Clipmarks 2.0

Want to better way to use and share your online findings? Clipmarks 2.0 can take you beyond basic bookmarks by giving you a simple tool for grabbing content from Web sites.

Here’s how it works. Sign up for a free Clipmarks account, and download and install the software, which is also free. (Installation takes less than a minute; the software supports Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Flock.) Clipmarks appears as a single button in your browser’s toolbar. When you see something you’d like to grab, place your cursor over the content; pictures, text, or video and a box will appear around it. Click your mouse, and the info is clipped. Then choose to save it publicly or privately to your Clipmarks account, post it to your personal blog, e-mail it to up to 100 recipients, or print it out.

We ran into a few problems. Clipmarks has trouble clipping information from Flash-based sites. Also, if you have the toolbar open and want to click a hyperlink, Clipmarks sometimes can’t distinguish between opening the link and clipping information from the page. Moreover, it can be tricky to get the somewhat jumpy clipping boxes positioned exactly on what you want to grab. And when posting text clips publicly, you have to keep the character count below 1,000.

Clipmarks also has a community aspect, which lets you read and see what other people are clipping. Plus, the site has a great search engine for finding information on a particular topic, whether in your clips or in all public ones. For everyday saving, sharing, and sending little snippets of the Web, download Clipmarks 2.0 immediately.