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What Happened To URLwell?

Posted on May 30th, 2006 by Brian


A while back, I posted about URLwell on FMW. I love this app and always suggest it to others. URLwell allows you to quickly drag and drop URL’s to your menu bar to be looked at later.

Well, recently I purchased a MacBook Pro so I have been looking thru my apps to see which ones have been updated to Universal Binary. When I got to URLwell, I was quite bummed to see not only had it not been updated but it was completely gone. It used to be hosted at http://www.enigmarelle.com/ but there is nothing there anymore.

Does anyone know what happened to URLwell? And for those of you who know programming, is it possible to take my current copy of URLwell and make it a Univeral Binary? I’d certainly be grateful if anyone can shed some light on this.

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11 Responses to “What Happened To URLwell?”

  1. Mike Says:
    June 20th, 2006 at 5:06 am

    I did a google search for it and finally came across this website “temporarily” hosting it for download:

    http://menu.jeweledplatypus.org/urlwell.html

  2. RickP in AZ Says:
    June 30th, 2006 at 8:00 am

    thank you *so* much for point me to this link. I had recently upgraded to “Tiger” on my Powerbook and being a “smart” guy did a clean install. I thought that I had the installs for all of my favorite applications but much to my dismay… URLwell was not on my external backup HD. :-( You have done the Mac world a huge service.

    (Yes, I have already saved it to 3 different places as insurance.)

  3. urlwell - kobak pont org Says:
    July 26th, 2006 at 10:57 am

    [...] Mint sokan mások, én is rákattantam az i use this oldalra. A listámat is összeállítottam, egy program azonban hiányzik róla. Ez az urlwell. A freemacware favorit listáján akadtam rá, s kipróbáltam. [...]

  4. tcm Says:
    September 23rd, 2006 at 10:53 am

    THIS IS AWESOME! I hate clutter on my desktop, and this was the perfect solution for getting rid it. A great program!

  5. mwl Says:
    October 17th, 2006 at 9:28 am

    is this safe to use on mac 10.4.8 (intel)??

  6. Brian Says:
    October 17th, 2006 at 9:32 am

    mwl, it runs in Rosetta, but it runs. That is what I am using.

  7. Delirious Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 1:38 pm

    I like the idea, but this doesn’t do the trick. (Or maybe I’m missing something)

    You can’t drag and drop URLs, you have to cut and paste the URL into a dialogue’s field. C’mon…

  8. Brian Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 1:48 pm

    Delirious, once the app is running in your menu bar you can drag the favicon from a url right onto the @ sign and it will go in there.

  9. Jeff Says:
    June 12th, 2007 at 7:58 pm

    For what it’s worth, I have found that I have to click the icon in my Menubar before I can drag/drop any other URL. Having said that, I love this program and have been using it since I downloaded it from Enigmarelle back in the day.

  10. Apple Krazy » Blog Archive » Explore your Utilities Says:
    October 15th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

    [...] you’ll see any apps that are still running as a PowerPC app. The only one left on my list is that darn URLwell. What I wouldn’t do for an update of that [...]

  11. gordon Says:
    June 19th, 2009 at 7:00 am

    What’s going to replace URLwell in SL which will not run PowerPC apps? Anyone have any ideas?

    Thanks

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