(h)iStoryboard 1.7 review

Forget the text only lists of URL's when searching for a visited page: let your visual memory help you in browsing through the Safari history Have at glance view of visited sites in live resizeble mini-pages and window and let (h)iStoryboard load the wanted page in Safari Adjustable mini-pages in size for accommodating a maximum of room or have them still readable Adjustable transparency for keeping (h)iStoryboard ready in the background Experience a fun new way of browsing the web by zapping through a mosaic of pages Each mini-page acts as a per-se browser which can even be navigated in place.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 441K Developer: UCSI Buy Now Price: $4.00 Updated: 05 Nov 2005

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Forget the text only lists of URL's when searching for a visited page: let your visual memory help you in browsing through the Safari history
Have at glance view of visited sites in live resizeble mini-pages and window and let (h)iStoryboard load the wanted page in Safari
Adjustable mini-pages in size for accommodating a maximum of room or have them still readable
Adjustable transparency for keeping (h)iStoryboard ready in the background
Experience a fun new way of browsing the web by zapping through a mosaic of pages
Each mini-page acts as a per-se browser which can even be navigated in place.

Here are some key features of "(h)iStoryboard":
(h)iStoryboard can load and show a configurable amount of pages from the URL's found in Safari history
The URL's list can be refreshed and the pages reduced in number by adding filter conditions based on the information present in the history
All loaded pages are shown at once as a tabloid and are live resizeble
Pages can be concurrently navigated in place or let be loaded in Safari
Pages tool tips show each URL and the last visited URL is shown in the palette
The mini-pages have their links and hot spots active, which allow to navigate them in place; by clicking in any other inactive part of the pages and then hitting return the pages are loaded in Safari
For reducing the number of pages and better focus the search (and consequently reduce bandwidth, memory and CPU usage) conditionals can be set and the resulting selection can be further reduced by deciding an arbitrary amount of pages out of the first matching URL's
The selected conditions are cumulative, eventually each condition can be negated by setting corresponding NOT checkboxes
(h)iStoryboard only shows pages for HTTP URL's and replacing any other with a placeholder, but still lets load the replaced page in Safari
The unlicensed copy is now not limited in the number of loading pages but it quits after 3 fetch operations executed.

Limitations:
The shareware is fully functional; you need a license to unlock it for unlimited runs.

What's New:
A control palette allows to filter the URL upon several criteria and a new customizeble list of URL's types is added to avoid the fetching of not interesting pages thus reducing RAM and CPU usage