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- URL Organizer 2 for Windows 95/98/NT4
- by Edward Leigh
- Version 2.3 1 September 1999
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- N.B. All 2.x versions of URL Organizer will function fully-enabled with a
- license for URL Organizer 2 (see below).
-
-
- CONTENTS OF ZIP ARCHIVE
- -----------------------
- setup.exe Main program with built-in installer & uninstaller
- urlOrg.hlp Help file
- urlOrg.cnt Help contents
- ReadMe.txt This document
- FILE_ID.DIZ Program description for file librarians
- Sample URL List.txt Sample URL list
- URL Organizer Home Page.url Internet shortcut to URL Organizer home page
-
-
- WHAT IS URL ORGANIZER?
- ----------------------
- URL Organizer 2 is a small, fast, simple utility for storing and organizing
- large collections of URLs (bookmarks/favorites). It offers an innovative,
- intuitive and highly-customizable interface.
-
-
- KEY FEATURES
- ------------
- URL Organizer 2 is a highly sophisticated tool for storing and organizing your
- URLs. These are just some of its key features:
-
- General features:
- * URLs stored in a 3-level hierarchy so no URL is more than 3 mouse clicks away
- * fast full text search facility
- * instantly switch between up to 10 URL collections of up to 10,000 URLs each
- * instantly switch between up to 10 web browsers
- * loads in a snap and uses minimal disk space, memory and resources
- * includes comprehensive integrated help notes
-
- Information stored:
- * web, e-mail and news addresses
- * application, folder and document shortcuts
- * unlimited space for notes on each URL
- * site log-in names
- * time of last opening each URL
-
- Sophisticated organizing tools:
- * import/export URLs to/from Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Opera
- * import Start Menu shortcuts
- * quick and easy to edit, re-order and re-group titles and URLs
- * support for aliases (multiple instances) of URLs
- * support for separators/dividers
- * drag and drop support
- * automatic and manual backup of URL collections
- * copy URLs as text or HTML
-
- Highly-configurable interface:
- * alternative interfaces: 'Regular', 'Organize' and 'Compact'
- * fully-resizable windows
- * user-definable color scheme
-
-
- COMPATIBILITY
- -------------
- URL Organizer should work under all updates of Windows 95, 98 and NT4 with any
- version of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Opera and other
- Spyglass-compatible web browsers. URL Organizer is Y2K compliant.
-
-
- DISTRIBUTION
- ------------
- You may freely distribute release, but NOT PRE-RELEASE, versions of URL
- Organizer 2, PROVIDED THAT you distribute only the most recent COMPLETE,
- ORIGINAL zip archive available from my web site. Please check
- http://www.osolis.com/cgi-bin/program.cgi?2 for the latest release.
-
-
- LICENSE
- -------
- URL Organizer 2 is copyright (1998-1999) of Edward Leigh. It is distributed and
- sold as 'shareware'. It is NOT public domain or freeware.
-
- In the license conditions that follow, three terms have special meaning:
- * 'the Author' shall refer to Edward Leigh, the author of URL Organizer 2
- * 'the Program' shall refer to URL Organizer 2
- * 'the Licensee' shall refer either to you as an individual plus any family
- with whom you share a computer or, if you will be using the Program in the
- capacity of an employee, to the company which employs you.
-
- The Author grants the Licensee:
- * the right to install and use the Program on any computer;
- * the right to use the Program for thirty (30) consecutive days before the
- Licensee must either purchase a license or uninstall the Program
-
- providing that the Licensee agrees to be bound by the following conditions:
- * If the Licensee is a company, the number of licenses required at any one time
- equals the number of employees who use the Program. The number of licenses
- required specifically does not equal the maximum number of concurrent users of
- the Program, nor does it equal the number of computers on which the program is
- installed.
- * The Program is licensed, not sold, to the Licensee.
- * The Program is provided 'as is'. The Licensee uses the Program entirely at
- its own risk. No warranties nor guarantees are included with the license. In no
- event shall the Author be liable for any consequential damages whatsoever
- (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of business profits or loss of
- business information) arising out of the use of, or the inability to use, the
- Program. In any case, the Author's liability shall be limited to the price paid
- for this license, or ten UK pounds sterling, whichever is the greater.
- * The Licensee agrees to respect the copyright laws and international copyright
- treaties, as well as any other intellectual property laws and treaties that
- apply to the Program.
- * The Licensee may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or modify in
- any way whatsoever the Program.
- * The Licensee may not sell, rent or lease the Program to anyone else. The
- Licensee may distribute only the most recent installation package as available
- from the Author's Web site.
- * This licence agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales.
-
- If The Licensee does not agree with the stated license conditions, please do
- not install URL Organizer; or if installed already, please uninstall URL
- Organizer 2 immediately.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- ------------
- Simply unzip the urlorg2x.zip or urlorg2x.exe archive into a single directory.
