How to print the web you want
by Charlie Peverett in At home on 24.04.08
Ever print pages off the web? Frustrated by wasting your ink on all the banners, images and adds on the page that you don’t need?
Well here’s a neat trick: Aardvark.
It’s a free gadget that allows you to “clean up” webpages before you print them. And it’s brilliant.
Simply download the application - it’s designed for the Firefox web browser, but you can also get it to work in Internet Explorer, by following these instructions. And off you go.
When you get to a web page that’s overcrowded, click on the right-hand button of your mouse and select ‘Start Aardvark’.
From then on, as you pass your mouse over different areas they will be highlighted with a red border. Press ‘R’ and whatever’s inside the border is removed.
There are a number of other commands - and Aardvark has other uses for the more technically-minded.
But between ‘R’ and ‘U’ (which restores anything you’ve removed by mistake) you have all you need to quickly turn an ink-sapping monstrosity into a clean, print-friendly webpage.
Quite literally, neat.
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