Tutorial - URL Manager Pro
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1. as you move the icon over different bookmarks It tells you where the bookmark will appear in your list should you let go of the mouse button ER Tutorial A URL Manager Pro s Home Page Use PayPal to register Use Kagi to register ET an E CA By the same author Organizing bookmarks by drag and drop In most cases you won t find it useful to have two identical bookmarks in the same folder But maybe you would like to place the same bookmark in a different folder AAT Tutorial For example you might want to have a link to the URL Manager Pro Web site in your Macintosh Links folder In this case click on the icon of the duplicate bookmark hold down the mouse button and drag and drop it to that folder You now have the same bookmark in two locations While you will probably find it a little easier to manage your bookmarks if you keep only a single copy of each bookmark it may be useful to have duplicate bookmarks in some cases For example you may want to keep a copy of the bookmark for the Netscape Web site in both your Mac applications and Internet folders Or you may want to keep Yahoo in both your News and Search folders You can also delete bookmarks you don t need anymore Let s delete the duplicate bookmark we just created Open the Macintosh Links folder Select the URL Manager Pro icon Press the Backspace key to delete this bookmark Tip To delete multiple bookmarks select them all and then press the Backspa2. Add to folder Enter a note for this bookmark URL http www washingtonpost com A ue du 1 PR Add Bookmark Window Tip At the time you create a bookmark you may think that the contents of a Web page are obvious from its name or URL and that it is unnecessary to fill in a note However after using URL Manager Pro for a while most people find that they have a very large and continually growing collection of bookmarks After a while you may have a hard time finding a bookmark you saved in the past or remembering why you saved a bookmark This is particularly true in the case of a URL buried deep within a Web site If you add a one or two line note at the time you save a URL your bookmarks will be easier to manage and you will more easily be able to find a bookmark again Click the Add button and this bookmark will now be added to URL Manager Pro Please switch to URL Manager Pro Look for the Drop Basket folder New bookmarks you add using the Add Bookmark command are stored by default in the Drop Basket folder If a Drop Basket folder does not yet exist it is created automatically However as you can see in the picture above by using the folder popup menu you can specify another destination folder if you want to In the Drop Basket folder you will find an icon called Washington Post 13 Tutorial y lt Drop Basket Gi Washington Post A http www washingtonpost com The Drop Basket is
3. always shown in red To the left of the title you will see the bookmark icon If you added a note for this bookmark you Il see the Clipboard icon directly to the left of the URL This serves as a reminder that there is a note attached to the bookmark Move over it with the mouse and the note will appear in a tool tip http fwww apple com ca Washington DC Daily lt t com http www twincities com mld pi A bookmark note shown in a tool tip To view and edit the bookmark go to the Bookmark menu and select Get Info The Get Info window will appear showing information about the bookmark including the Name URL and Note field and several advanced options Note You can modify the name and note if you wish but we recommend you do not change the URL If so much as one letter is changed to be incorrect you will be unable to reopen this Web page For the moment you can leave your new bookmarks in the Drop Basket but in most cases you will eventually want to move items in the Drop Basket to other folders depending on how you want to sort your bookmarks In some cases however you may already know which folder you would like to save a bookmark to In the next section you will learn how to save a bookmark directly into a specific folder Adding a Bookmark using the Bookmark Menu Extra or Shared Menu In this section we will create a new folder and save a bookmark directly into the new folder First switch to URL Manager
4. not an extension to your Internet applications but a standalone program it does not consume memory when you are not using it URL Manager Pro is a Mach O bundled application Mac OS X native and is localized in English Japanese German French Italian and Spanish Tutorial Getting Started Introduction The Getting Started section contains a tutorial to help you get up to speed quickly using URL Manager Pro In this tutorial you will be introduced to the following topics e Opening Web Pages e Adding bookmarks to URL Manager Pro e Organizing your bookmarks The Sample file To follow the tutorial please locate the bookmark file Sample You can find it in the URL Manager Pro folder Sample contains a collection of bookmarks Note Bookmarks contain Universal Resource Locators URLs the format in which Internet addresses are stored A URL is represented in URL Manager Pro as a bookmark By exploring the sample collection of bookmarks you will get a sense of the power and versatility of URL Manager Pro Naturally as soon as you familiarize yourself with the way the program works you will want to start your own collection of bookmarks Opening Web Pages You can open Web pages from bookmarks stored in URL Manager Pro in one of four ways The first way is by opening a bookmark from within URL Manager Pro The second way is by using URL Manager Pro s Bookmark Menu Extra or Shared Bookmark Menu feature for opening a Web page fr
