Is your Bookmarks menu overflowing with web page address? Having trouble remembering what half of them are for? By allowing you to store text and images with a web page address, iData 2 can help you keep a useful collection of thousands of web page address. You can later use iData's search and select funtions to find the pages you want.
With the click of a button or pressing of a keystroke, iData 2 can get the title and URL (web address) of a web page, create a new record in the current datafile, and paste the title, URL, and contents of the clipboard into the new record. This is useful because you can later launch the web page by clicking the blue underlined link in an iData 2 record. The keystroke for Grab Web Address is: command-option-G
Launch Web Address
If you click a link in iData 2 such as http://www.robincasady.com iData 2 will open the web page in a new window of the default web browser. If the browser is not running, it will launch the browser and open the page.
Setting the Default Browser
The default web browser is set in the Safari General Preferences. Even if you are using a different browser, the default must be set in Safari.
Setting up iData 2 for Grabbing
See Chapter 2-8 for instructions on specifying the Web Address settings.
Toggling the Paste Option
if you have enabled the paste clipboard option in the settings and want to grab a URL without pasting, there are two ways to do it.
When clicking the Grab URL button, hold down the option key. This will do the opposite of what is selected in the Datafile Settings...
Or, add the Shift key to the key combination to toggle the paste option. The toggle key command is: command-shift-option-G
Memory Errors
With OS X 10.1 through 10.3.9 there seemed to be a bug in some of the Apple routines for handling the conversion of html to Rich Text. So, some clipboard content would cause an error to occur. This seems to be fixed in OS 10.4.1. However, if you are using an earlier OS and see the following message, the best thing to do is to save the datafile (if changes are important), quit iData 2, and then relaunch iData 2. That will get rid of any potential instability caused by the error.
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