When we think of an internet browser, the first thing that come into our mind is Microsoft Internet Explorer. Too bad. Well, times changed and people migrated to Firefox and then ‘flocked’ around Opera. I think one should now flock around ‘Flock’ – ya that’s the name they gave it. Flock.An internet browser which was hiding since all these years and nobody noticed it.
I was surfing a video-tutorial on YouTube and the person explaining it was using this browser. Don’t ask me about the tutorial because I hardly remember a word from it but yes I thought I should download this cool browser and let me tell you, it was a worth it.
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First of all, it does it all. Casual surfing is awesome with the tabbed interface which almost all the browsers have nowadays. Digging more into the features it has many many plugins built-in to it such as its own RSS Reader, a People sidebar, a cool personalization facility ‘My World’ which integrates snippets of Yahoo, Digg, Flickr, YouTube etc. Moreover if you own a blog on Blogger, WordPress,etc. then you can write your posts right within a notepad style text editor built-in to Flock and then publish without a glitch. Adding more to these, Flock has its own photo uploader which which hosts your photos on well known image hosting sites.
Enough me describing it. Have a look for yourself now because seeing… is believing!
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