5. the Special Features section of the User s Manual Reference section Adding Bookmarks to URL Manager Pro from within your browser First switch to your browser Let s say you are on a Web page that you would like to save as a bookmark in URL Manager Pro for example http www washingtonpost com For the purposes of this tutorial open the home page of this well known newspaper in your Web browser If you use the Bookmark Menu Extra click the document icon menu and select the command Add Bookmark If you use Shared Menus go to the Sample or My Bookmarks Shared Menu and select the first command Add Bookmark If you use the Dock Menu Control Click the URL Manager Pro icon in the Dock and select the command Add Bookmark The Add Bookmark Window will appear see next page By default the title of the Web page is displayed as the name of the bookmark but you can enter any text you wish In this case the default is 12 Tutorial washingtonpost com nation world technology and Washington Let s rename it simply Washington Post In the empty box underneath the note field you can enter a description of this Web page This is useful for keeping pertinent information about this page Let s add a note for example Washington DC daily O Add Bookmark Edit the name of this bookmark washingtonpost com nation world technology and Washington Add to document My Bookmarks H Drop Basket t
6. By default its name is Empty Folder The title field is highlighted so that you can give it a more meaningful name Let s call it Washington DC Newspapers Press the Enter key to save this name Now select the Washington Post icon with your mouse button Keeping the mouse button depressed drag this icon on top of the Washington DC Newspapers folder icon Now double click the Washington DC Newspapers folder to open it The Washington Post icon will be in this folder Double click the folder again to close it By using subfolders you can manage large collections of bookmarks much more easily Say for example you are developing a large collection of newspaper Web site bookmarks By arranging them in subfolders such as by city state province and or country you will find it much easier to manage your collection as it grows In the above example you moved a bookmark from one folder to another Sometimes you will want to create a duplicate copy of a bookmark You can do this in several ways Say for example you would like to create a duplicate copy of a bookmark in the same folder Let s try this by going to the Tutorial folder Open it by double clicking it Select URL Manager Pro s Home Page icon to highlight it Press the Option key and start dragging the icon Move the icon below the email icon of the last bookmark in the folder and release A copy of the bookmark will appear Note the underline that the program draws see below
7. Pro Go to the Bookmark menu and select the command New Folder At the bottom of the window a new folder will appear called Empty Folder You ll see its label is highlighted you ll want to give it a more distinctive name If you select a bookmark or folder first the new folder will be created just under the selection Let s call it Newspapers Now go back to your browser If you don t already have an active Internet connection open one Go to the Washington Post Web site http www washingtonpost com It is sufficient to only type washingtonpost in the browser s Location field In the previous exercise you saved the bookmark of this site to the Drop Basket But let s say that you would prefer to save this bookmark into a different folder one you have already created for this kind of site 14 Tutorial If you look at the right of your menu bar you will see the Bookmark Menu Extra If you use Shared Menus look at the menu bar and next right to the URL Manager Pro Shared Icon Menu you will see a menu called Sample or My Bookmarks These bookmarks menus will show all your bookmarks in the current open URL Manager Pro document Go the Newspapers submenu You will see just one command displayed Add Bookmark Select this command The Add Bookmark Window will appear By default the title of the Web page is displayed as the name of the bookmark but you can enter any text you wish Let s rename it simply to
