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Web Information Saver

Web Information Saver

save/archive text, quotes from the web

Version:  1.2

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Please Improve

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: bilbybooks Friday, February 20 2004 @ 02:18 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

It is a great idea, but not not followed through by way of the app. It doesn't do what it says it will unless I am being stupid. I tried to go to a URL but could not after several attempts. I tried to manually paste in HTML code but it would not read. It is ok if you want to copy and save text files, but I wanted an HTML library of articles to browse. Anybody know something that will do this? I have a folders crammed with arcane articles on audio or culture or cars or environmental studies or electronics, etc etc.... But often they have picture diagrams too, so being able to save HTML packets in a library with search, etc would be cool.   
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3 comments |

Please Improve - smerritt

um, why can't you just use the "save as" feature in your browser, then select "web page, html only" or "web page, complete?" web page only will save just the web page, whereas web page complete will save the page as well as a folder with all the graphics. i.e., you don't need a special application just to save and archiove web pages.

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Friday, February 20 2004 @ 03:22 PM PST


Please Improve - Cali_1

Just read this:

<i>Why shouldn't i use the Browsers SAVE PAGE.. function?
I did it like this and lost soon the overview. It's always a complete site that is saved -even if you are just interested in one simple sentence! And these large files are scattered all over your harddisc and it's uncomfortable to find them or to search within them. WEB INFORMATION SAVER comes with a powerfull search function to find easily an information out of millions of possible entries </i>

But for now this stays the best option as long as java doesn't support full html functionality rendering

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Saturday, February 21 2004 @ 12:34 PM PST


Please Improve - Cali_1

The URL read is just for getting the title of the site
because JAVA don't supports enough HTML to use it as a full viewer or browser.
So only standard html code or code snippets (like a interesting table etc.) can be viewed within the tool.
But its of course possible to paste HTML code manually and to view it in the detail view in html.
If i used windows specific interfaces to include a real browser into the programm - it would be no more platform independent


So the "HTML" feature is right now just rudimentarily for easy html and a preview for the next versions. The major function is really the saving and archiving of normal text.

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Saturday, February 21 2004 @ 12:31 PM PST