New browser

I have been experimenting with a new web browser for the last few weeks: Flock. It is beta and based on the Mozilla engine that powers Firefox.

I was not unhappy with Firefox, but there are some very nice features in Flock. Even though it is beta, it is stable. I haven't managed to crash it yet :) Of course, there are rough edges, like the tabbed browsing extension doesn't work right. But, that is minor compared to two really sweet features:

RSS reader built-in

Just push Ctl-Shift-N and up pops a tab with all your RSS feeds plus a "Home Page" with the unread items

"Blog this" feature

Highlight something on a webpage, right click and select "Blog this".
I use this, but edit the source HTML and then paste it into the blogger "create post" window. But, you can publish directly if you wish.

There are other features that seem interesting, but are largely irrelevant to me. Definitely worth a look and download. After all, it's open source and free.