8. Tutorial URL Manager Pro Tutorial Version 3 3 Summer 2004 http www url manager com Email mailto support url manager com Copyright 2004 Alco Blom All Rights Reserved Tutorial Installation Requirements URL Manager Pro 3 3 requires Mac OS X 10 2 or higher On Mac OS X 10 1 you can use URL Manager Pro 3 1 1 URL Manager Pro 2 8 is still available for Mac OS 8 users The bundle size of URL Manager Pro 3 3 is around 8 MB including this user manual and localizations for English Japanese German French Spanish and Italian which are all included in the default package Installing Installation is very easy just move URL Manager Pro into the Applications folder To start using URL Manager Pro simply double click the application icon Optional You may want to install the Add Bookmark Contextual Menu Item plug in The Add Bookmark plug in can be installed using the URLs tab of the Preferences Window of URL Manager Pro The plug in will then be copied to Library Contextual Menu Items Where is the customary Unix shorthand to indicate the user s home directory For more information go to the Add Bookmark Web page or the Contextual Menu Item section in the Special Features chapter The Bookmark Menu Extra While URL Manager Pro is running it automatically adds the Bookmark Menu Extra to the menu bar With the Bookmark Menu Extra you have access to your bookmarks from within any application including
9. Washington Post In the empty box underneath you can enter a description of this Web page This is useful for keeping pertinent information about this page and helping you remember its contents Let s add a note for example A Washington DC daily newspaper Click the Add button Switch back to URL Manager Pro using the Command U shortcut of the URL Manager Pro Icon menu If you use the Bookmark Menu Extra you can also use the shortcut Option Command U please enable this hotkey via the Preferences Window of URL Manager Pro If you open the Newspapers folder icon by double clicking it you will see the bookmark you just saved located here It will have a Clipboard icon to the right of the bookmark reminding you that there is a note attached to it You will find the ability to save a bookmark to a specific folder extremely useful when you are collecting bookmarks of a similar type such as the Web sites of newspapers for example Most of the time you will find that you save bookmarks to URL Manager Pro either by means of the Add Bookmark command of the Bookmark Menu Extra or Shared Bookmark Menu or as in the above example the Add Bookmark command in a submenu However if you have been surfing the Web for a while without URL Manager Pro you may have built up a substantial collection of bookmarks in your Web browser Wouldn t it be nice to move this collection into URL Manager Pro In the next section you will learn how to do this Importi
10. browser window to open the bookmark Option drag Option drag and drop a bookmark to a text editor for example BBEdit to put the bookmark in an HTML tag 21 Close box Option click Close box Ctrl click HTML tag Get Info Window Cmd Cmd Cmd N Cmd P Global Menu Icon Option click Global Hot Keys Cmd Option U Cmd Ctrl Cmd Shift D Global Hot Keys Other page down page up home end Cmd Cmd or escape Tutorial Close all windows Discard all changes and close window For example lt a href http www url manager com gt Home Page lt a gt Display enclosed bookmarks Display enclosing folder Display next bookmark Display previous bookmark Switch to URL Manager Pro Switch to URL Manager Pro Select next bookmark file Add Bookmark Global Menu You must first enable these under URL Manager Pro s Miscellaneous preferences tab Scrolls down by one page Scrolls up by one page Scrolls to the beginning or end of the page respectively Stops validating Cancels most of URL Manager Pro s modal windows and panels 299
11. ccess to its bookmarks from within your browser in three different ways the Bookmark Menu Extra the Bookmark Shared Menu and the Dock Menu The Bookmark Menu Extra shows all your bookmarks and is located in the Menu Extras or menulets area of the menu bar in Mac OS X The Bookmark Menu Extra s icon is the URL Manager Pro document icon left of Wed in the picture below Wed 13 03 08 4 06 The document icon menu at the left is the Bookmark Menu Extra If you click on the document icon menu you will see that it lists all the folders and bookmarks in the current open bookmark file It also has a command to bookmark the current Web page The Bookmark Menu Extra is the preferred way of accessing and adding your bookmarks The Dock Menu appears when you Control Click on the URL Manager Pro icon in the Mac OS X Dock Again you will see that the submenu Sample with the URL Manager Pro document icon shows all the folders and bookmarks in the current open bookmark file Sample in this example Tutorial My Bookmarks v Sample Ci Add Bookmark Sample T Cabinet gt Select gt Read Daily Show In Finder P Quit J Dock Menu Shared Menus are new menus appended to the menu bar of your Web browser and other Internet applications Called the URL Manager Pro Shared Icon Menu and URL Manager Pro Shared Bookmark Menu they contain a number of useful URL Manager Pro commands which al
