IPod Goodness

I sit in my car waiting for someone. While I wait I peck out this post. It certainly not as fast nor comfortable as real keyboard but I find the more I do this the faster I get. Currently I can stab out at least 30wpm. Which when compared with my efforts on a qwerty phone keyboard is substantially better. When you compare it to a standard phone it’s unbelievable.

The way thongs are going I think Jobs talking about the iPhone being a revoltionary vs. Evolutionary product is true. I have started to see products unrelated to Apple iPhones appearing with remarkable similarity of interface. I predict that the fixed button is going to very soon vanish from all but the most basic of phones. Also very shortly I expect to see a host of new machines which are a cross breeding of the current ‘netbooks’ and a touch screen device like the iPod touch.

It’s time to Flock away from Explorer

The love affair is only a few months old. It may yet turn into a snarling mess. I installed the Yahoo built browser Flock on my machines looking for a solution that was more stable and sophisticated then Microsoft’s Explorer7. Normally I would have used Opera, which has multi-tabbed browsing and a whole list of cool features including skins. However, I found opera to be slow and crashed enough to be noticeable. Plus, I do a lot of Blog stuff, flickr.com, smugmug.com and many other sites where logging in is required.

Flock promises to be a ’social’ browser. Likely trying to cash in on the ‘facebook’ sensation as well as myspace and even flickr users being so common. In any event, the browser in question performs marvelously. The modernized 50’s motif aside it’s very powerful and well thought out browser. You have a very useful ‘my world’ page as well as active accounts (flickr,etc), a web clipboard, and a few others.

Flock is a multi-tabbed browser which works seamlessly.  I’ve yet to over-tax it with too many tabbed windows open, also, you can open a whole new window and have that multi-tabbed too!  This may be a feature elsewhere, but Flock seems to be reliable enough to surf without the constant “by clicking this will it all go away” fear that explorer generates.

Another plus is that it will run firefox plugins.  Recently I installed a web converter plug-in for firefox right into Flock and it worked like a charm.

To me, Flock seems to be a smoother, gentler and more stable firefox with some pretty cool time saving mechanisms for those dealing with a lot of online accounts.

Trying out Flock is very highly recommended.

Visit the Flock website.