I'm an unpaid, unofficial Microsoft evangelist. Call me a fanboy or whatever, I just don't care about your opinion of me (but that's completely beside the point).

I'm extremely happy being on Vista Ultimate, I think it's a great operating system if you've got the machine to support it. Yes, I had to upgrade my laptop to 2G of RAM due to the development environments that I run. Big deal, well worth the $180 bucks.

I'm also enamored with IE7. Great browser, nice features, simplified interface.

But I gotta tell you, in just a few short hours of working with it I've fallen head-over-heels in love with Flock 0.9.0. The features I love most:

1. The search box and the auto-detection of search boxes. It found search boxes just about everywhere (except at YubNub, for some reason). [UPDATE: The Install YubNub page points to a Firefox extension that works great]
   
2. Integration with del.icio.us and flickr
   
3. The blog editor rocks and was what led me to open this LiveJournal. Spell checking! I love it.
4. The feed reader looks really nice. But three complaints:
1. Can't seem to make unread posts go away. A filter would be nice.
2. No clue where to go to see how often the feeds are updated.
3. Feed Collections (aka folders) always have their label in bold. My peripheral vision tells me that this means there are unread posts in the collection. But that's not the case.
5. My World totally rocks! Both inside the browser and in real life, by the way.

So, go get Flock!

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Tags: browsers, flock, social web