Mac OS X 10.2 or newer, $60 at www.nisus.com
SURFSAVER 6,
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AskSam Systems
Saving a Web page instead of bookmarking it means you don't lose access to it when your Internet connection -- or the site itself -- dies. But the downside for Web pack rats is staying on top of a collection of archived pages. SurfSaver 6 offers another way out: By keeping a searchable database of all the Web pages it saves, it ensures that you can find what you bothered to keep.
SurfSaver adds one button to the Internet Explorer toolbar (it works only with IE, sadly). Clicking it reveals options to save the current page and other pages a link or more away from it.
From this same interface, you can also search through saved pages, fine-tuning queries through such helpful options as proximity (where two words must appear within so many words of each other). You can also annotate archived pages with comments and keywords. They're kept in a proprietary format to speed up searching but remain fully viewable within IE.
-- Rebecca Rohan
Win 95 or newer, $20 at www.asksam.com
