General

• Clean and easy to use user-friendly interface.
• Full graphical standard Windows interface.
• Window snapping to the desktop.
• SurfGem can import, Netscape™/Mozilla™, Internet Explorer™ and Opera™ bookmarks.
• File storage and structure supported with industrial strength GemX DobermanDB™ database engine
• Fully Themed application. You can use existing msstyles Visual Styles theme files or use the built in themes. You can get many Visual Style themes from www.themexp.org

Productivity Tools to make the difference

• Generous menu keyboard shortcuts.
• Ability to launch GemX applications from SurfGem
• Can start login when Windows starts
• Quick access to functions with a generous amount of context specific right click menus.
• Launch all installed major and generic web browsers from within SurfGem.
• Ability to launch email directly from SurfGem
• Two different screen modes, from normal to small view and vice versa.
• Ability to open recently opened files from the File menu or use the handy file history.
• Facility to rate and attach hot status icons to bookmarked URLs.
• Captures a bitmap image of a Web site and displays it as a thumbnail in the data grid.
• Options to capture only a small thumbnail, a full size image, or both.
• Quality of captured images can be adjusted.
• A Web site's captured image can be saved from the database as a bitmap file.
• Quick Image Capture button takes a snapshot of a Web site in a browser window.
  This enables you to add thumbnails to existing Bookmarks without having to add the Bookmark again.
• Optionally displays a pop-up thumbnail when the mouse moves over a Bookmark in the data grid.
• Large image viewer that can zoom, pan and save image.

Customize SurfGem through its Settings

• User defined coloring for data displays.
• Internal compression makes the files smaller with lower memory usage.
• SurfGem can automatically start when your Windows system starts up.
• The SurfGem main window can attach itself neatly to the edges of the desktop.
• Ability to show or hide various parts of the window to save more screen space.
• Toolbars and info panels can be hidden to save valuable desktop space.
• Auto save your current file every x minutes.

Flexible Folders Navigator

• Easy access and management of your bookmarks with a structured tree view window.
• Choose from supplied art, different folder icons to spice up Navigator folders
• Besides being able to change icons on the navigator you can also add a flag to each folder
• Not restricted to default folder name text colour on Navigator. You can change to the colour you like.
• Easily locate flagged folders with SurfGem's Unique 'Folder Markers' function.
• The text of Folder Markers can be edited.
  This enables you to have Markers such as "Processed", "Done", "To be done"...
• Use Cut, Copy and Paste commands in the Navigator.
• Define the font and color of the Navigator text.
• Incremental searching for quick access to folders.
• Automatic Navigator tree sorting.
• Navigator items can be moved up or down, overriding the automatic sorting.
• You can have a practically unlimited number of folders and sub-folders in each file.

Flexible Data Listing

• Data list clearly shows important information.
• You can define your own custom colors for the display.
• Specific columns can be hidden or shown.
• Re-organize the order of the columns just by dragging them to a new position.
• You can sort data on any column in ascending or descending order.
• You can practically have an unlimited number of records in a folder.
• Optionally displays a pop-up thumbnail when the mouse moves over a Bookmark in the data grid.
• Ability to power search your bookmarked URL addresses within the SurfGem database

Increase your efficiency with SurfGem Drag & Drop

• Ability to drag and drop URLs from OLE compliant web browsers directly on to URLs list grid.
• Ability to organize your bookmark folders visually by drag and drop.
• Drag text from Internet Explorer, or other OLE compliant application, directly into a record.
• Drag and easily move your bookmarks from one folder to another.
• Re-organize the order of data columns just by dragging them to a new position.