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A bookmark manager deluxe, URL Manager Pro 1.4 gives you the feeling that you might actually be able to organize all those sites and Internet applications after all. You can begin to consider the Internet as an extension of your filing system, rather than as a bad neighborhood that you have to walk through to get home. There is a complete list of its features, as well as the other programs I will mention on its Web page, but I'll whet your appetite.

Its main capability is integration with your Web browser, be it Netscape or Explorer, or even AOL. It adds its own icon to their menubar, making it easy to add the current page as a bookmark, with an option to add your own personal description.

You can easily switch to URL Manager, and organize them into hierarchical folders like folders in the Finder. They can be edited and searched directly and quickly. Favorites can now be colorized for emphasis.

You can save sets of bookmarks as separate documents, opening with your default set(s), but maintaining a link to other sets via a drop-down "cabinet" menu which is also available in your browser. The bookmark sets gives you almost unlimited capability, while conserving RAM by only opening the set(s) you want. You can drag-n-drop bookmarks between the sets; you can import the bookmark set from your browser or export a set to the browser, replacing its own bookmarks. It can import or export as HTML or tab-delineated text, if you want to put them in a database. It can even import email address books!

Working with Internet Config, Fetch, Newswatcher, E-Mailer, Eudora, and many others, it will launch the appropriate application for a bookmark's type. You can also have a mini-dock launcher, showing them all as icons. Scanning a Web page, it can grab all the URL's, putting them into a separate bookmark file. It can also scan any HTML or TEXT file for URL's. With an add-on, you can add bookmarks from Eudora just like from a browser.

There's an extra drop-down menu for search engines, and a small tool bar across the top for common functions. It can be set to launch automatically with your browser. Last, but not least, there is a History function to track Web sites, saving up to 1000 of them. This list, unlike a browsers,' survives between sessions. If you, like me, empty your browser cache at the end of every session to increase stability, then you'll appreciate being able to look for sites you forgot to bookmark.

Phew! That's enough whetting. Just go and get it. You won't be sorry.

Download URL Manager Pro 1.4

URL Manager Pro works with Big Brother 1.1 . You can check your Web bookmarks to see if they're still valid. If a page has been moved, and it can still follow the link, the bookmark will be updated! You should, however, double-check its findings with your browser before tossing a bookmark. It's sometimes wrong, and they still work fine; but at least it tells you which ones need checking. Especially useful if you have some old bookmarks lying around.

Download Big Brother 1.1

You should have Internet Config 1.3 (extension and application), to use al these programs properly. It stores sets of preferences for most Internet applications, allowing them to work together better, and allowing you to better control who does what with what (sorry for the overly technical jargon).

Download Internet Config 1.3

ICeTEe 2 (extension) comes with URL Manager Pro. It works with such programs as Eudora, SimpleText, NotePad, DOCMaker and others that use TextEdit for editing, enabling them to launch URL addresses by simply Command-clicking on them, (when you're online) firing up the proper application to go there. It also enables you to grab URLs to enter as bookmarks from any text file, if URL Manager Pro is also running.

This control panel extends the idea of the clipboard, much like some others, but in a novel and elegant way. It creates a clipping file (or files), that automatically accept clippings when you hit a Configurarble F-Key (it works even on non-extended keyboards like mine). You never even have to leave the document you're reading.

It not only pastes them in, but adds a customizable separator between them (good idea or you'd have a jumble to sort through). If you have the Clipping Extension (from Apple, included with system 7.5.x), it can even create separate text-clipping files. This is quick way to save URL's that can later be scanned or dropped into URL Manager, or into a bookmark set. But I use Clipfiler more to pick out several discontinuous bits of info from long articles.

Download ClipFiler 2.3

Fenton Jones (manavesh@mymac.com)

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