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 or double click. URL Manager is Internet Config savvy.
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.
Also, URL Manager Pro remembers the last 1000 Web Pages you visited.
URL Manager Pro is shareware and costs $25.
URL Manager Lite may NOT be distributed on the Internet.
URL Manager Lite is for your personal use only.
Home Page of URL Manager Pro:
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~alco/urlm/>
Documentation
Complete documentation of URL Manager is available on the WWW. Choose Online Documentation from the Help Menu in URL Manager to get there.
Using URL Manager Lite
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 create a bookmark for the current Web page in your browser.
Use Add As Query to save your queries.
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 the Explore menu to search on the Web.
Use Find… to find a bookmark or URL.
Change your screen font via Internet Config.
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.
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 and Guy Kawasaki of Fog City Software for putting URL Manager on Fogcity's Home Page and important feedback on URL Manager Pro. Thanks to Jason Larson for beta testing URL Manager Pro.