12. ce key There are times when you will want to find a bookmark quickly without opening folders To do this you can use URL Manager Pro s Search or Find function Use the Search function to see all search results at once and use the Find function to step through a Find step by step To use Search choose Search from the Edit menu A drawer window will show with a search bar see below Enter the text you want to find in the search bar and press return rw pren OOO 5 Y w 4 A WWW Email Cabinet Faves Info Search Fonts Qv apple Name Unregistered v 3 Tutorial 6 occurrences s URL Manager Pro s Home Page 0 Name s Use PayPal to register s Apple About Apple Mailing Lists s Use Kagi to register The Ultimate Mac Resource EJ Contact the author Apple Computer QuickTime HotPicks si URL Manager Pro s Home Page QuickTime Movie Trailers a T By the same author Apple Developer v 3 Other Browsers s iCab s Opera Where Tutorial v Magazines URL http wwwr lists apple com Unregistered OG ys A The Search Drawer with Search bar To experiment with the Find feature go to the Edit menu and select Find The Find Window box will appear Enter the text you want to search for in the Find field which is highlighted lt 18 Tutorial For example enter Dilbert Press the Find button The Find function locates a bookmark that contains the text Dilbert in the More Magazines fo
13. dit menu and select the command Select All Now drag the selection to the target document i e Sample All of the icons in the import file will be added to the existing collection You now are familiar with the basic techniques of adding bookmarks to URL Manager Pro and opening bookmarks saved in URL Manager Pro In the next section we will start to explore some of URL Manager Pro s sophisticated features for organizing your bookmarks This is where you will discover some of the important advantages of storing your bookmarks in URL Manager Pro rather than in your Web browser s bookmarks menu Organizing your bookmarks In this section you are going to acquire some basic skills that will help you organize your bookmarks You will learn how to create copy and delete bookmarks You will also learn how to search for a bookmark In the previous examples you learned how to create an untitled bookmark using the New Bookmark command in the Bookmark menu You also learned how to create a new folder using the New Folder command in the Bookmark menu and how to add bookmarks to it Now you will create a folder within a folder called a subfolder and copy a bookmark to it Let s use the example we used above Open the Newspapers folder It will contain the bookmark for the Washington Post Web site Select the Washington Post icon to highlight it Go to the Bookmark menu and select New Folder 16 Tutorial A new folder will now appear
14. e suggest you create two folders in your Bookmarks folder One named Cabinet and one named Startup Items Put all your bookmark files in the Cabinet folder Then make an alias of your primary bookmark file and put the alias in the Startup Items folder In the picture below you can see how your hierarchy of bookmark files should look in the case for a user with user name alco eee Bookmarks Documents alco 1 Back pi Users cations i Mac OS X Alco Blom s Computer ex Startup Items The paths of the Cabinet and Startup Items folders The URL Manager Pro folder includes a bookmark file called Sample Sample contains a small collection of bookmarks that we refer to in the tutorial Getting Started These bookmarks will also be useful to help you get started exploring the Web with URL Manager Pro Please move the file Sample to the Startup Items folder as defined in the above hierarchy when you want to follow the Getting Started tutorial Tutorial User Manual The User Manual is part of the URL Manager Pro package You can choose the following commands from the Help menu in URL Manager Pro e URL Manager Pro Help e Shared Menus Help e Keyboard Shortcuts e User Manual URL Manager Pro is an application URL Manager Pro works with popular Internet applications including Safari Microsoft Internet Explorer OmniWeb Firefox Camino Mozilla Netscape iCab and Opera Because URL Manager Pro is
15. ed To alco ur l manager com alcoPur L manager com To alcoPur l manager com Subject pair Networks Insider September 2003 From sigma pair com Kevin Martin Reply To infofpair com Date Wed 24 Sep 2003 16 37 32 0400 EDT X Spam Filtered 16a34eb982fde 6dcecela82d4 d81e74 X Spam Status No hits 183 3 required 3 5 tests MONEY_BACK USER_IN_WHITELIST BAYES_14 OFFER X Spam F lag NO X Spam Level Choose the Add Bookmark command from the Bookmark Menu Extra or Shared URL Manager Pro Icon Menu Alternatively you can use the Grab All command under the URL Manager Pro File menu to extract all email addresses from a message Although you can easily store your Web page bookmarks and your email addresses in the respective bookmarks and address books of your browser and email program you may find it ultimately more convenient and secure to store all your bookmarks email addresses and the like in one central location URL Manager Pro This makes it easier to move from one browser or email program to another even from one computer to another Furthermore URL Manager Pro is especially adept at helping you manage large collections of bookmarks This concludes the Getting Started with URL Manager Pro tutorial By now you are acquainted with the main features of URL Manager Pro You can explore the program further on your own or use the Reference section to learn more about additional specific features 20 Tutorial Keyboa
