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Posted by Cassius
Jul 10, 2007 at 03:10 PM
JJ wrote:
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>I have had great success with Web Research.
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>I have found that it does the best job at capturing web pages.
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>Here is just one example of a test I conducted:
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>Go to orbitz.com and make a reservation.
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>Using Web Research, the page was captured perfectly.
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>I then tried UltraRecall, which only captured parts of the page.
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>Try this and you can see for yourself.
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>-jj
Well, I tried it, except that I didn’t go all the way…I didn’t want to actually make a reservation and Southwest is cheaper and is nicer to its customers (except for no in-flight meals).
I stopped at the page where I was to enter my name, card number etc. I filled in a name and then saved the page using Web Research, Surfulater, and MyBase.
MB & WR saved the page perfectly, EXCEPT the filled-in blanks were blank. That is, information entered into the blanks was not saved.
Surfulater saved a version of a DIFFERENT page—a somewhat mangled version of the opening ORBITZ page. This is more than strange, as I have had another page that Surfulater saved better than did MB.
Apparently S does worse on some pages and better on others than does MB.
So, we now have a little info, but hardly enough to make an intelligent decision on which is best at saving pages. Hope more will join this effort.
-c
Posted by Jan Rifkinson
Jul 10, 2007 at 05:10 PM
How does Scrapbook stack up w these results?
Yes, it’s true that Net Snippets is not being developed any more but it woks quite well for what is being discussed in this thread.
Posted by Jan Rifkinson
Jul 10, 2007 at 05:22 PM
BTW, I found the following from the Macropool website somewhat amusing:
Tip: For better results, additionally install the Scrapbook Firefox Extension, which the Web Research Firefox extension will then utilize for saving pages.
Posted by Ike Washington
Jul 10, 2007 at 11:54 PM
Jan Rifkinson wrote:
>How does Scrapbook stack up w these results?
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>Yes, it’s true that Net Snippets is not
>being developed any more but it woks quite well for what is being discussed in this
>thread.
From the right-hand panel in my Firefox browser, Scrapbook displays a perfect copy of an Orbitz.com search result.
I can add notes and highlights to the page. I can get rid of sections I don’t want. I can combine the page with other pages, move it to other Scrapbooks. Not bad for a free application. The search is so-so, getting slower as the data increases since it doesn’t index first. I use dt search here so this isn’t an issue for me.
Net Snippets - never really used it to save whole pages. I remember some pages looking not quite right. I used it to store extracts taken from files already on my hard drive. Since development stopped, I’ve switched to Surfulater and EverNote for this.
I do miss Net Snippet pro’s outputting abilities. Add your own logo, create design templates, get html documents of your research project which look good in a business setting.
And since it launched as a left-hand panel on my screen, I had a pretty nifty work flow: copy articles, pdfs into Firefox Scrapbook on the left, work in a wiki in the center, send finished work over to Net Snippets on the right. Pity it’s not being developed any further; but it’s fine for storing odds and ends.
Ike
Posted by Ike Washington
Jul 11, 2007 at 12:05 AM
Cassius wrote:
>JJ wrote:
>>
>>I have had great success with Web Research.
>>
>>I have found that it does
>the best job at capturing web pages.
>>
>>Here is just one example of a test I
>conducted:
>>
>>Go to orbitz.com and make a reservation.
>>
>>Using Web Research, the
>page was captured perfectly.
>>
>>I then tried UltraRecall, which only captured
>parts of the page.
>>
>>Try this and you can see for yourself.
>>
>>-jj
>
>Well, I tried
>it, except that I didn’t go all the way…I didn’t want to actually make a reservation
>and Southwest is cheaper and is nicer to its customers (except for no in-flight
>meals).
>
>I stopped at the page where I was to enter my name, card number etc.
Sorry, I should have said that, like Cassius, I stopped short of actually booking a flight. Scrapbook saved both the Orbitz search results and the flight details page perfectly.
Ike