- Then run 'setup.exe' and follow instructions for installing URL Organizer. (You
- will find a 'Help' button that will bring up more detailed information.)
-
- To uninstall, simply select 'Uninstall' from the program's Application menu.
-
-
- REGISTRATION
- ------------
- URL Organizer is shareware, so you may install it and try it out with all
- features enabled for up to 30 days before you must either register and pay for
- a license or uninstall the program. Functionality is limited after the 30 day
- evaluation period is over, but you will always have access to your URLs and,
- should you decide that URL Organizer is not for you, you can export your URLs
- back to Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator or Opera.
-
- To fully-enable the program's functionality, you must register on-line with
- OSoLiS (http://www.osolis.com/en/registration/). You will find instructions for
- how to register in the help notes (see 'Help' under the program's 'Application'
- menu) as well as on OSoLiS's Web site.
-
-
- SUPPORT & FEEDBACK
- ------------------
- Comprehensive integrated help notes are included with URL Organizer. For
- anything not covered there, please contact the author, Edward Leigh, at
- urlorg@osolis.com
-
-
- VERSION HISTORY
- ---------------
- 1.x Freeware version now distributed separately*
- 2.0 Released 22 December 1998
- 2.0.1 Released 02 January 1999
- Minor bug fix
- 2.1 Released 30 January 1999
- Enhanced 'Mark and Move' to support multiple selections
- Added facility to alphabetically sort headings and titles
- Added option to highlight recently-visited URLs
- Added facility to copy URLs as text or html
- Added option to use System Tool Tray
- Improved support for application and document shortcuts
- Rearranged 'Organize' mode screen to include search facility
- Many functional and graphical enhancements to interface
- Various bug fixes
- 2.1.1 Released 5 February 1999
- Added extra keyboard shortcuts
- A few bug fixes
- 2.2 Released 26 March 1999
- Added URL note & site log-in name fields
- Added facility to import Opera Hotlists (including URL notes)
- Added facility to import Start Menu shortcuts
- Improved pre-formatting of imported URL collections
- Importing & exporting Netscape bookmarks retains URL notes
- Removed limitation on number of items at each level
- Increased URL list limit to 10,000 URLs
- Items selected in a list now remembered between sessions
- Added 'Mark All' and 'Unmark All' items in a list box
- Added keyboard shortcut to minimize URL Organizer after opening a URL
- Added hot key facility to bring URL Organizer to the front
- Added tool tip showing the exact date and time URL was last visited
- Added color preference for marked items
- Permit user to set 'recent' period for highlighting URLs
- Automatically creates backup copies of URL lists
- Altered 'Organize' mode functionality
- Altered keyboard shortcuts: F5 -> F8; Ctrl+Shift+O behaves differently
- Fixed problems with importing Internet Explorer favorites
- Minor bug fixes and tweaks to interface
- 2.2.1 Released 9 April 1999
- Added 'Save Copy' function
- Enhanced drag and drop support
- Improved list file handling, particularly for networked list files
- Minor tweaks to interface
- 2.2.2 Released 4 May 1999
- Added asterisk indicator for annotated URLs
- Location of last-imported Netscape bookmark file now remembered
- Minor tweaks to interface
- Fixed various bugs, including disappearing notes
- 2.2.3 Released 17 June 1999
- Tweak to 'Compact' mode behaviour
- Various minor bug fixes
- 2.2.4 Released 13 July 1999
- Updated import tools to read Opera v3.6 Hotlists
- 2.3 Released 1 September
- Main windows, list boxes and note box are now all fully-resizable
- Added facility to move or copy URLs between lists
- Added support for aliases (multiple instances) of URLs within a list
- Added support for section separators
- Added facility to export as an Opera Hotlist format
- Items are inserted into a sorted list box correctly-ordered
- Permits deletion of non-empty categories and subcategories
- Added pop-up options to set Last Visited time to now or 'never'
- Added message-line help prompts for menu items
- Added option to turn off message-line help prompts
- Enhanced copy-to-clipboard options, including copying multiple URLs
- Drag and drop now drops html links onto html documents
- 'Edit' menu included in 'Regular' and 'Organize' modes
- 'Display' preferences split into 'Behavior' and 'Presentation'
- Note window auto-docks below main window if no room to right or left
- List boxes now permit dragging of item to bottom line
- Added option to start minimized
- Added option to auto-minimize after opening a URL
- Added popup context menu to application and note windows
- All functionality now available during 30-day evaluation period
- Added index to Help notes
- Program registers with 'Add/Remove Programs' Windows Control Panel
- Esc is no longer a shortcut for Exit
- Alt+F5 activates/deactivates the Note window
- Ctrl+Tab re-opens list containing marked items or list last open
- Various modifications to interface
-
-
- *For details about the freeware version of URL Organizer (which lacks the
- enhancements detailed above), see http://www.osolis.com/cgi-bin/program.cgi?1
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