Flock II
June 22, 2006 – 5:47 pmSo far so good…
Flickr integration is better than the tools Flickr offers. Halfway through an upload something messed up, but Flock’s uploader knew which pictures had already been uploaded and when I made it try again it just uploaded those (Flickr Uploadr either deletes all the pictures from the queue or leaves them all in). It also lets you select as many pictures as you want and edit the tags on those pictures all at once (with Flickr Uploadr you can edit one pictures tags or all the pictures tags)
The only annoyance is that when it is creating the thumbnails, the window jumps to the front after each new thumbnail as long as Flock is the active application. This makes browsing almost impossible. I think/hope they will fix that.
Firefox Extensions work with Flock (sometimes). This is good, but the Adblock Filterset updater does not work, so I’m having to make all sorts of my own rules.
The blogging tool is nice (better than Word Press’ interface), but I did run into trouble: When I tried inputing text, I wasn’t able to make it plain text, the wysiwyg editor made my text part of the preceeding link. So I switched over to the code editor, put my text in, and published the post, but none of my text was in the post… Weird.
A few negatives:
Del.icio.us integration is a little buggy… I must have messed something up because it has stopped sending new things to del.icio.us when I star them.
They don’t support bookmark folders, so instead of clicking on a button to open all my comics every morning, I have to drill down in a menu… I’m not a fan. Luckily I can still “open all in tabs” If that had gone away that would probably be a deal breaker.
Apple’s spelling doesn’t work (why not?) The built in spell checker sucks (an aside: I wish I could run word 5.1 in OSX on Intel, I’ve said that before. The only thing that I like better about word processors now is the contextual spell checking…) Flock’s spell checker is much like Word 5.1.
