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Flock! The Social Browser!, Flock! The browser for bloggers! well, these are the statements which are creating the buzz for this browser. The browser which supports Michael Arrington (Monstrous traffic generator for startups) as well (Rather the company, who sponsors Techcrunch.com) and the browser which uses the Gecko as its rendering engine. After, reading all this I’m sure anyone will consider this browser as the top and the best browser ever built and when it has the social tag around it then certainly it becomes the choice of the year as well (By the way, in case someone doesn’t know, then let me enlighten you that TIME has chosen “YOU” as the Person of the year!). But, does the browser gives you what it is boasting about ? Why is it still not doing the best, after having all these of frills wrapped around it ? Let’s find out all this in the review of this browser and as one of the blogging software as well. This piece of software will fall in two categories and one is the browser and the other is the blogging software. So, lets find out more about Flock!

PROS of Flock :

1. Social Features : The browser delivers the features which makes it social and thus their boasting that Flock is the social browser is also true. It incorporates many social sites or features like Flickr, Del.Icio.Us, blogging software etc. which make it social and thus anyone who is looking for remote storage and who wants to share the things with the whole world then they’ll find it as the best solution for that.

2. Reliable and proved rendering engine : Flock is based on Gecko and which is the heart of one of the most talked about browser and that is Mozilla Firefox. Thus, the fact that it is also one of the safe browser to use is also correct. However, we must keep in mind that safety also depends on the users as well.

3. Integrated RSS Reader & Blogging Client : Flock has integrated blogging client and RSS reader and thus writing and reading the blogs from inside this browser becomes super easy. It supports drag and drop of photos in the browser plugin, which actually helps you insert the photos or links or text with credits quite easily.

4. Nice Interface : The interface of the browser is quite similar to that of Firefox or Opera but still it has integrated the social networking features in the browser in a much better way and they don’t seem to obtrusive at all.

5. Basic Features : It has basic features like tabbed browsing, extension support, themes, pop-up blocker etc. Most of the extensions which work in Firefox, work in flock as well.

6. Cross Platform : Flock is available for Windows, Linux and Macintosh and thus any user will not experience the problem of browser switch, in case they switch the operating system.

CONS of Flock :

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There are something’s which don’t need an explanation…For everything else there is ReviewSaurus :D

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Ecto – a desktop blogging client which is available for both Windows & Macintosh and thus one of the respected blogging desktop clients too (Many A list bloggers use Macintosh, at least those for sure whose blog I read regularly). Let’s see if this blogging software is that good or not. The software is bigger (around 8 Mb) than other blogging softwares and thus it should be feature rich and better in interface as well. But, whether it is good in interface & features or not, we’ll come to know about it shortly.

PROS of ecto :

1. WYSIWYG Editor & XHTML Support : As expected this software has the WYSIWYG editor and thus makes life simple for the blogger’s. It lets the bloggers also edit the XHTML and thus in case of any small editing of XHTML is required then it can be done easily.

2. Stable blogging software : ecto is one of the stable blogging desktop blogging client. It uses the .Net framework and it did crash once and that too only when, I’d loaded up the system too much and did many clicks (although the clicks were not required). But, comparatively it is a stable software.

3. Support for many blogging platforms : The software supports many blogging platforms and thus you’ll find your blogging platform as well.

4. Small but useful features : It has spell check, tag support, Flickr integration, old post editing, weblogs pings, automatic insertion of copied links etc. The features are certainly handy in making the life simple of any blogger.

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Do you feel constantly bugged with the security center icon in the system tray of windows XP? I’m not sure about you, but I do feel bugged constantly, it does nothing but keeps on sitting in the tray and increases the length of the tray. I keep my PC on always update for both windows and my security programs and thus I never get any notification and that green icon stays on always.

Now, if that is the case with you as well and that you don’t forget to update your windows or security programs then you can also remove that bugging icon from the tray by following these simple steps….

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Do you want to secure a windows live email ID for yourself ? Now, why you would want to do that. The answer is simple that there are millions of users around and most of them share their names as well. Everyone would like to have an email address with wonderful features, from trusted email provider and an easy to remember email address.

Live is a service from Microsoft (Trusted source), wonderful features (2 GB mailbox, outlook like interface, etc.) and the best thing is that it is yet not released (chances are that you’ll get an ID with just your name, something like you@live.com). Now, here’s the trick to get the windows live id and that too before Microsoft releases it!

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