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I’m coming out and saying it, loud and proud!  “I’m a Flocker!”

Recently, I made the move from Firefox over to Flock on my main workstation.  It gave me everything I love with Firefox with the social features of Flock.

I was initially one of the testers when Flock was only on developer release.  Of course there were a lot of bugs that made using it neat but far from a daily tool.

Today, they’ve announced the first non-beta release of Flock with version 1.0.

I’m using the built-in blog editor to post this now, as I’ve migrated over to Flock on my laptop as of today.

One thing I wasn’t too hot for was that Yahoo! was the default search engine.  BUT… now worries just do an about:config type search in the filter bar and change the default engine form Yahoo! to Google.  Next time you load, you’ll be searching default with Google but still seeing the live search results from Yahoo!

One feature that I LOVE is the clipboard.  This is something that Opera has that I love, but since I’m a avid Roboform user I could never use it.

As a developer working on several projects at a time on an on-going basis, I’ve generally got quite a few bookmarks that are project specific.  Whether it be to a PHP class, a plug-in, or what have you.  These bookmarks can easily pile up over the long haul, but with the clipboard I can save text snippets, links and more with easy viewing and deletion.  It’s one of my new best friends!

All of this and I haven’t even mentioned the integration of Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, etc, etc, etc.

Flock is a great browser and I can’t wait to see what’s down the road… especially since I no longer have to see the word “beta’.

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Tags: flock, flock browser, browsers

Apple brought it’s second Apple program to Windows today. The first was iTunes. Now, we have the Safari web browser for Windows. The initial release is in beta of course.

Some good things about the Safari for Windows is that Apple has promised a speedy, speedy version. Apple says that Safari performed an iBench HTML performance suite test twice as fast as IE 7, and also pretty comparable results from the Javascript test.

Visit Apple and download Safari for Windows.

When I work on redesigns that use some content from the existing site, I’ll simply copy and paste the text in to my editor. Now, because I hand code that isn’t a big deal because I get plain text anyway. But if you are working in a WYSIWYG environment such as Dreamweaver, you’ll get the text and formatting.

So what do you do? One option is the Copy Plain Text extension for Firefox that allows you to copy text from the browser as plain text.

But what if you want to copy as HTML without having to go in to the source code?

This new Firefox Extension, Extended Copy Menu, will let you do just that. Extended Copy Menu provides you with the option to copy a selection as plain text or HTML. The options are added to your right-click context menu.

I’ve installed this extension not so much for the Plain Text option but for the Copy as HTML option. I don’t often want to copy specific HTML from a web page, but this little extension will come in handy when I do!