Our legacy product for users of Mac OS 10.4, Bookdog allows users to sort (selectively alphabetize), import/export, migrate, verify, find redirects, search, and find duplicates among their bookmarks collections in Safari, Firefox 1.5-3.0, Camino, Google Bookmarks, Delicious, OmniWeb, Opera, Shiira 2.x and Netscape Navigator. Migrations can be scheduled using Apple's Automator, and bookmarks on other networked Macs or backup disks are easily accessible. If you're still using Mac OS 10.4, you can use Bookdog now and easily crossgrade to BookMacster for a small price whenever you upgrade to Mac OS version 10.5 or later.
Bookdog
Introduction
"My Mac is smart enough to organize lots of stuff. Why not my bookmarks?"
After you install Bookdog, you spend a few minutes adjusting how you want your bookmarks sorted, click Sort and within seconds your bookmarks are all in order! Click Analyze to find duplicates and then eliminate those you don't want. Open the Preferences, activate Bookwatchdog, and your bookmarks will be re-sorted after you make changes. Automatically. Do you seem to have alot of bookmarks that don't work anymore? Tell Bookdog to Verify. He'll make a quick visit to all the websites you have bookmarked, present a report of their responses, give you some options on how he can automatically fix bookmarks that have been "redirected", and finally present a handy tool which allows you to quickly review and fix the remainder. Using Camino, Firefox, Opera, del.icio.us, Shiira, Google™ Bookmarks and/or OmniWeb in addition to Safari? When you tell him to Migrate your bookmarks between browsers, he finds the right folder and avoids creating duplicates. You can migrate unilaterally (one-way) or bilaterally, "synchronizing" all missing bookmarks between browsers. And you can do so from an AppleScript or schedule Migrations using Apple's Automator. Download Bookdog's sample AppleScripts and Automator Workflow.
Atta boy! Finally, you see the intelligence you knew your Mac was capable of!
Bookdog or BookMacster?
Why BookMacster? Besides doing everything that Bookdog does (although some in different ways), BookMacster supports Google's Chrome web browser, and also new Delicious accounts linked to Yahoo! accounts. We intend to not add this support to Bookdog.
Why Bookdog? The only reason to use Bookdog instead of BookMacster at this time is if you really like the dob motif, or if your Mac runs Mac OS 10.4. BookMacster requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
Pricing for Bookdog and BookMacster is the same, and when the introductory pricing for BookMacster is increased, pricing for Bookdog will be increased to the same level.
News
2010 Apr 17. Bookdog 5.3.13 is released to Production. This update is only needed in the event that you are using Bookdog with Opera 10.5 Beta. Anyone else may skip this update. Complete details and download are in the Update News.
To update, if you already have Bookdog, launch it and in the menu click Bookdog ▸ Check For Update. New users may download either the zip archive or disk image, whichever is preferred. Both are about 4 megabytes. New users may download whichever package they prefer:
2010 Jun 08. We've examined the behavior of Safari 5.0, tested it with Bookdog, and not found any issues.
Trying and Buying
Free Demo (Trial)
Simply download Bookdog and start using it. When you attempt to save or export bookmarks, click the "Demo" button. In a few seconds, Bookdog will request, retrieve and install your Demo license which will be good for 3 days. You may do this 3 times, thus receiving 9 days of active demo time.
What is the Basic License?
The Basic License allows operation of Bookdog on your choice of either (a) one user on multiple Macs or (b) multiple users on one Mac. You'll also get free updates for at least one year. You can read all about it in our license.
Pricing
The price for a Basic License is $22.95 USD.
How to Buy?
To purchase a Basic license, launch BookMacster and click in the main menu:
Documentation
Bookdog comes with an Apple Help Book in its Help menu. The same Help Book is available online, here.
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