NSMED

NSMED -- Like so many others, the lack of an efficient or even half-way decent bookmarking editor for Netscape has kept me from praising what would otherwise be a near-perfect product. Unfortunately, I've also always thought that I'd have to wait until Netscape Communications Corporation became gracious enough to bestow upon us a much improved editor with their next upgrade to Netscape. Thanks to Scott Chapman of Lightship Computing Services, there's no need to anxiously wait any longer for a new version of Netscape (I'm still taking bets, though, on whether the new version will be out before Windows 95). Chapman has designed NSMED, a very efficient improvement on Netscape's bookmarking editor. NSMED allows you to drag and drop, sort, categorize, delete, insert and organize the previously unorganizable bookmark.htm file associated with Netscape. The drag and drop capability is what really makes this product stand out, solely because Netscape has never decided to implement it. While Non-Netscape users will find very little need for this product, anyone who has ever attempted to manage more than twenty bookmarks in Netscape will quickly realize the value of this product. Be forewarned, though, the demo version is limited to the management of only thirty bookmarks. So be prepared to fork over the $15 registration fee very quickly. Positives: Succeeds in the one area that Netscape fails; inexpensive bookmarking editor Negatives: Only Netscape users will benefit from NSMED; can only be loaded external of Netscape Reviewer: Forrest Stroud apps conference Main Menu