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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.
网络的资源价值毋庸置疑，但人们在上网时习惯于很快从一个网站跳到另一个网站，很难记住具体内容是在哪个网站找到的。
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.
在网上搜寻意大利的饭店时，你可能会看到一个关于佛罗伦萨的连接，两个关于米开朗基罗的连接，四个关于意大利文艺复兴的连接。突然之间，你会找不到自己想看的饭店网页。如果你使用的浏览器有Web 2.0的功能，直接在网页中显示额外信息的话，那么回过头来寻找浏览过的网页变得尤其困难。
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.
有些人一边上网一边打开微软(Microsoft)的Word软件，以此规划自己的网络浏览记录。他们把网站的数据复制到Word文档中，但这是个烦人的过程，用户经常不得不浪费时间去调整格式和删除广告。有些人在找到想要的网页后就选择打印，但造成纸张和油墨的浪费。有经验的用户在浏览器中创建文件夹，存储关于其研究课题的各种网络链接，但这些数据很难与别人共享，身边没有电脑也很难打印出来。
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.
还有一个更好的办法，这星期我尝试了一下。我测试了惠普公司(Hewlett-Packard Co.)推出的“惠普智能网页打印软件”(HP Smart Web Printing Software)。这款免费程序旨在帮助用户建立一个能管理网页内容的虚拟剪贴簿，并在一个窗口内即可完成这些工作。利用内嵌在浏览器中的工具，用户可以选择网页文本和图片，将其复制到剪贴簿上。剪贴内容可以编辑，整理，保存为PDF文件或打印出来，使用户免受条幅广告和边框内容的困扰。
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.
我试用的这个版本在2007年10月末就能从www.hp.com/go/smartwebprinting下载到。它在最初版本（现已能在上述网站下载到）的基础上做了很多改进，包括允许用户自己添加文本到剪贴簿，并编辑剪贴簿的各项内容等。
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.
惠普智能网页打印软件也有其弱点：它只能在使用Windows操作系统的电脑上运行，不兼容Mac机；只能配合微软的IE6.0和7.0浏览器；并非所有内容都可完美地剪贴过去；输入文本也有限制，改变一个单词的字体、大小或颜色时，该文本框中的所有文字都会同样改变。
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.
但总的来说，我觉得这个智能程序大有用武之地。它并不张扬，只有使用时才显露身影；即使不经常用它，你也能记得如何操作；它是你的打印助手，能把要打印的网页内容输出到打印机；还能把选中的内容保存为PDF文件──这是一种与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.
惠普公司大力宣传该软件的环保特性，比如它可以有选择地打印你想要的内容，这样一来便可节省油墨和纸张。不过，我们也要清醒地意识到：这个产品虽然便于用户少打印无用的网页内容，却会鼓励用户多打印文件，从而帮助惠普公司销售更多高额利润的打印机墨盒和纸张。
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.
我利用该软件整理网页内容，以便在打印我想看的资料时减少用纸。我更看重的是这款软件的剪贴功能，它就像一本 素的剪贴簿，便于用户整理各类研究内容。
