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3. What to do with all those sites. Once you've gotten your Web browser “wet ” so to speak it won't be long before you're going to get interested in some ways to keep your sampled “keeper” Web sites organized. There are many shareware software programs that are available to do this and the most competent browsers have at least rudimentary address books included for this purpose. A list with descriptions of the shareware software (such as ericsbookmarks hotlistgrabber urlclerk and urlmanager) can be seen at URL http://www.jumbo.com/. There are also commercial applications available that are somewhat better at this task. Compiling this survey of neuroscience Web sites gave me an opportunity to test WebWhacker and CyberFinder extensively. WebWhacker from the ForeFront Group version 1.0.2 http://www.ffg.com/ (telephone: 713-961-1101) lets you save specific pages without leaving your browser. You can then and go back to that site later and save the pages it contains as well as some of the external links to a local file on your hard drive. In that way you can browse to your heart's content usually much more quickly than if you were downloading each page as you needed it from the Web. A demo version good for 30 days ia available from their Web site in both Mac and Windows versions. CyberFinder produced by Aladdin Systems of Watsonville CA (telephone: 408-761-6200) provides “hot keys” through which you can blindly save Web sites you like to libraries of sites that you can organize in any categories you wish; you drag saved sites from one library to another and you can go to the selected sites immediately by using another hot key to launch your Web browser to that site. Through a sad mistake this pioneer discovered that one cannot keep both programs installed at the same time. Web Buddy (for PowerPC Macs now) [from DataViz Inc. Trumball CT (telephone: 203-268-0030; URL http://www.dataviz.com/] will also try to perform exactly this same series of tasks but was only recently available for testing in a beta version. It goes the other commercial software one better by allowing the user to make bookmarks of a site make immediate captures of pages at a site at many levels below the home page or schedule those often-prolonged downloading sessions for times when the Web is less prone to heavy use (such as 3 a.m. on Sundays).