16. er Pro Home Page is loaded take a moment to view the contents of this page You ll find it offers links to many useful things such as the latest version of URL Manager Pro in various languages documentation support addresses and the like To find out which version of URL Manager Pro you have go to the URL Manager Pro menu and select About URL Manager Pro You will see a window that displays the version number If a later that is a higher numbered version of URL Manager Pro is available on our Web site click on a download link and you will be prompted to download it to your computer Once the file transfer has been completed exit URL Manager Pro open the file you downloaded and install the newer version of URL Manager Pro by replacing the application in the URL Manager Pro folder with the newer version Restart URL Manager Pro You are now up to date We recommend you check the URL Manager Pro Web site regularly for new versions and additional useful information about URL Manager Pro and our related products Opening Web pages from within URL Manager Pro is a good way to start surfing the Web However if you have already opened your Web browser and have been surfing for some time you may find it more convenient to open a Web page from within your browser provided you stored its bookmark in URL Manager Pro You will learn how to do that in the next section Opening a Web page from within your browser URL Manager Pro can give you a
17. fic information is also available in the Shared Menus Help book Note We prefer you use the Bookmark Menu Extra or the Dock Menu Shared Menus are still fully supported however mainly to support URL Manager Pro users coming from Mac OS 9 Note If you double click the Contact the Author bookmark your email program will launch This is because it is a different type of bookmark It is a bookmark with the mailto protocol This feature of URL Manager Pro is described in more detail later Open a Web page using Drag amp Drop Drag amp Drop is a powerful feature of the Mac operating system It allows you to drag icons and other objects from one program to another This is very useful for opening Web pages for which you ve stored bookmarks in URL Manager Pro To open a Web page using Drag amp Drop you will need to make both your browser and the URL Manager Pro windows visible On a large monitor this shouldn t be difficult on a PowerBook one window may have to slightly overlap the other Activate the URL Manager Pro bookmark window by clicking on its window title bar Open a folder by double clicking on it or clicking the disclosure triangle For example open the Magazines folder Select for example the MacWorld bookmark icon Now press and hold the mouse button While you are doing this move the cursor over to the exposed part of your browser window you will see an outline of the icon as you drag it This is to let you kno
18. he Bookmark menu Select the command New Bookmark This will create a blank bookmark icon in the Sample document called Untitled Note that the new bookmark appears after the selection H Name URL T Tutorial v al URL Manager Pro s Home Page il http w v al Purchase Online http for Contact the author FI mailto su mea Creating a new untitled bookmark You ll see that the label field next to the icon is highlighted this is URL Manager Pro s way of prompting you to give it a name right away Type in The Wall Street Journal Press Tab Now the URL field is highlighted For the time being ignore the string of letters http in this field This is part of the Internet s URL addressing scheme It indicates that the address is a Web page This is the URL Manager Pro default Click the mouse cursor to the right of http and type www ws j com Press Enter when you are done The new icon is now called The Wall Street Journal Make sure that you typed the URL correctly and that there are no spaces If there are any spaces URL Manager Pro will not be able to open the page Now double click on the new The Wall Street Journal icon Your Web browser will open The Wall Street Journal Web page provided you have an active Internet connection You will find this technique for entering a bookmark directly in URL Manager Pro useful for adding a bookmark you find listed in a magazine or newspaper or another source other tha
