URL Manager is a repository for your favorite Internet addresses or URLs (Universal Resource Locators).
URL Manager allows you to organize and collect URLs in a hierarchical structure. Organizing bookmarks
between and within folders is easy with Drag & Drop. Drag HyperText links from your Web browser to the
URL Manager window to add a URL to the repository. To access a URL on the Web, Drag & Drop a bookmark
to the window of a Web browser. URL Manager supports Internet Config.
URL Manager Pro adds tight integration with Netscape Navigator or Explorer. With URL Manager Pro you can
add bookmark menus to Navigator's or Explorer's menubar. You can also add bookmarks to URL Manager
from --within-- Navigator/Explorer. URL Manager Pro adds the URL Manager menu to your Web Browser's
menubar. With this menu you can go to your Home Page or Preferred Search Engine, add bookmarks
to the Drop Basket, or start you PPP session with the Open PPP Connection menu command.
URL Manager Pro remembers the last 1000 Web Pages you visited.
Please also read the What's New page on URL Manager's Home Page for details about the new features
of version 1.3.
URL Manager Pro is shareware and costs $25. URL Manager is $15.
Read the How To Pay section below.
Web Page of URL Manager:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~alco/urlm/
USA download site:
http://www.fogcity.com/
Using URL Manager
Use Drag & Drop to organize your URLs.
Drag HyperText links from your Web browser to a URL Manager window to add a URL to the current document.
Use Add Web Page to add the URL of the current Web page in your browser to the current document.
Use Add As Query to save your queries.
Use Sort to sort your bookmarks.
Use Label to colorize your bookmarks.
Drop/Paste text scans for URLs.
Drop any TEXT or HTML file on URL Manager's window and it will scan
the contents for URLs and add to the window any URLs it can find.
To access a URL on the Web, drag a bookmark to the window of a Web browser, or use Open in Web Browser on a selected bookmark to send the URL to your Web browser via Apple Events, or use Double Click.
Use Open in Helper Application on a selected bookmark to send the URL to your preferred Helper application.
URL Manager also features an Internet Helper Dock which shows,
from left to right, all preferred Helper Applications : Web, FTP, E-mail,
News, Telnet, Finger and URL Manager.
URLs can be dropped on the Helper Dock icons and helper applications are launched
automatically or by double clicking on the icons.
Balloon Help is available.
Use Internet Config (ftp://ftp.share.com/pub/internet-configuration/) to define the settings for your preferred Helper applications. If you don't have Internet Config installed, the URL Manager will use the following defaults: http: Netscape Navigator, ftp: Anarchie, mailto: Eudora, gopher: TurboGopher, telnet: NCSA Telnet, news: NewsWatcher.
Use Open… to open URL Manager documents.
Use Open… to open Anarchie and Fetch bookmarks. You can also Drag & Drop Anarchie and Fetch files in an open document window.
Use Import From Browser to import Web Browser bookmarks from the Preferences folder.
Use Import HTML… to import bookmarks which were saved in HTML format.
Use Export As HTML… to export bookmarks to HTML format.
Use the Explore menu to search on the Web.
Use Find… to find a bookmark or URL.
Change your screen font via Internet Config.
Integration With Navigator or Explorer (URL Manager Pro only)
URL Manager Pro can add menus to Navigator's menubar. (Netscape 2.0 or Explorer 2.0 required).
In the Preferences dialog set the check box: "Enable Shared Menus".
New features with this option:
1) You can choose "Add Bookmark" from a new menu in Navigator's menubar. The menu title of this new menu is the
small URL Manager icon. The URL will be saved in the current open (frontmost) URL Manager document.
2) Add bookmark menus to Navigator's menubar. The menus will correspond with folders in the current active URL Manager
document.
3) Add bookmarks to any URL Manager folder from within Navigator.
How To Proceed:
1) The "Add Bookmark" command:
The URL of the current web page will be placed in the URL Manager folder "Drop Basket". After your Internet session
you can organize your URLs by getting them from this folder and putting them in your organized hierarchy.
Furthermore, the bookmark is appended to the "URL Manager" menu.
2) Adding Bookmark menus to Navigator's menubar:
Select a "top level" folder in your hierarchy in a URL Manager document. Choose "Share As Menu" from
the Outline menu. The folder icon changes. Switch to Navigator (by clicking on the "World" icon). You will see a new
menu in Navigator's menubar.
