ARCHIVED: What is ICeTEe for the Macintosh, and where can I get it?

ICeTEe is an extension that allows you to Cmd-click a URL and open it in an appropriate application. To Cmd-click, depress the Cmd (i.e., Open Apple) key while using your mouse to click a URL. The URL will highlight and flash as if selected, and then a helper application will open with the URL.

For example, if you were reading an email message in telnet that has the address of an interesting web site, you could Cmd-click it and Netscape Navigator would then open the URL.

You could also Cmd-click the URL for an FTP site in a SimpleText readme file and Fetch or Anarchie could be used to open that site.

If a URL is presented in a format that ICeTEe doesn't understand, you may still be able to open it by highlighting and Cmd-clicking the URL.

To use ICeTEe, you need to be running System 7.1 or higher and have installed Internet Config 1.1+. Not all applications will support Cmd-clicking; most word processors will not support it, and neither will Netscape Navigator (though you can use ICeTEe to open up a URL with Netscape Navigator). ICeTEe has been designed to work with programs which use the TextEdit function built into the Mac OS, though a few others will work. Examples of programs that support Cmd-clicking are recent versions of NCSA Telnet, BetterTelnet, SimpleText, BBEdit, Fetch, Anarchie, NewsWatcher, Eudora, and Claris Em@iler.

Some applications, such as Eudora, have implemented this as a built-in feature that does not require ICeTEe or will allow it to work with text areas not using TextEdit. Check the manual or readme files for specific applications to see if they support Cmd-clicking.

ICeTEe comes with Internet Config 1.1+; you can find it at most Mac OS archive sites. For more information, see ARCHIVED: For Mac OS X, where can I download freeware, shareware, commercial software, and software updates?