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AskSam's SurfSaver helps you save your favorite pages
As you surf the Web you're bound to find stuff you want to keep. But bookmarks are no good if the Web site is off-line or dead. And using the "save" feature in your browser isn't a very good solution as you'll then have to find an indexing and search tool to make any sense out of your archives. More ...
A solution that I've used for years, literally, is SurfSaver from askSam Systems. SurfSaver grabs the page you are looking at (and optionally the pages below that) and makes a local copy in SurfSaver's proprietary format and provides the tools for searching. SurfSaver installs on your browser (Internet Explorer 4.0+ and Netscape Navigator 4.0+) and when you find a Web page you're interested in, you simply right click to pull up the context menu and select one of the SurfSaver options.
The first of these options allows you to do a quick save, which makes a copy of the current page in either the last folder you saved to or a specific default folder. The save option allows you to save to a folder (and create a cabinet or folder if needed), as well as add keywords, select how many pages below the current page you want to save, and browse other network user's collections of saved pages so you can add to their collections. SurfSaver's third context menu option is to search your collection of saved pages. This uses the browser window to provide a display pane for any selected document and a pane that lists the page titles of pages that meet the search criteria.
Searching is very efficient and unlike IE's save function, SurfSaver can always save Web pages.
SurfSaver comes in two flavors: A free version, which you might prefer to avoid as it contains ad display spyware (which is how they can make it freeware - the spyware in use is Timesink/Conducent) and a "Pro" version for $29.95, which is advertising free. Despite the spyware in the free version, this is a great utility. And if you do any amount of Web-based research get the Pro version - it will make your life much easier.
By Mark Gibbs 09/16/02
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