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Flock: A New Blog Friendly Web Browser (UPDATED)
I’ve been looking at the Flock web browser (For Windows, Linux, and Mac) for some time now, but it finally seems like it might be getting developed enough to be useful. Flock is based on the Gecko engine that is used in Firefox, so it’s works basically as well as that browser. The major difference with Flock is that it’s designed to integrate directly into many popular blogging and social networking sites (like Flickr, Photobucket, YouTube, MySpace, etc.) to make it easier to access your accounts and update your pages. Of course WordPress.com and a standalone WordPress install are both supported.
If you are tired of Internet Explorer and want to try out something different, give Flock a look. Even if you already use Firefox, you might find Flock to be an interesting alternative.
UPDATED: Apparently there is a Mac OS X version. It is strange though that they aren’t very obvious that that version exists if you go to their website–their “Versions” page is down also.
PhotoPress Theme Now Available
A new theme specifically designed for Photoblogging has been released. Photopress is a one column theme that’s designed to give much more room for thumbnails on the main page for greater display of your images to visitors. Of course this could also apply to comics or other types of artwork also.
WPZipper updated, now with AWSOM plugins
I just received an email from the administrators of the WPZipper.com website to let me know that they’ve updated their site and also added the AWSOM plugins to their database. WPZipper.com is a website designed to take plugins and themes and add them to a WordPress install archive so that you have a fully set up file set to upload to your web server (instead of having to add all of the stuff yourself individually).
If you happen to need to set up multiple sites with the same configuration it’s a real time saver. Heck, the fact that they have a ton of plugins and themes in one spot makes it a decent search database even if you don’t care about the archive building function.
Contact Form plugin updated to 2.0.4
The Contact Form with Spam Protection that I use on this site as my contact form has just been updated to 2.0.4. by the developer. It contains a few bug fixes and some small improvements. It’s a great way to handle being contacted without having to put your email address up for every spambot to grab.
Where Else to Get WordPress Answers
It’s easy to miss things with how big the internet is these days. For example, one of the quickest and easiest ways to get basic answers on WordPress questions is to go to their support forum area . In general unless your question is super specific to one plugin, or is so open ended as to be impossible to answer, you’ll usually get some feedback pretty quickly–at least enough to get an idea of where to keep looking for the answer. I have to admit their search function isn’t that great there though.
On the reverse side, It’s funny how I have to go looking sometimes for people looking to get answers to questions about my plugins hosted here. I usually look around every few days and answer things there If I find them, but it’s actually easiest to use my contact form on this site, or go to Harknell.com and post if you want answers about any of the AWSOM plugins. I’m pretty open to contact on things and try to answer as quickly as I can. Plus the feedback helps in future development.