Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Email Grabber: A Tool with Lots of Potential

http://www.emailgrabber.net/

This $17 program is a great resource for people who are trying to compile lists of addresses from web pages (directories, databases, etc.). Student groups, authors, others may find this very useful.

For example:

I went to http://policyexperts.org/us_experts/us_experts_issues.cfm and clicked "American History" box. A list of all policy experts in "American History" popped up (including me!). I copied that web address to Email Grabber 2 and -- presto! -- all the email addresses appeared in a preview pane. You then have the option of exporting to text, CSV, and options to separate by line, semi-colon or comma.

NOTE: If you use the trial version, it will grab all the emails but scramble the part before the @ symbol. That is a trial limitation. I can attest that the $17 full version does cough up unscrambled email addresses!

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2 comments:

Williebee said...

And thus, another Spammer is born.

:)

Deb just showed me your site.

Can you send me a link to the study on kids not liking e-readers please?

-- Butch Wilson

testing05401 said...

One man's spam is another man's steak. LOL.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203577304574277041750084938.html

or http://tinyurl.com/lr4klc

Amazon is doing its own larger study this fall. Even if students liked the interface (I don't think they will), the economics doesn't work out: e-book sellers tout 180 day textbook subscriptions that expire (boo) with no resale value. Or permanent copy at half the cost of the "regular" print text. BUT . . . you can't buy a used copy (at 65% of list) and resell at 35-50% -- the net cost being well under half list).

Apple just announced Coursesmart textbook subscriptions via iPhone. Look for a larger e-reader to be next. Apple will bring the "real thing" to market. That's my prediction.

Other players are Plastic Logic (UK), Sony, Fujitsu (large COLOR screen but very expensive).