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Cyberdog

Code name assigned to Apple Computer's suite of client software tools for navigating and communicating on the Internet.

Based on Apple's OpenDoc component software technology, Cyberdog treats URLs and other Internet contents as objects that can be dragged and dropped from Cyberdog's Web browser to another Cyberdog application or to the Finder.

Cyberdog is comprised of components that provide integrated access to Usenet newsgroups, email, the World Wide Web, and other Internet services.

One exciting feature offered by Cyberdog is the ability to embed Cyberdog viewers with live Internet connections in OpenDoc documents. When you open the document, the viewer and live data appear in it.

Cyberdog's components include:

  • A notebook and a log to store URLs using drag-and-drop technology (similar to Bookmarks or Favorites features in other browsers).
  • Email and Newsgroup clients.
  • Integrated Data Viewers, which display photos, movies in their own viewing window within the Cyberdog browser window.
  • A Web browser.

The beta version of Cyberdog's Web browser does not run as fast as other Web clients such as Netscape Navigator. Cyberdog also requires a good deal of memory: 8MB of RAM with virtual memory turned on, or 16MB of RAM if virtual memory is not being used.

Home Page: http://cyberdog.apple.com/.

See Also
Client; Internet; Internet Services; Newsgroups; URL; Usenet; Web Browser; World Wide WebI