My Tech Talk

The ultra-cool new web browser, Flock, incorporates a blog editor for speedy posting.  I thought I’d try this out with this post.

Here’s how I used the blog editor in Flock:

1. I surfed the web with Flock for an article to blog about.
2.  Once I found one, I went to the VIEW menu, the sidebars sub-menu and then clicked on the “Web Clipboard”.
3. With the web clipboard now a visible column on the left, I dragged/dropped a link and an image onto the sidebar.
4. Next, I went to the TOOLS menu and chose the “Blog Editor” tool and a new window opened.
5. On the blog editor window, I again went to the VIEW menu and chose sidebar and clicked on “web clipboard”.
6. In the blog editor, I see the link and the image that I previously saved to the clipboard in step 3.
7. I drag n’ drop the saved link and image into the body of the blog editor to use in the post.

All in all,  that’s an easy way to post to your blog from your web browser.  The blog editor is fairly basic, not a lot of whistles and bells, but it’ll help you post quickly.  Here are some of the features included in the blog editor:

• Choose Font, Size, Bold/Italic/Underline, color
• Bullets or numbers for creating lists
• Indent buttons
• Button to create link
• Button to insert images (if you haven’t used the web clipboard)

Before Flock can send the post to your blog, you’ll need to configure your blog account into the Flock blog editor. It can be configured for a blog hosted on a free service like WordPress.com or a self-hosted blog. This is done from the TOOLS menu in the Blog Editor.

When you’re ready to publish your post, you can choose to create the entry as a new post or to replace an existing one.  You can also assign categories.

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SAMPLE LINK:

http://www.engadget.com/ 2008/ 07/ 12/ kodak-intros-the-c913-m1073-is-and-m1063-chea…

SAMPLE IMAGE: