Comments on: Joining The Flock

by: Kelmon

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:59:07 +0000

In Reply to #7:

I’d heard about this program but must confess that I misunderstood it’s function. I had thought that it allowed each browser to store its passwords in the application itself but did not realise that it stored the passwords in Keychain AND also shared them across browsers. It’s a shame that the price is a bit steep ($29.99) but I’ll definitely get a copy this month. Thanks very much for the tip.

Now, if only they can sort out the Network Preferences (and I have seen Mozilla working on a solution) gripe I’d be a very happy man…

by: David

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:05:31 +0000

Re: the OS X Keychain, that too was one of my biggest gripes with Firefox, and of course Flock as well. Version 3 of Firefox promises to fix that, but if you don't want to wait that long, try using the 1Passwd Password Manager for OS X. 1Passwd has extensions for Firefox, Flock, Camino, and Safari to allow all of them to use the *same* keychain, and therefore easily share passwords and saved forms. It also brings the AuoFill goodness of Safari to Firefox & Flock.

by: Joining The Flock » Project Syndicate

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 05:08:01 +0000

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by: Kelmon

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:57:39 +0000

Oh, one thing that I didn’t mention in the article (sorry about this) is that I replaced the stock form widgets in Flock with those provided by a Mac application called “Firefoxy“. This program is designed for Firefox (who’d have thought it…?) but works fine with Flock. If you use this to upgrade the ugly Firefox/Flock widgets then just make sure to tell Firefoxy that you are upgrading Firefox 1.5 (since it doen’t directly recognise Flock) and everything works great. I’ve used this now in Firefox and Flock, and it does make forms and the like look MUCH better.

by: Kelmon

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:50:20 +0000

In Reply to #4: Cheers for the comments.

With respect to Flickr (or Photobucket), you don’t need to be a member of either site in order to get (I hope) some benefit from the Photo function. As an example, all of the screenshots in the article are hosted on Flickr so by hovering your cursor over one of them in Flock you should see the “View Photostream” button appear in the bottom-left corner. Click this and you’ll get to see all my pictures; set the stream as a favorite and you’ll be notified of any updates that I post to my account.

While I can’t comment for Photobucket, Flickr does make it pretty easy to find users and groups that post pictures on subjects that interest you or post pictures that are really very good. Once you find some of these the process becomes quite addictive since you’ll often find the “New Pictures” notification appearing on the Photos button and it’s great to see what cool pictures have been posted by those with some talent behind a camera.

When it comes down to blogging with Flock, I found a Flickr account useful because the Photo Bar allowed me to view all my pictures that I’d prepared quickly before dragging the ones that I wanted into the article. But a Flickr (or Photobucket) account certainly isn’t a necessity with Flock, although I do get the impression that they’d like to push you in that direction…