Gurl Friend 2.0

File	gurl-friend-20-ppc.hqx
Size	229.0 KB
Version	2.0
Category	Communication
Architecture	PowerPC

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What is gURLfriend? gURLfriend is a utility that will parse your Netscape or Internet Explorer bookmarks files into a format that is more convenient to post on to a web site. Your browser's bookmark file contains much more information than you would expect. Besides the bookmark's name and URL information such as the date the bookmark was last visited, the day it was added to your list and comments you may have added. This extra information almost doubles the size of the bookmarks file and is removed by gURLfriend. The gURLfriend application also searches through your bookmarks list and indexes all the bookmark folder names and creates a table of contents. This table of contents greatly speeds up access to your online bookmarks since you can quickly jump to the folder you are interested in without having to transfer the bookmark information for the URLs you are not interested in. Why would I want to use gURLfriend? If you are like me you put a copy of your bookmarks list on your home page. By using gURLfriend you will significantly decrease the total size of this information and also make it easier to use. My bookmarks file size went from 97K to 56K after running it through gURLfriend. It is also indexed which makes it easier to use. A parsed bookmarks file takes much less time to transfer when posted on your page. Most importantly, if you break the folders into separate files, the time the is required to access a particular bookmark is significantly reduced. The table of contents file is a fraction of the total size of your bookmark information. Mine for example is 3K. Also, gURLfriend strips all information except the URL, its name and the comments if you allow them to be kept. All other information is removed which not only reduces the file size, it also removes possibly sensitive information that you might not want posted to the net.