Here's a question for you. Do you use online photo–sharing sites like Flickr or Photo bucket? Do you keep a blog somewhere? Are you the same kind of socialite as I? Do you find it annoying and difficult to get the damned pictures from your camera to your blog? Even more annoying when you want to re–use them or reference them elsewhere? If you said "yes" to any one of these questions, then flock might be worth looking at.
What is flock? In a word, social. Flock is a version of FireFox, already a great product, that has a re–designed interface intended for socialites. You can easily write posts to multiple blogs, add and edit pictures to any number of picture sites, including Flickr and Photo Bucket, and even drag and drop a picture into an HTML form. When you do, the system uploads the picture to flickr automatically, then inserts the IMG tag into your form, making it drop–dead easy to use and re–use pictures in any forum that accepts HTML. Cool, ne?
One other feature is worth mentioning: snippets. Flock supports the notion of grabbing a web page as a snippet. When you write a blog entry about that page, you need only drag and drop the snippet (like this http://lowroad75.comicgenesis.com/comics/20060610.jpg), and the system inserts the HTML code to point to it. If you just drag and drop the snippet, you just get the URL to it. If you right click and select copy HTML, you get this:
, (height and width tags are edited) which is a fully cited link to the resource. Nice trick, ne?
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