19. lder Press the Cancel button to close the Find dialog box You ll see that this bookmark is highlighted If you would like to continue the search select the Find Again command Command G from the Edit menu The Find function will search for another bookmark with the same text In this case URL Manager Pro will beep because this is the only bookmark containing the text Dilbert Close the More Magazines folder The URL Manager Pro Find function also searches the notes attached to bookmarks For example select Find and enter daily URL Manager Pro will find this text in the Washington Post bookmark you entered earlier It will display the Get Info dialog box so that you can view the Note field containing this text Press Enter to close the Get Info Window Tip As you can see by adding meaningful information to a bookmark s Note field you make it easier to find bookmarks again This becomes useful when you have a large collection of bookmarks While the majority of bookmarks you collect in URL Manager Pro will be bookmarks of Web pages URL Manager Pro also allows you to store bookmarks for other kinds of Internet addresses In the next and final part of this tutorial you will learn how URL Manager Pro handles email addresses Using URL Manager Pro with your email program URL Manager Pro interacts with your email program similarly to the way it interacts with your Web browser For URL Manager Pro an email address is in fact jus
20. low you to control URL Manager Pro and the bookmarks you have saved in it from within your browser Below you see Safari s menu bar with URL Manager Pro s Shared Icon Menu and Sample Shared Bookmark Menu installed The menu Sample right next to URL Manager Pro s Shared Icon Menu displays all bookmarks in your current open URL Manager Pro bookmark document The name of the menu is the name of the document in this case Sample It is also possible to have a document icon displayed instead of the document name Choose Preferences from the URL Manager Pro Shared Icon Menu and select the Appearance tab f Safari File Edit View History Bookmarks Window Help EEDD ane Apple Le Add Bookmark B iid A A ru http www apple com Tutorial Cf MacDevCenter Apple URL Manager Pro Web Confidential Macintouch MRP Ma fa By the same author gt MC The Shared Menus shown at work in Safari If you go to the Sample menu you will see that it shows all the folders and subfolders in the Sample file If for example you select URL Manager Pro s Home Page from the Tutorial submenu your Web browser will open this page provided you are connected to the Internet Once you get used to using the Shared Menus you will find that it is a powerful feature of URL Manager Pro The URL Manager Pro 8 Tutorial Shared Icon Menu and the Shared Bookmark Menu are explained in this user manual but more speci
21. ments Bookmarks folder In addition you may want to drag the Sample document out of Startup Items so that it will not be loaded at startup Put it in the Cabinet folder instead You can easily open documents in the Cabinet folder from within URL Manager Pro via the Quick Open menu command under the File menu You can also use the Cabinet toolbar item for quick access to your bookmark files see below 11 Tutorial 600 A Tutorial Q A Ov bs mM NA eBay items WWW Email Cabit fch Fonts Family Bookmarks My Bookmarks My Thesis Tutorial Name Unregistel ly T Tutorial i e URL Manager P e Use PayPal to r S Use Kagi to reg Show In Finder I Contact the aut S URL Manager PI Help The Cabinet toolbar item shows the bookmark files in the Cabinet Furthermore documents in the Cabinet folder are listed in the Cabinet submenu of the Bookmark Menu Extra URL Manager Pro Shared Icon Menu and the Dock Menu This means you can open your bookmark files right from within your browser Below you can see the preferred hierarchy of storing your bookmark documents Y alco FY Documents Y Bookmarks gt T Cabinet p T Startup Items The file paths of the Cabinet and Startup Items folders visually shown Note You may use aliases for the Startup Items and Cabinet folders and the bookmarks files may also be aliases The Cabinet and Startup Items folders are more fully explained in
22. n your computer For a bookmark you discover when surfing the Internet there is a better way of adding it to URL Manager Pro At this point now that you have started customizing your collection of bookmarks you may want to give it a more meaningful name Let s rename the Sample document Go to the File menu Select Save As You will be prompted to give it another name the name of the current document Sample is listed as default 10 Tutorial Type in a suitable name such as My Bookmarks The Save As window will look something like this Save As My Bookmarks 1 m arae mororororareeamnr oraren ose mere srl Fr FR ere Se eee semences eee Where Bookmarks The Save As Window Use the popup menu next to the Where label Select Documents from that popup menu to make the Documents directory the current directory Use the downward pointing triangle button to expand the window Click the New Folder button Enter the folder name Bookmarks Now save your new file in this new folder Sample has now been renamed My Bookmarks and is saved in the folder Documents Bookmarks on your hard disk Tip To have a bookmark file open automatically each time you launch URL Manager Pro open Preferences and use the button Select Startup Bookmark File Note To have multiple bookmark files open automatically each time you launch URL Manager Pro put these files into a folder named Startup Items in the Docu
