Mainly Macintosh

Flock 1.0 is out on the Mac

Flock 1.0 was released a little less than two weeks ago.  It runs very well on the Apple Macintosh.  At least it has been working very nicely for me last night and this morning.

Flock is a supercharged Firefox web browser with lots of slick features that make it far easier to use certain types of web sites:  blogs, photo sites, and so forth.  And it has very nice support for taking in news feeds too.

Flock developers have selected certain specific web sites and certain kinds of web sites, and taught the browser do more than simply display generic web user interface for that site.  They provide vastly improved dialogs and browsing panes that dramatically simplify and enhance the experience.

With a typical web site, to some degree even a nicely done Web 2.0 site - you are very conscious of the fact that you are using a client-server application and that your browser is in essence just a fancy terminal that knows how to do hypertext and can display images.

Flock gives you a sense that some of the best sites on the web are actually part of an application running on your computer.  And in a sense, they are.

Flock does a great job of making even sites that already seemed to have a good user interface become simply wonderful to you.

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Labels: flock, macintosh, software, web

posted by John Collins @ 9:16 AM