Browseback to the future
web history visualization and search tool
SmileOnMyMac has released a public beta of its latest product, browseback, a web history visualization and search tool. browseback stores a PDF of every web page visited and makes the pages accessible through a unique interface that allows the user to browse thumbnails of the pages. This visual web history can also be searched by content, making it possible to easily retrieve visited web pages with a few keywords.
"Everyone has faced the problem of finding a web page they didn't bookmark," said Greg Scown, co-founder of SmileOnMyMac. "With browseback, you can look through thumbnails or do a search to find almost any web page you've visited. Your web browsing history becomes a reliable resource for research and reference."
By clicking on a thumbnail in the browseback interface, the user can view the web page online, as well as view, email, save or print a PDF of the page stored by the program.
"We've never released a public beta before," Scown said. "Because this product is so revolutionary, we wanted to get a better picture of how real people will use it before we finalize it."
browseback 1.0 price will be $29.95. The public beta can be downloaded and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
SmileOnMyMac makes creative productivity software, such as disclabel, the Macworld Eddy award-winning CD label design program; pagesender, feature-rich fax software that also received an Eddy; and PDFpen, the PDF editing tool that garnered 4 mice from Macworld. All SmileOnMyMac products are available to download free at http://www.smileonmymac.com.
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