23. ng bookmarks to URL Manager Pro URL Manager Pro allows you to import bookmarks created in Safari Internet Explorer Netscape Firefox Mozilla OmniWeb Camino and iCab Select your browser from the Get from Browser submenu under the File menu URL Manager Pro will import your browser s bookmark file and open it as a separate URL Manager Pro document It will have the same title as the browser bookmark file You now have two URL Manager Pro document windows open At this point you may want to move the imported bookmarks into your main document Sample or whatever you may have renamed it You can copy bookmarks one by one move a few at a time or move them all at once To copy one bookmark from the import file select its icon with the mouse cursor and drag it to the target document i e Sample AS Tutorial The icon of this bookmark will be added to the existing collection To copy a selection of bookmarks from the import file proceed as follows Select an icon with the mouse cursor Press the Command key 38 and hold it down Select as many other icons as you wish The icons you select will be highlighted Now drag the selection to the target document i e Sample The icons of these bookmarks will be added to the existing collection Note To select multiple bookmarks that are in a row you can also use the Shift key or use Drag select to make your selections To copy all the bookmarks from the import file Go to the E
24. om within your web browser The third way is through the popup menu of URL Manager Pro s icon in the Dock A fourth way is by using Drag amp Drop Each of these four approaches has advantages which we describe below Opening a bookmark from URL Manager Pro A good place to start learning how to use URL Manager Pro is by going to the URL Manager Pro Home Page URL Manager Pro is updated on a regular basis and it is possible that there is a newer version available than the one you have particularly if you obtained your copy on CD ROM It is always a good idea to use the latest version of URL Manager Pro Open the Sample file and look at the Tutorial folder the top folder in the Sample document window You will find four bookmarks Double click the first bookmark called URL Manager Pro s Home Page H Name 7 T Tutorial E URL Manager Pro s Home Page d Purchase Online Contact the author 6 Tutorial If your Web browser isn t running URL Manager Pro will launch it If your browser is running URL Manager Pro will try to open this Web page in it If you are not connected to the Internet your Web browser will alert you that it cannot make a network connection In this case you should start your PPP dialer or whatever other programs you use to connect to the Internet If you are connected to the Internet your Web browser should load the URL Manager Pro Home Page It may take several seconds to load completely Once the URL Manag
25. rd Shortcuts The table below is an overview of shortcuts that do not appear in URL Manager Pro s menus Shared Bookmark Menu Global Menu Cmd menu item Open bookmark in a new tab Cmd menu item Invert the Open in new window preference Ctrl menu item Copy URL of bookmark to clipboard Safari Enable the preferences in General Open links from applications in the current window and in Tabs Tabbed Browsing and Select new tabs as they are created iCab No need to enable any preferences Bookmark Window Cmd lt or delete Delete the selected bookmark Ctrl click Show the Contextual Menu tt Select previous next bookmark escape Cancel the current selection enter return tab Edit the selected bookmark tab While in edit mode switch between name and URL for editing Option return Create a new bookmark Cmd Open selected bookmark in browser Cmd gt Expand the selected folder Cmd Collapse the selected folder Cmd Option Expand the selected folder and its subfolders Cmd Option Collapse the selected folder and its subfolders dragging Dragging bookmarks within a bookmark window moves them Option dragging Option dragging bookmarks within a bookmark window copies them drag 1 Drag and drop a bookmark to a text editor to insert the URL of the bookmark in the text drag 2 Drag and drop a bookmark to a Finder window to create an Internet Location File drag 3 Drag and drop a bookmark to a
