I would like to share with you some of the apps that help me with my day-to-day use on my macbookpro. I have found that reading blogs and tweets from members of the apple community has been useful in enhancing my productivity as a grad student. In addition, advice gleaned from these communication sources has provided me with relevant knowledge for getting greater value out of my laptop.

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Today I will focus on Web Snapper from TastyApps.com which I first heard about on a tweet last month from Chris Messina. If is only available for Mac OS X 10.4 or better (sorry non-mac users).

It is one of my favourite tools and I use it almost daily as it captures complete webpages as a pdf which is especially useful for anyone researching social media as you would be able to easily capture changes in digital environments over time (e.g. new features on Facebook). I paid $8 for the download on Tastyapps and it is the best $8 I have spent in a while.

Basically you drag and drop the url into the Web Snapper popup box and then click the down arrow so that you can choose where to save the entire page (regardless of length) as a pdf. To view it, once it is done saving, you just click on the magnifying glass and the pdf will open in the location where it has been saved.

It is now also available for download on the Apple download page. I used Web Snapper to capture the Apple Canada page below as an example.

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Relevance: Just another reason why I love my macbookpro – cool mac apps.