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There's no denying the Web's value as a resource, but the temptation to quickly navigate from one site to the next makes it challenging to remember where the content was found.
網絡的資源價值毋庸置疑，但人們在上網時習慣于很快從一個網站跳到另一個網站，很難記住具體內容是在哪個網站找到的。
A query on hotels in Italy might lead you to select a link about Florence, then two links about Michelangelo and four links to Italian Renaissance art. Suddenly, the home page for a carefully researched hotel is forgotten. It's especially tough to backtrack through research using new sites with rich Web 2.0 features that display extra data directly within a Web page.
在網上搜尋意大利的飯店時，你可能會看到一個關于佛羅倫薩的連接，兩個關于米開朗基羅的連接，四個關于意大利文藝復興的連接。突然之間，你會找不到自己想看的飯店網頁。如果你使用的瀏覽器有Web 2.0的功能，直接在網頁中顯示額外信息的話，那么回過頭來尋找瀏覽過的網頁變得尤其困難。
Some people try to organize Web research by opening Microsoft Word documents alongside their browsers. They copy and paste data from sites into the documents, but this is usually a messy process that traps users into wasting time fixing formats and deleting ads. Others press Print whenever a helpful site appears, resulting in wasted paper and ink. Savvier users create folders within their Web browsers that hold multiple URLs about a research topic, but these data can't easily be shared or printed for use away from the PC.
有些人一邊上網一邊打開微軟(Microsoft)的Word軟件，以此規劃自己的網絡瀏覽記錄。他們把網站的數據復制到Word文檔中，但這是個煩人的過程，用戶經常不得不浪費時間去調整格式和刪除廣告。有些人在找到想要的網頁后就選擇打印，但造成紙張和油墨的浪費。有經驗的用戶在瀏覽器中創建文件夾，存儲關于其研究課題的各種網絡鏈接，但這些數據很難與別人共享，身邊沒有電腦也很難打印出來。
There's a better way, and this week I took it for a spin. I tested the HP Smart Web Printing Software, a free program from Hewlett-Packard Co. that aims to help users compile a virtual clip book of content from Web sites while they're browsing, within the same window. Using a tool in the browser, users highlight and copy images and text from a Web page and add them to the clip book. These clips can be edited, enhanced, saved as a PDF or printed out, without excess banner ads or sidebars.
還有一個更好的辦法，這星期我嘗試了一下。我測試了惠普公司(Hewlett-Packard Co.)推出的“惠普智能網頁打印軟件”(HP Smart Web Printing Software)。這款免費程序旨在幫助用戶建立一個能管理網頁內容的虛擬剪貼簿，并在一個窗口內即可完成這些工作。利用內嵌在瀏覽器中的工具，用戶可以選擇網頁文本和圖片，將其復制到剪貼簿上。剪貼內容可以編輯，整理，保存為PDF文件或打印出來，使用戶免受條幅廣告和邊框內容的困擾。
I tried a version of this program that will be available for download at the end of next month from www.hp.com/go/smartwebprinting. It improves on the first version of the program (available now using the same URL) in various ways, including allowing you to add your own text to the clip book and crop clip-book items.
我試用的這個版本在2007年10月末就能從www.hp.com/go/smartwebprinting下載到。它在最初版本（現已能在上述網站下載到）的基礎上做了很多改進，包括允許用戶自己添加文本到剪貼簿，并編輯剪貼簿的各項內容等。
HP Smart Web Printing Software isn't without its quirks: It only works on Windows computers, not Macs, and only with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0. Not everything copies over to the clip book perfectly. Also, typed-in text has its limits: changing the font type, size or color of one word changes all words in the text box.
惠普智能網頁打印軟件也有其弱點：它只能在使用Windows操作系統的電腦上運行，不兼容Mac機；只能配合微軟的IE6.0和7.0瀏覽器；并非所有內容都可完美地剪貼過去；輸入文本也有限制，改變一個單詞的字體、大小或顏色時，該文本框中的所有文字都會同樣改變。
But all in all, I found this smart program to be a real boon. It's unobtrusive enough to stay hidden until used, and you'll remember how it works even if you only use the program once in a while. It functions as a printing assistant, helping to send certain sections of a Web site to the printer, and it will also save whatever you're working on as a PDF -- the universal format for sharing with others.
但總的來說，我覺得這個智能程序大有用武之地。它并不張揚，只有使用時才顯露身影；即使不經常用它，你也能記得如何操作；它是你的打印助手，能把要打印的網頁內容輸出到打印機；還能把選中的內容保存為PDF文件──這是一種與他人共享文件的通用格式。
H-P likes to tout its HP Smart Web Printing Software's environmentally friendly qualities, namely its ability to print just what you want, without wasting ink or paper on extra pages that would otherwise print. But make no mistake about it: This product, while helping users not to print extra items from Web sites, still encourages users to print, thus helping H-P sell more of its high-margin ink and paper.
惠普公司大力宣傳該軟件的環保特性，比如它可以有選擇地打印你想要的內容，這樣一來便可節省油墨和紙張。不過，我們也要清醒地意識到：這個產品雖然便于用戶少打印無用的網頁內容，卻會鼓勵用戶多打印文件，從而幫助惠普公司銷售更多高額利潤的打印機墨盒和紙張。
I used the program to trim content from Web sites, printing more of what I wanted to read in fewer pages. I focused on this program's clip-book functionality, which works as a bare-bones virtual scrapbook to organize research.
我利用該軟件整理網頁內容，以便在打印我想看的資料時減少用紙。我更看重的是這款軟件的剪貼功能，它就像一本 素的剪貼簿，便于用戶整理各類研究內容。
