,000 photos at one time to popular photo sites. Drag and drop photos and videos from Flock’s Media Minibar to email, comment fields, blogs, etc. Collect your favorite photos, videos, and text from the web and blog them instantly.” Release Notes www.flock.com www.planetflock.org - an aggregation of blogs from individuals who may or may not be part of Flock Inc. Adapt a Firefox extension to Flock: developer.flock.com/wiki/Firefox_to_Flock www.flock.com/community www.flock.com/download extensions.flock.com/addons www.flock.com/faq www.flock.com/support User Guide Topics Exploring the web The Location Bar News Feeds Searching the Web Downloading Files My World http://www.flock.com/investor-info, “What is Flock? … Flock is a consumer Internet business which has developed a free, next generation web browser. The web, and the way people engage online, has evolved dramatically over the past decade. But web browsers - the application that fundamentally enables online experiences and services across ones’ connected life - have not kept pace. Flock is focused on fundamentally evolving the browser, bringing a refreshing new approach to how people use and participate on the web and simplifying social and web-based applications by bringing them one step closer to the user and integrating them directly into the browser. When using Flock, people can easily discover, access, create and share videos, photos, blogs, feeds and comments across social communities, media providers, and popular websites.“
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What is a “favicon”?

• According to Wikipedia, “A favicon (short for ‘favorites icon’), also known as a website icon, a page icon or an urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage.”
  
• According to Computer Desktop Encyclopdia, ” (FAVorites ICON) When a Web page is bookmarked, a favicon is the icon used in place of the standard icon next to the name in the Favorites list. The browser obtains the icon by looking for the FAVICON.ICO file on the Web site.”

Blogged with Flock

Google Docs has competition: Zoho [Writer]…

Hmmm. Google docs has competition. Namely Zoho Writer, part of a Suite of applications. Zoho works with iPhone (mini.zoho.com). Zoho’s Wiki looks very promising.

Suggested reading: http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-faceoff/zoho-suite-vs-google-docs-315256.php

TIP: Vim sort

Being a big fan of vi*, I also use vim.

Not knowing how to sort, on a Windows system, from vim, I searched and found a Vim Wiki, where I read in VimTip588:

the simple sample in the tip can be solved by native :sort command, no plugin required.

:sort /\s\+/

and for the visual blocking condition, you need not any plugin neither. e.g. if your Visuall Block start at visual colume 7, without selecting it, just execute

:sort /\%7v/

* from BSD