26. t one of several types of bookmarks that it recognizes The chief difference between an email address bookmark and a Web page bookmark is that when you give URL Manager Pro the command to open an email address it passes this command to your email program not to your Web browser For example open the Tutorial folder Inside you will see an icon called Contact the Author It has a different icon than the URL Manager Pro Home Page icon This is because it is an email address bookmark Double click on this icon It will launch your email program if it is not running If it is running it will open a new message window with this address in the To field Note By default URL Manager Pro is configured to recognize Eudora as your email program If you want to change that configuration open Preferences and click the Internet tab As in the case of your Web browser URL Manager Pro also adds Shared Menus to your email program This means you can save email address bookmarks to URL Manager Pro from within your email program 19 Tutorial Note If you want to access Shared Menus in applications other than Web browsers you must turn off the preference Show Shared Menus only in Web Browsers which is located under the URL Manager Pro Icon menu s preferences Open a message window in your email program Select the text containing the email address see below for an example ff BEAN pair Networks Insider September 2003 bs Deliver
27. ttp www apple com Shared Menus in Safari You can install Shared Menus using the Menu Extra tab of the Preferences Window URL Manager Pro will then install the Shared Menus Component in Library Components Where is the customary Unix shorthand to indicate the user s home directory If the folder Components does not yet exist it will be created The picture below shows the file path of the Shared Menus Component for a user with user name alco Y ff alco T LE Library 7 C3 Components a SharedMenus component The file path of the Shared Menus Component Many applications like Eudora and Microsoft Internet Explorer support the Shared Menus Protocol but some do not like Safari You can make all applications Shared Menus aware by installing my Shared Menus Enhancer The Shared Menus Enhancer SME is an APE module and can be downloaded from Shared Menus Enhancer web page lt http www url manager com sme html gt To remove the Shared Menus Component you can again use the Menu Extra tab of the Preferences Window or you can remove it manually To take effect you need to quit and launch your web browser Tutorial Where to store your bookmark files We strongly advise you to store your bookmark files in a folder named Bookmarks in your Documents folder The Documents folder already exists and was created by the Mac OS Please create a Bookmarks folder in your Documents folder Furthermore w
28. w that Drag amp Drop is functioning When your mouse cursor is over the browser window release the mouse button You have now dropped this icon in your browser Your browser will open the MacWorld home page provided you have an active Internet connection You can explore the other bookmarks in the Sample document at your leisure either by opening them from within URL Manager Pro or by means of Drag amp Drop We have supplied a collection that we think may be of interest to Mac users However you will probably want to start developing a collection of your own URLs right away You will learn how to add URLs to URL Manager Pro in the next section Adding bookmarks to URL Manager Pro You can add bookmarks to URL Manager Pro in four different ways 1 Add bookmarks directly within the URL Manager Pro program 2 Use the Bookmark Menu Extra the URL Manager Pro Shared Icon Menu or Dock Menu 3 Use Drag amp Drop 4 Import the bookmarks file from your Web browser Each of these four approaches has advantages and is described below Adding bookmarks directly in URL Manager Pro If URL Manager Pro isn t already running open the URL Manager Pro folder and click on the URL Manager Pro icon to start the program As before you will be presented with the default URL Manager Pro document called Sample Let s say you would like to create a bookmark for The Wall Street Journal Select the bookmark Contact the author Tutorial Go to t
29. your web browser The Bookmark Menu Extra is located in the right part of your menu bar see below l M amp e1 95 Sun 22 21 URL Manager Pro Tutorial Ca Add Bookmark EN Tutorial The Bookmark Menu Extra Using the Bookmark Menu Extra you can add bookmarks launch bookmarks and easily open bookmark files and switch between your bookmark files With URL Manager Pro you store your bookmarks in bookmark files that you can create and manage and have control over You can organize and create several bookmark files and have easy access to them via the Cabinet feature of URL Manager Pro Tutorial Installing Shared Menus optional We prefer you use the Bookmark Menu Extra but you may want to use the Shared Menus feature instead We prefer the Bookmark Menu Extra because it is not likely to interfere with other programs and does not involve installation of a separate component of software The Shared Bookmark Menu is appended to right of the Help menu of your web browser As such the Shared Bookmark Menu appears more in the middle of your menu bar than the Bookmark Menu Extra The chapter Bookmark Menu of this manual explains the difference between the Shared Menus and the Bookmark Menu Extra In the screen shot below you can see the URL Manager Pro Shared Icon Menu and the Shared Bookmark Menu also an icon menu Safari File Edit View History Bookmarks Window Help P L 009 _ Apple A A CN 4 h
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