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Posted by Michal
Oct 16, 2008 at 07:40 AM
I just checked out their blog:
http://blog.surfulater.com/2008/10/14/surfulater-version-3-update/
As a Macropool Web Research user, I’m tempted to try out the newly updated Surfulater…
NO.
Just sit down and write, silly girl. Get off the internet and stop CRIMPING around. Just pop out the cellular modem baby. That’s it…
Posted by JJ
Oct 16, 2008 at 02:08 PM
I too use WR and have used Surf in the past.
Here is my take:
1. Both do an excellent job of capturing web pages
2. Over the years, WR’s scope & functionality (non-web) has grown nicely
3. For me, the “killer” functionality includes:
*Ability to add/view/edit ms word, excel & powerpoint files (plus pdfs)
*Ability to send over over Outlook emails (and attachments) to WR
*ALL docs, spreadsheets, powepoints, pdfs, emails in WR are fully indexed
*And my favorite…. all WR items are fully indexed/searchable using MS DeskTop search
I actually prefer Copernic for my desktop search, but with MS Desktop search, I have everything in one search… This is important to me.
-jj
Posted by Cassius
Oct 18, 2008 at 06:41 AM
For those who like to save Web pages, I just found another possibility at http://www.freedownloadaday.com/.
It is PageNest free edition, which can also be found at http://pagenest.com/index.html .
I haven’t tried it yet, so I don’t know how well it works.
At present I use MyBase and am quite satisfied with it. WebResearch sometimes does a better job of copying “non-standard” Web pages, but myBase has other advantages…unless WR has had some major recent improvements.
-c
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Oct 20, 2008 at 01:51 PM
I have tried Surfulater 3. It is a good, solid program. http://www.surfulater.com/index.html
It does a better than ever job of making web clips. I’m moving back to Surfulater for that reason, having moved to Evernote 3 a few weeks ago.
The big difference between the two:
Surfulater 3 does a better job of clipping. Evenote, 3, like many such programs, most often removes lines between paragraphs on the clipped page. This make long articles harder to read, looks bad, and means wasting time to insert lines because it does not have a para format feature.
Surfulater, on the other hand, very rarely removes the line between paragraphs. In a test I made last week clipping to both EN and Surfulater, the two programs both did well - but Surfulater did better. Its page renditions were more accurate, and like I say, it kept spaces between paragraphs.
Surfulater also catches metadata better than any program I have seen. As a starter, even if the name of the publication appears before the article title on a web page, Surfulater is very often able to differentiate between the publication and the title on the second or third line, and to put the title into its title field. This saves time because one doesn’t have to make a manual correction.
In terms of other metadata, I love Surfulater. It accurately catches metadata, such as the publication and the date, and plunks it into the appropriate field. It also catches the web url. All of this metadata appears in field that appear with the article in Surfulater.
Surfulater also offers a feature added in one of the version 2 upgrades, and that is tags. The tags feature works well. Cloning files is also easy, and there’s a variety of linking possibilities. Surfulater also provides a highlighting capability.
I have found over the years that Neville Franks, the creator/developer of Surfulater, is one of the most responsive people I have ever dealt with. He listens to his users, and the listening is reflected in the way the program develops.
Daly
Posted by Michal
Oct 21, 2008 at 09:56 AM
Daly,
WebResearch has a feature similar to Surfulater’s tags - only it’s called “categories” instead of “tags”. You can assign each WR item a category or a subcategory, and view the categories as a tree.
I wonder though, are Surfulater items indexed/searchable using windows search (as JJ mentioned in a previous post)? With WR, when I type a word in the search box of Vista’s start menu, I instantly see all related WR items as well.
Michal