Spurl steps aside…
I just completed wrapping the core functionality of Spurl.net into a neat toolbar that sits on the side of your browser.
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At the top of the bar is a search field, for searching your spurls (spurls are essentially “Bookmarks on steroids” for those of you that need a tagline).
Below the search field there are 4 tabs:
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My most used: A list of the pages you have most frequently visited through Spurl. After using Spurl for a couple of days, this tab will hold more or less all the pages you visit on a regular basis. I have found this to be a personal favorite.
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My spurls: A treeview holding all your spurls in categories.
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Hot now: The pages that Spurl users have spurled the most in the last few days.
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Just in:The freshest spurls from all users.
Note: The icon in front of a spurl (
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) is a link to your details on the spurl, and allows you to change them.
This new bar gives an extremely easy access to the spurl functionality with minimal interruption to your normal browsing behavior. I don’t know why I didn’t implement it like this from the beginning, but here it is.
Enjoy!
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The installation is as simple as it gets.
For Opera and Mozilla (etc.) users it is a single click of a link.
Explorer users must restart their systems for the full installation (why is Bill so difficult?), but they are in for an extra treat. The installation will also create two new buttons in the Navigation bar (next to the Back and Home links, etc.). One for toggling the Spurl bar on and off, the other one for spurling pages. So in that case you don’t even need the good old Spurl! link in the Links bar any more – the new button has all it’s functionality.
And don’t worry, no software is in fact installed on the computer, just a few registry changes and the install page holds a link to uninstall it as easily as it was installed.
To install the Spurl bar, go here. If you are a new user – go to the front page of Spurl.net and register. The last step of the registration shows you how to install the Spurl bar.
Note: If the buttons in the Navigation bar (Explorer only) don’t appear after you have restarted the computer, you have to go to View / Toolbars / Customize… and locate them there. This only happens for those that have previously customized their Toolbar somehow.
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Update Apr 14, 2004: Mozilla / Firefox / Firebird / Netscape support now completed as well – unfortunately Safari does not support sidebars, but a workaround is in the making.