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URLwell - Temporary URL storage via the menubar Pick of the Week
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Yes, it's Thursday and we're just now getting to the Pick of the Week ... sorry about that; I basically forgot about it due to some other commitments! I also cheated a bit for this week's pick, as I spotted it just yesterday in Dan Frakes' Mac Gems Weblog. URLwell is an organization tool for all those "temporary" URLs you may have strewn across your desktop or in various folders on your drive. URLwell lives in the menubar, and you can add a URL to it by simply dragging and dropping. It is not a full-blown bookmarks manager; it exists mainly as a convenient way to save all those sites you'll be visiting "any day now" but don't necessarily want to go through the trouble of bookmarking.

Dan provides a more detailed writeup of its features and operation, so head over to his weblog for the full scoop. Suffice it to say that I found URLwell to be very easy and intuitive to use (I love the option-click to remove feature), and you can't beat the price! Thanks, Dan, for the pointer to a most handy little utility -- my desktop and "temporary things" folder are now much less crowded!
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URLwell - Temporary URL storage via the menubar
Authored by: coolsoldier on Apr 07, '05 07:12:40PM

Drag-and-drop URL storage? Isn't this feature already built into the dock?



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URLwell - Temporary URL storage via the menubar
Authored by: DanFrakes on Apr 07, '05 08:30:23PM

Yes, but compare a single, small icon in your menu bar to a larger icon in your Dock for every site ;-)

Glad you like it, Rob; I'm finding it quite useful for keeping my Desktop tidy.



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URLwell - Temporary URL storage via the menubar
Authored by: maxotron on Apr 08, '05 03:07:37AM

ugh, i hate those sounds. Why can't I turn them off. Other than that, it's OK



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URLwell - Temporary URL storage via the menubar
Authored by: robg on Apr 08, '05 11:06:08AM

Control-click on the application icon, select Show Package Contents, go to Contents -> Resources. Delete the add.aiff and reject.aiff sound files. Note: Make sure URLwell isn't running when you do this.

Re-launch URLwell. End of sounds :). I actually kept the Reject sound, in case I drag a bad URL there. But feel free to delete both.

-rob.



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Cool, but could improve
Authored by: melo on Apr 08, '05 06:46:27AM

I'm using it since yesterday. Very nice to cut down on the size of my Bookmarks bar.

The killer feature for me, though, would be automatic posting of those URLs at del.ici.us with a fixed set of tags (like 'later' and 'url_well').

That would be sweet :)



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Cool, but could improve
Authored by: timcrawf on Apr 08, '05 09:09:59AM
just a note to correct the URL mentioned above. it should be del.icio.us

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URLwell - Temporary URL storage via the menubar
Authored by: stonetownmike on Apr 08, '05 02:05:32PM
A handy alternative is iSnip. You can easily make a filter to save URLs to a separate folder. Easy storage for frequently used text snippets, email addresses, forms etc. And no annoying sounds.

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URLwell - Temporary URL storage via the menubar
Authored by: dave1212 on Jul 05, '05 02:04:09AM

URLwell rocks, my dock has over 60 so-called 'temporary' URLs in it, and I needed something like this app to allow quick drops for whatever reason. Excellent pick.

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