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Technical Help & Discussion => General Tech Discussion, News & Q&A => Topic started by: Clive on April 10, 2006, 12:25

Title: Surf the net without a connection
Post by: Clive on April 10, 2006, 12:25

A revolutionary product means web users will soon be able to download large chunks of the internet to their hard drives and then surf the web when they aren't connected to the net.

The new free-to-download application from Webaroo lets you select you favourite sites or groups of sites, such as news, and caches them.

Using the Webaroo application, people can search for information and surf the web as if they were connected. The only limitation is that, of course, it isn't possible to send information to the sites, for example if you want to reply to an email.

President of Webaroo Bradley Husick believes the technology will change the way we use the internet, and says now people will be able to use their laptops to surf the web while on a plane or in places with no Wi-Fi connection or where Wi-Fi is too pricey.

He said downloading 75,000 pages will use around 1.2GB of disk space.

www.webaroo.com

Title: Surf the net without a connection
Post by: Sandra on April 10, 2006, 13:18

Its probably similar to this Clive :

http://www.httrack.com/

Title: Surf the net without a connection
Post by: sam on April 10, 2006, 14:34

hasn't this sort of thing been around since the internet began??

Title: Surf the net without a connection
Post by: Clive on April 10, 2006, 15:37

The ones I've used in the dim and distant past were worse than useless as they would record pages but not sub-pages.  Maybe this one is better.   :)

Title: Surf the net without a connection
Post by: Simon on April 10, 2006, 15:38

Quote from: "sam"

hasn't this sort of thing been around since the internet began??

Yes, they are called BOOKS.  :rtfm:

Title: Surf the net without a connection
Post by: Sandra on April 10, 2006, 15:41

HTTrack saves sub pages Clive.

Once you have downloaded even the whole website if you wanted to, it opens on your pc as if you were on the actual site  :)

Title: Surf the net without a connection
Post by: sam on April 10, 2006, 15:50

Quote from: "Simon"

Quote from: "sam"

hasn't this sort of thing been around since the internet began??

Yes, they are called BOOKS.  :rtfm:

smart arse.

Title: Surf the net without a connection
Post by: Clive on April 10, 2006, 15:52

That sounds good Sandra.  The idea years ago was to save money because it was a national rate call to get internet access.  But it would still be useful if you were stuck in hospital for a few days.

Title: Surf the net without a connection
Post by: Simon on April 10, 2006, 16:09

Quote from: "sam"

hasn't this sort of thing been around since the internet began??

Quote from: "Simon"

Yes, they are called BOOKS.  :rtfm:

Quote from: "sam"

smart arse.

We have a smiley for that.  :smart:

Title: Surf the net without a connection
Post by: sam on April 10, 2006, 16:19

EVEN LARGER SMART ARSE (n.b. I can't be arsed with smileys all the time)

Title: Surf the net without a connection
Post by: Simon on April 10, 2006, 19:26

We have one for that too!  (https://www.pc-pals.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.avfu59.dsl.pipex.com%2Fsmileys%2Farsed.gif&hash=f37506b349f008201036f72841cd8c0bd5479e77)  :pmsl:

Title: Surf the net without a connection
Post by: sam on April 11, 2006, 11:59

:twisted: