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Can the WoW Magazine quote you on that?
The World of Warcraft Official Magazine has historically featured blurbs from players on all kinds of subjects, and now they want even more of them for upcoming issues. It could even be your quote that makes it to its hallowed pages! Players from both the United States and Europe have the opportunity to contribute their thoughts on a variety of topics, including advice for new 85s, tips for Battle for Gilneas and Twin Peaks, opinions on the hardest raid for its time, and more. Links for U.S. players are below, and links for EU players are after the cut. Get a Quote in the Official WoW Magazine The Official World of Warcraft magazine is looking for a few good quotes, and they could be yours! Hit any of the below threads for a variety of topics, give your best tip, hint, or response, and you could be quoted in a future issue. Have at 'em: Do you have any gaming superstitions? http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2301732824 Where's the craziest place you've played WoW from? http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2301722702 Blackrock Depths memories. http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2301732829 What was the most difficult raid for its time? http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2301732828 What advice would you give someone that just hit 85? http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2301732827 Battle for Gilneas and Twin Peaks tips. http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2301632945#1 source
Flock updated, for real this time
Last week we thought the Firefox-based Flock browser had updated their developer preview to 0.60, adding a slew of new and updated features. A TUAW reader noted a slight mix-up in the actual version that was available for download, and everyone was left scratching their head.Over the weekend, I noticed that they actually have updated the developer preview - to version 0.5.11. While the version numbers are different, I'm pretty sure the added/updated features are still right on the money, and there's quite a few of them. As you can see in the release notes, new features include: Firefox-like auto-updating, a second online bookmark service, Shadows.com (which adds some neat ideas to the del.icio.us bookmark sharing paradigm), the ability to keep some bookmarks private, spell checking (c'mon, Firefox!), drag and drop Flickr uploading, better blogging and RSS engines, and much more.Once again, while this is still a developer preview (which means it will act funny and crash from time to time), I highly recommend checking out Flock if you'd like to see what a "social web browser" is all about.
Flock updates to 0.60, adds features
We've covered Flock before, but just in case you didn't catch our previous posts, here's a quick rundown: Flock is an OS X/Linux/Windows open source "social web browser" built on the Firefox core, offering various well-integrated tools for contributing back to the web you're browsing. Amongst other things, it has a built-in blogging tool, bookmarks are saved to online sharing services (del.icio.us, and now Shadows), Flickr surfing/uploading and a whole lot more.I bring this all back up because I just noticed that Flock has updated their developer preview to version 0.60, with a lot of additions and improvements: drag and drop Flickr uploading, searching Flickr by tags and text, a new blog editing engine with support for categories in WordPress and other MovableType-based blogs, the shelf can act as a topbar, a new online bookmark service (Shadows.com) with support for private online favorites (del.icio.us doesn't do that), a Technorati topbar, a better RSS reader and more.While Flock is still a developer preview - which really means pre-beta - I recommend you still give it a look. I heard a podcast interview with one of their higher-ups who didn't recommend anyone pick it up as their main browser, but they still do a good number of things that either haven't been done in other browsers, or simply aren't done nearly as well through plugins and extensions. You can download the developer preview here, as well as a full list of release notes and changes here.[UPDATE: I'm not sure what's up with the Flock download page, but version 0.60 is apparently not available for download (the links point to the previous 0.4.10 version). TUAW reader Joel noted in the comments that the most recent version, 0.5.10, is available from the hourly builds page.]
