goodbye macjournal, hello flock!
April 20th, 2008
My relationship with MacJournal was indeed short lived. I noticed right off the bad that it wasn’t translating special characters properly and I don’t want to have to worry myself with plain text this and unicode that. I just want the thing to work; post my content to my blog and keep an offline copy for me. Is that so much to ask?
Not that MacJournal is a bad app, mind you. This isn’t a scathing review and I’m not discouraging you from trying it out for yourself. What I do want to say though is this: MacJournal sucked for me and Flock most definitely does not. 
Flock isn’t an offline editor. At least that’s not all it is. Flock, in actuality, is web browser that has the meat and bones of Firefox, with the skin, hair, and brains of a social networking application. If any of you have been following me for any length of time, you’ll know that I have a love/hate relationship with social networking and that because of the work that I do, I pretty much have to at least try having a profile on every single social networking platform that exists. It gets exhausting. That’s where Flock comes in.
Flock manages updates from my friends across several of my existing social networks, handles feeds, media, and yes, even helps me upload content like blog posts. I’m writing using Flock this very second. Awesome, huh?
The best part, as I mentioned a post prior to this one, is that I can publish the same content to several sites. So, if a blog is personal, I can send it off to blogger, xanga, and soon, MySpace. It even has a photo uploader for uploading to various pic hosting sites online.
I’ve only been using Flock for a few days and I’m already impressed with it as an app. I’m hesitant to say that I like it as a browser. The interface is pretty catered to social networking and there are very few options when it comes to changing that. It can also be a little bit difficult to figure out because there’s so much going on. There seem to be a few quirks too, that I’ve only brushed across a few times, but overall…it’s looking great so far.
That’s about all I can offer as a first impression review. I’d encourage you to download a copy yourself and check it out if you’re in to the whole “social network” or “blogging” thing online. It just may make your life a lot easier.
Tags: flock, browser, macjournal, offline post editing, blogging, MySpace, social networking
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