Terry O'Brien TDO <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Let me increase your productivity once again by pointing out that
>Netscape 4.x products appear to automatically append '.com' to a URL
>along with prefixing the 'www.' to the front end.  I only tried this on
>the Windows 95 version.
...
>As such, I simply type 'Adager' into my browser and presto, the Adager
>home page appears.

Alfredo replies:

> I just tried your suggestion under Netscape Communicator 4.0.3 under
> Mac OS 8 and...  I'll be...  It worked like a charm.

I believe this works with Netscape Navigator 3.x as well.
But it gets better...

Eudora Lite lets you access a web link without having to copy-and-paste
from your email reader to your browser. It's available from

        <http://www.eudora.com/>

Mac users have a few more options:

An extension called ICeTEe allows a URL to be opened when clicked on
from within ANY application. It's bundled with (and requires)
Internet Config, freeware that lets you set up all your Internet
configuration info in a single place. You can get this from shareware.com,
or from the Internet Config home page:

        <http://www.share.com/peterlewis/ic/internetconfig.html>

Further, Apple has released a set of free Internet Address Detectors
(as part of its more general Apple Data Detectors) to take a desired
action on selected datafrom within any application. For more info,
start at

        <http://applescript.apple.com/data_detectors/>

then click on "Free Detectors" for info about the Internet detectors
(as well as those for phone numbers and city/state addresses).

> Every keystroke counts.

That's the focus.

--Glenn Cole
  Software al dente, Inc.
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