If you've ever tried to save a website, you already know that most browsers do a poor job at best. Sure there's a "Save Page" option on the File pull-down menu but just give it a try and you'll see what I mean. Depending on the brand of browser you're using, you will get different results. In fact, you'll most likely get different results saving different website pages from within the same browser. Most browsers will save website pages but they won't really look much like the original. Depending on the web page's content such as links, embedded JavaScript, applets, animations and more, you can be fairly sure that what you are saving won't really resemble what was originally there. But I recently discovered a website that attempts to save websites by emailing them directly.

JumpKnowledge or jkn.com is set up so that you can easily email most any web page and it lets you do so at no charge. You may ask yourself why not just email the webpage's address. You can but web pages are constantly changing.

And while the URL may remain the same, that doesn't insure that the page's appearance or content will always be what you saw when you sent it. Chances are highly likely that the webpage's content will somehow change sooner or later.

By using jkn.com, the page you see is the one that the recipient will get.

According to the site's developer, there may be some small inconsistencies but things should be close if not exact to what you saw when you sent it.

The website continues to improve upon that accuracy.

Using jkn.com is a snap. Just type in the web address and click the Send button. A new browser window opens up and you see the web page to be sent inside a small scrollable window. FireFox users are offered an extension that helps aid in the accuracy of the transmission. You are prompted to enter in the email addresses to which you want the captured web page delivered. There's even a checkbox that lets you email it to yourself since jkn.com has automatically detected your email address.

Other options let you include a priority level, category such as Friends, subject line and large box into which you can type any additional notes you want to send to the recipient. You can also create new categories.

Other abilities let you create as email address book culled from your copy of Outlook, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, Gmail, Plaxo and other email clients.

Once you're ready to send, you just click the Send Email button at the bottom of the screen and that's pretty much it. I tested out jkn.com by sending myself a copy of my radio talk show's website home page. I typed in http://www.computeramerica.com and hit the Send button. The home page that appeared in my Microsoft Entourage email inbox was dead on. Even the font was the same although further experimentation on some other websites yielded a few slight discrepancies. Still, the accuracy of the transmitted website was far more accurate than anything else I had tried to use in the past.

Other nice features let all of the links that appear in the sent website to be completely active yet all JavaScript on a page is automatically stripped out. This protects your recipient from popups and other annoying and sometimes malicious activity.

If you find yourself needing to accurately capture and send a web page complete with all of its links and do it all for free, then you'd best check out jkn.com. They just recently updated the website to make the service even more accurate.

www.jkn.com