Getting Started
The main function of Hyperlinkomatic is grabbing links to those webpages you find useful and interesting. In order to achieve this you need to get a Grabber button into your browsers' toolbar.
Below are the instructions for this first important step.
You can add a Grabber to every browser on every machine that you use, giving you access to all of your links from anywhere, at anytime.
The Grabber doesn't contain any reference to your login details, so you can safely use it on a shared computer.
Getting the Grabber onto Your Toolbar
Below are a pair of buttons called Grabber. From a geek perspective these are just little JavaScript anchors, for everyone else, they're special links.
In order to use HLOM you need to click-and-drag an appropriate Grabber into the 'links' or 'bookmarks' section of your browser toolbar. (Diagram below).
Grabber
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This should work in most breeds of modern browser, including Mozilla, Safari, Netscape (6 and higher), Firefox |
Grabber
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This is a slightly modified version that works happily with recent releases of Opera |
Grabber
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You should only use this Grabberif you're using MS Explorer 6+ You do know that there are other, better, more open-source, standard-compliant browsers available, right? And that they're free..? (www.mozilla.org) |
The Warning Dialogue
Some browsers will show you an alert or dialogue box telling you that the link you're adding contains JavaScript and may be a Bad Thing; You can safely ignore this. The Grabber contains a simple, non-threatening Javascript.
Problems Getting the Grabber into Your Toolbar?
MS Explorer will sometimes refuse to let you change the toolbars. If this happens you just need to go to: View > Toolbars > Lock the Toolbars and make sure that this feature is turned off.
Making an Account
Once in your toolbar the Grabber will lurk unobtrusively until you need it.
But of course in order to add links to HLOM you need to create a user account.
We require three pieces of information to create an account:
*Email Addresses will not be divulged to anyone at all outside of the HLOM developers, and are used strictly by HLOM administrators.