This Story Posted:
June 18th, 1999

 
 

[2:40 PM]
New Application Acts As Universal Browser History
Serac Software has announced a new product called iRemember that acts as a universal browser history to help you find where you have been. iRemember also works with Netscape's browser products that do not have a built-in history. The product has other features as well. According to Serac Software:

Forget to bookmark that great web page and now you can't find it? Do you use Netscape Navigator and wish it kept your browsing history? Do you use more than one browser and wish there was one place you could go to find any page you visited? Serac Software is proud to announce iRemember, a revolutionary new application for keeping track of your web browsing history that solves all of these problems!

How often have you had to bookmark a page just because you aren't sure if you might want to revisit it later? iRemember lets you return to any page you ever visited just by typing a couple of words that describe the page! Instead of cluttering up your bookmarks with pages you might never visit again, you can use them for your favorite pages and use iRemember to revisit all the rest. iRemember works by indexing all of the words in every web page you visit using the Apple Information Access Toolkit (the same engine used by Sherlock). Later, when you want to revisit any page that you've ever seen in the past, you only need to type in a couple of words that describe that page to quickly return to it.

iRemember also keeps an easy to use history by date and time for all of the pages that you visited, regardless of which browser you used to visit them. Now, even if you use a browser like Netscape Communicator that doesn't keep track of your browsing history, or you switch between multiple browsers, you have one place to go to easily look for a web page you visited on a particular day.

To make it easy to search your browsing history, the Internet or your local hard disk, iRemember will also install an optional system-wide menu that lets you quickly switch to iRemember or Sherlock from any application.

iRemember is compatible with all MacOS versions from 7.1 to 8.6 and both MacTCP and OpenTransport. It works with any browser, including all versions of Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer, AOL's browser, iCab, etc. It's also fully compatible with older 68K Macs and is native on all Power Macintoshes including iMacs and the new blue G3's.

You can find more information about iRemember at the company's web site. You can also download a 30 day demo of the product. iRemember is priced at US$25.

The Mac Observer Spin: We certainly have not tested iRemember yet, but the product sounds very handy, especially for those who do a lot of surfing.

Serac Software