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I remember randomly running across this awesome Firefox extension called Scrapbook.  Back then it was still in a very early phase of development, but now the thing is really awesome.

From the developer’s website:

ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and manage the collection. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are:

* Save Web page
* Save snippet of Web page
* Save Web site (In-depth Capture)
* Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks
* Highlighter, Eraser and various page editing features
* Full text search and quick filtering search
* Text edit feature resembling Opera’s Notes

Pretty much says it.  You can use it to save any webpage instantly.  Or any part of a web page. If you want to save an entire website, you can choose a more advanced feature and tell the extension to save every page and every page that it links to (to itself).   This is the in-depth capture listed above.  Basically, it is like photocopying an exact copy of a webpage instantly.  A feature it has now that it didn’t have when I first used it was a note-taking feature, which is really growing on me.

After the extension is installed, you can place the scrapbook button on your toolbar or use the menu option at the top of the browser.  When you click the toolbar button, a sidebar appears on the left side of your browser.  I’ve bookmarked quite a few things as you can see in the following screenshot.  One of the coolest features is the highlighting and inline annotations features.  There is also a sticky annotation feature and a DOM inspector that allows you to see different elements of the web page and remove them if so desired.  In any case, here’s a screenshot of a Batesline post about the tea parties.  (I’m sure Michael won’t mind being a guinea pig!)       Note the different highlighting and the annotations.  (Click for bigger version)

Groovy, eh?

(did I just say groovy?)

I can think of a million applications where this extension would be useful.  One, in particular, would be saving a political candidate’s website – in whole – to hard drive.  That way you can show them their promises in full color when they pull the site later. 

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