Find It! Keep It!
Keep webpages in your own database so you never lose them.

Uses

Author and former BBC correspondent, Philip Short knew to save articles before they disappeared. But it was hard to find the articles he had saved. Find It! Keep It!'s tag and search features help him quickly find what he needs.
Denis keeps DIY articles and videos that help him renovate his house. Most of the pages he had bookmarked became useless when the many sites he used started requiring subscriptions: "It's not worth subscribing to a site for a single video!"

Ashley's parents bought Find It! Keep It! to help her study, but she also uses it to keep her friends' MySpace profiles (including music and video!). She has copies of all her favorite stars' websites ... Her parents have not yet caught her using it when she was supposed to be sleeping.
Teacher Nathan uses Find It! Keep It! to provide a rich Internet experience to his students while preventing them from wasting time on other websites. Now he can concentrate on individual kids rather than spending his time policing the classroom.

Christine is an artist. She visits the Louvre, the Metropolitan Art Museum, and the British Museum virtually. With her slow modem, looking at artwork used to take a long time, but now that she keeps the pages she likes, she can return to them again and again.
Ben loves Computer Games. He stays abreast of the latest console news, saving reviews and videos to show to his friends. He keeps every cheat code he finds. He even saves some flash To check whether an item on a page uses flash, right-click on it. A context menu will appear. If it includes an "About ... Flash ..." menu item, it is Flash. games to play them later!

Don has collected stamps since his twenties. Now he uses the internet to research their history. He keeps relevant articles, because finding them is like finding a needle in a haystack. As Arthur C Clarke once said about the internet "Why go to the Niagara Falls, if all you want is a cup of water?"
Avid Sports enthusiast Dave keeps statistics and video highlights of the lastest games. His extensive collection has helped him win bets against his friends.

Scientist Jing saves research papers to take home with her on her laptop. She used to print things out, but she didn't like the mess, and this way she always has something to read if a meeting gets too boring.
Andy is a Web Designer. He loves being creative. He uses Find It! Keep It! to show prospective clients his work without having to gain access to their internet connection.

As a senior sales representative, Erik often flies around the world. Before every trip, his secretary would collect the documents she thought he would need from the corporate intranet. Unfortunately she often missed something vital. Now that Erik uses Find It! Keep It! at work, he knows his collection is always up to date... and he can take the day's news with him to read on airplanes without Internet access!
Doctor Aaron keeps prescription instructions to take with him when visiting patients. He can give patients print outs for most of their conditions from his extensive portable library.
Small Print! Philip Short and Denis Darmon are real users (although Denis' photo is not yet on the website). The other stories are provided for illustrative purposes. I'd prefer more real user stories. If you'd like to feature on this page, please email me. Thanks to the stock photographers Carl Dwyer, Griszka Niewiadomski, Oliver Gruener, Adam Ciesielski, Marc Garrido i Puig, Pasqualantonio Pingue for their photos.
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What pages would you like to keep?

To keep a page, click the Keep This! button

Find It! Keep It! is a web browser.
You already know how to use it.
When you find something you like, simply click Keep This!
You can tag a page with keywords, to help you find the page later. When you press enter, the page will also be saved. Tags allow you to structure the database into the order you want.
When you visit a page you have saved before, the dates of your saved copies appear in the Kept Pages section.
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Find previously saved pages using tags or full text search

Explore your database by clicking the squirrel. Your saved pages are automatically categorized by whether they were tagged or not and by the site from which they came. Other sections are provided for Bookmarks, Bookmarklets Bookmarklets are bookmarks containing instructions that tell the browser to perform an action, Trashed pages and Trashed tags.
Quickly find pages using the tags you gave them and/or the site from which they came. Prefixing a tag by a minus removes pages with that tag from the search results.
Click the magnifying glass to add a tag to the search query. You can copy the search query from the URL bar to return to it later.
Alternatively search your documents using words. Prefixing a word with a minus removes pages containing that word from the search results. You can, of course, search by tags and words simultaneously.
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Watch and record online videos in Style

Most Browsers expect you to give them your undivided attention. If you use another application, video playback becomes jerky and is often hidden by another window.

You can tell Find It! Keep It! to float above every other window, and run video at full speed, so you can watch videos while you work.For instance you can watch the news and take notes.
Find It! Keep It! saves most Flash To check whether an item on a page uses flash, right-click on it. A context menu will appear. If it includes an "About ... Flash ..." menu item, it is Flash. videos as well as some RealVideoTo check whether an item on a page uses Real Player, right-click on it. A context menu will appear. If it includes an "Play in RealPlayer" menu item, it is Real Content. videos. Saved videos load on demand and start immediately.
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What can you save?

To the best of my knowledge, having researched every alternative I could find, no other Mac software saves as many kinds of web content as Find It! Keep It!


Static HTML Static HTML webpages look the same however many times you reload them. webpages, pictures, plain text or PDFs that you can bookmark.

Dynamic pages that use Javascript Javascript is a programming language which can be embedded into webpages to change them dynamically. For instance, a page's javascript can change advertisements each time you reload it., such as Google Maps, Amazon's search inside feature, GMail or Zohowriter.

Most Flash To check whether an item on a page uses flash, right-click on it. A context menu will appear. If it includes an "About ... Flash ..." menu item, it is Flash. based audio and video, such as those found on popular sites YouTube, Google Video, Grouper, Guba, Porkolt, Myspace, and Reuters.

Flash To check whether an item on a page uses flash, right-click on it. A context menu will appear. If it includes an "About ... Flash ..." menu item, it is Flash. based games. Flash based presentations such as found on museum websites.
Any content that is retrieved from the website as a file will be saved. This is usually the case for Flash To check whether an item on a page uses flash, right-click on it. A context menu will appear. If it includes an "About ... Flash ..." menu item, it is Flash. video and audio, and is sometimes the case for RealTo check whether an item on a page uses Real Player, right-click on it. A context menu will appear. If it includes an "Play in RealPlayer" menu item, it is Real Content. audio and real video. An hour and a half video from google video takes 270Mb of disk space, while an advertisment laden webpage takes around 1Mb.
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Prefer a different browser?

The Find It! Keep It! bookmarklet Bookmarklets are bookmarks containing instructions that tell the browser to perform an action. The Find It! Keep It! link in this paragraph is a bookmarklet. makes importing a page from your favorite browser a breeze. Supported browsers include: Safari, Firefox, Camino, Opera, OmniWeb and Shiira.
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Other Features

If a page is inaccessible, with a single click you can check whether it is available from an internet cache Internet caches keep recent copies of popular pages.. Choose from the Coral Cache Coral Cache provides copies of pages that are so popular that the websites that host them cannot keep up with the number of people reading them., Google, Yahoo, MSN, Spurl Spurl users can save partial copies of web pages to Spurl. Because Spurl only saves part of a web page, Spurled pages work only as long as the parts that were not saved still exist. Sceptics can use Safari's Activity window to see what Spurl did and did not save. or the WebArchiveThe WebArchive stores partial copies of pages more than 6 months old that were crawled by the Alexa search machine..
Prevent Find It! Keep It! from accessing the network when browsing saved confidential documents.
Change the title of saved pages by double clicking on them.
Incrementally search web pages, text and PDFs.
Run any Safari supported bookmarklet Bookmarklets are bookmarks containing instructions that tell the browser to perform an action.
Drag links to other pages to the URL Notepad, so that you can read them later.
Delete unwanted pages.
Drag the left bar closed or use the left bar buttons.
Full documentation is included in the Find It! Keep It! download.
System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4