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Quick Start Guide Now that you have found out WHY Powermarks is right for you, let us help you get started with this quick start guide. The Basics: |
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The Import Wizard will automatically run the first time you start Powermarks. It will prompt you to add your bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Netscape, and Opera. Refer to Importing in the help files for a more comprehensive overview of this feature. Your first impression after your bookmarks are installed might be: Help, where are my folders??? Not to worry, Powermarks has preserved your folders and management structure during the import. Powermarks automatically adds the folder name to the keyword set for that bookmark. Try it, type in one of your old folder names and you will see the list of bookmarks narrowed to contain the links that were in that folder. Find out WHY we intentionally left out folders.
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A network proxy is an intermediate computer that sits between your browser and the Internet. It may be in the form of a firewall that exists for security purposes or a system that caches browser requests with the intention of speeding up access to frequently retrieved pages. In either case, Powermarks must be configured to use the Proxy server so that it can properly check the status of bookmarked pages. See Section 5.4 for details regarding Status Checking. Select Options from the View menu and click on the Proxies tab to display Proxy and Firewall options. To enable the use of a Proxy or Firewall, select the Use Proxy option and set the Server and Port fields. See Section 8.1.10 for details.
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Powermarks recognizes which browsers are installed on a computer, but can be confused by a nonstandard configuration. A possible cause for this is if remnants of previous browser versions are still on your hard disk. If double-clicking on a bookmark does not open the page in your browser and instead displays a message "Unable to communicate with browser," you will have to manually update the browser configuration, otherwise, you may skip to the next section. Select Options from the View menu and click on the Browser tab. Three tabs will be displayed, one each for Netscape, Internet Explorer and Opera. Click on the tab of the browser that you wish to use with Powermarks and make sure the Program Location field is correct and the Preferred Browser item is checked. See Section 8.1.12 for detailed instructions regarding browser configuration.
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If you have Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher installed on your computer, the Powermarks toolbar should automatically be displayed when Powermarks is installed. The PM icon will start Powermarks; the other two icons allow you to quickly add bookmarks from within IE and are explained in detail below.
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There are two easy methods for adding the current browser page to the Powermarks bookmark list: Click the
Click the
If a site has already been bookmarked, the Add command will display the bookmark that already exists and will not add a duplicate. The Fast Add command will do nothing. To display a blank Properties dialog so that you can manually add a bookmark, hold down the Shift key when clicking on the Add bookmark toolbar .
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Powermarks has two types of searches, Keyword and Exact String. The search type is specified by pressing one of the following toolbar buttons: Press
Press
Press the
More information regarding searching can be found in Section 5.1, Searching, and Section 10.5, Advanced Searching.
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Just double-click on a bookmark to display the page in the browser. If the web browser is not running, Powermarks will start it automatically. If the browser does not load the bookmark, see Section 4.3.1 and Section 8.1.12 for information on configuring Powermarks to work with your browser.
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Powermarks (tm) Copyright © 1997-2003 Kaylon Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. |
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button or select Add from the Powermarks menu when your browser is at a
site you want to bookmark. This displays the Powermarks Properties dialog with
the current browser site filled in.
toolbar button or select Fast Add from the Powermarks menu when your
browser is at a site you want to bookmark. This is the same as the Add command
described above, but bypasses the Powermarks Properties menu and adds the
bookmark immediately to the bookmark file. This is useful when you want to add
a bookmark quickly so that it does not interrupt your browsing.
for powerful and fast
keyword searching. You may type in multiple words such as "cool
sites."
to search for an exact
string. This search has no concept of words, it just searches for
exactly what is typed, character by character. 
toolbar button to specify which bookmark fields should be searched.