CoolBrowser

CoolBrowser was developed to help you extract important information from a web page and to store that information in a database for easy retrieval afterwards. Many websites show a lot if irrelevant stuff wrapped around the content that you are really interested in. With CoolBrowser you can get just the information you need.

Secondly, the history function of most browsers is very primitive and a more searchable history was required.

CoolBrowser is an Internet Explorer plug-in. It integrates with your browser therefore all the functions are available while surfing.

Here are some key features of "CoolBrowser":

￭ With this innovative tool you can extract or filter out certain sections of a web page. This means that things like menu's, banners, header etc. can be removed, leaving you with only the pure content of the page. This content can then be saved to the snippets database or filtered in a new browser window. The filter can also extract all images and links from a web page.

￭ The snippets function in the same way as a normal directory structure. The downloaded snippets are available directly in your browser and can therefore be viewed immediately. Snippets can be edited with the build-in HTML editor. A snippet folder can be compiled to a single document in the browser. Most importantly, snippets can be browsed offline.

￭ While CoolBrowser is active, it stores certain information of every web page visited. This information includes the keywords of a web page. The author of a web page sets up keywords so that search engines can index these words. But you can now search you own keyword database offline. It is also possible to search visited pages on the title or URL. This makes it extremely easy to find a website that you visited before.

￭ The indexer scans every page that you visit and builds up a searchable dictionary of words. The indexer can be enabled when required, or it can be left running. It scans the current page in the background while you are reading it. The indexed words can be searched using the search function mentioned above.

Limitations:

￭ the number of snippets is limited to 15 ￭ the filter does not extract all content