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Flock preview now available
by Marc Perton Oct 21st 2005 at 11:21AM
Ready to try Flock, the Mozilla-based social browser? You can now download a developer's preview
and give it a spin. The alpha (excuse me, developer's preview) runs on
Mac, Windows and Linux, and seems relatively stable. It has built-in
blogging, flickr and del.icio.us posting tools, and allows one-click
tagging of web sites. Since the public bookmarking function
is built on del.icio.us, there's already a huge potential Flock
community out there. If you have a blog, regularly use flickr or save your bookmarks on del.icio.us, Flock may be just the thing for you; it even supports some key Firefox extensions, including Adblock and Greasemonkey. It may not become your default browser, but Flock
is definitely worth a try (even if you're not a developer!).
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Geoff said 11:48AM on 10-21-2005
I've been enjoying Flock for a while. Really nice, fast -rendering browser. It also supports nearly ALL Firefox extensions with some modification to the extension, which I conveniently made easy with my little app I made: http://frobba.com/main.asp?article=230
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