You never quite know what a menu item will do, because the same words mean different things in different places. It’s confusing, and made more confusing by URL Manager Pro itself. The chief fault lies, of course, with those Internet programs, of which some support shared menus and some don’t, some support certain Apple events and some don’t, and so forth. Tough Row to Hoe - URL Manager Pro’s weakness is the inconsistency of the implementation of its features across different Internet programs. You can drag the address from the browser into the bookmark file you can choose Add Bookmark from URL Manager Pro’s Dock icon menu while the browser window is frontmost you can choose Add Bookmark from the browser’s shared menu if it has one and in some browsers you can even Control-click a link and choose Add Link to URL Manager Pro from the contextual menu. Similarly, there are various ways to add a URL from your browser to the bookmark file. (An accompanying "menulet," Mondriaan, lets you access a limited set of separately determined URLs even when URL Manager Pro isn’t running.) But you don’t need to work in URL Manager Pro’s window just to open a URL the bookmark file can also be displayed hierarchically in the program’s Dock menu, and even, in the case of Internet Explorer, Opera, and iCab, as a normal ("shared") menu amongst the browser’s own. Double-clicking a URL opens it in your browser or you can drag it into a browser. You can add a note to each URL, as well as set various other options. The window displays an outline of folders (categories) and URLs within them you can rearrange these as one would expect of an outline. Laying Out the Garden - A URL Manager Pro window represents a bookmark file you’re not limited to one such file, but I like having just one that opens when URL Manager Pro does. To put it simply, if I had to list the top five utilities without which I could never have made the switch to Mac OS X, URL Manager Pro would be one of them. I have been using it in various development versions for months now, but it has just gone final as version 3.0, which seems an appropriate opportunity to recommend it. In this moment of need, Alco Blom’s URL Manager Pro saved my bacon. With abrupt clarity, I knew I needed a separate, browser-agnostic URL keeper to act as a central repository. But even more important, I no longer had a browser of choice – in this brave new world, I have been experimenting with several browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, OmniWeb, and others) that clamor for my attention. The problem was partly migrating my settings from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X and keeping them coordinated in case I switched back. All that changed, though, in the move to Mac OS X. Such preserved URLs are often referred to as "bookmarks." Adam wrote a three-part article in 1996 on bookmark management software and techniques, but at the time I paid scant attention, since my browser of choice, Internet Explorer, handled them adequately, providing a hierarchical menu for choosing "favorite" URLs and an outline interface for arranging them.
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