(You don't have to choose the command Refresh Shared menus. This command is only necessary when you
have edited the name or URL of a bookmark.)
3) Perform step 2), then choose the "Add Bookmark" command from your new Navigator menu.
If you want to add a large number of new bookmark menus to Navigator's menubar, you may ran out of space
in your menubar. You can then choose the "Make Room In Menubar" command from the URL Manager menu.
(Navigator only.)
ShortCuts
Double click on a URL icon to open a URL in your favorite helper application.
Use Double click or Move on the Name of URL of a bookmark to edit the text.
Use Return or Enter on a selected bookmark to edit a bookmark.
Click on a selected bookmark to edit a bookmark.
Use Enter or Return to stop editing or click outside of the bookmark.
Use Paste to create a new bookmark from text in the clipboard.
Use Copy to copy a bookmark to HTML format to the clipboard.
Use Clear on a selection to delete the selected bookmarks.
Drag a selection to the trash to delete the selected bookmarks.
Use Option-Drag to copy bookmarks within the same window. Use Drag to copy bookmarks between windows.
Use Option-Drag to drag bookmarks in HTML format.
Use Tab or Arrow Right to expand a folder.
Use Tab or Arrow Left to collapse a folder.
Use Arrow Up/Down, Page Up/Down, Home and End to move trough bookmarks.
Enable Balloon Help and move the cursor over the icon which represents that there is a
description field. The text in the description field will be shown in the Balloon.
URL Manager is shareware
URL Manager Pro is shareware and costs $25. URL Manager is shareware and costs $15.
This program can be licensed for commercial distribution on an annual or per-unit basis.
It may not be sold for profit or included with software which is sold for profit.
How To Pay
URL Manager has the following pricing: $15 per user
URL Manager Pro has the following pricing: $25 per user
Upgrade to Pro:$10
If you want to pay cash, send $15 or $25 in an envelop to Alco Blom. The address is given
in the section "Contacting the author". If you want to pay by credit card or check, read
the next paragraphs.
Paying for URL Manager is fairly simple. Open the Register program that accompanies URL
Manager. Enter your name, your email address, and the number of single user licenses you desire
for each program you wish to purchase (or Site or Word-Wide licenses). Save or Copy or Print
the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi Shareware. More
specifics on the Register program to follow. Kagi Shareware handles my payment processing.
If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or fax the data to Kagi Shareware.
Their email address is shareware@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can
either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save
the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the
data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax
number.
Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an email
acknowledgement when it is processed. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you
provide a correct internet email address you will receive an email acknowledgement.
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the Register
application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is:
Kagi Shareware
1442-A Walnut Street #392-AB
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
You can pay with a wide variety of cash from different countries but at present if you pay via
check, it must be a check drawn in US Dollars. Kagi Shareware cannot accept checks in other
currencies, the conversion rate for non-USD checks is around USD 15 per check and that is just
not practical.
If you have a purchasing department, you can enter all the data into the Register program and then
select Invoice as your payment method. Print three copies of the form and send it to your
accounts payable people. You might want to highlight the line that mentions that they must
include a copy of the form with their payment.
Kagi Shareware can not invoice your company, you need to act on my behalf and generate the
invoice and handle all the paperwork on your end.
Payments send via postal mail take time to reach Kagi Shareware and then up to 10 days for
processing. Again, if you include a correct email address, you will hear from Kagi Shareware
when the form is processed.
Dutch users:
Price is 50 guldens for URL Manager Pro™. Price is 30 guldens for URL Manager™.
Please pay by Postgiro 761819, t.n.v. A.Q.W. Blom, Amsterdam. Specify your e-mail address.
Protection
URL Manager has a protection scheme and when you pay, we tell you how to indicate to URL Manager
that you have paid the shareware fee. If you do not have an email address, please enter
your complete postal address and please remember, we do not know what country you live in so
please enter that into the postal address also.
Acknowledgements
I'd like to thank Darien Kruss for his important feedback on URL Manager 1.0 and his excellent
online documentation. Thanks to Will Mayall of Fog City Software for putting URL Manager
on Fogcity's Home Page and important feedback on URL Manager Pro. Thanks to Jason Larson
