Browse your favourite web site offline!
I’m sure everyone of us had a situation when we liked the content of a particular web site and wanted to read that. Since you are tied up with your official work you do not have the time to read it but would like to read at leisure. One option is to bookmark it. We also know for sure that most of the users online do not go back to their bookmarks often if it is not related to work and there would be times when you have the time and want to go through the book marked content but you do not have access to the Internet. Luckily, grabbing your favorite, must-have content for your offline viewing pleasure is a really simple process. All you have to do is download a freeware called Webaroo (6.57 MB).
Webaroo is Windows-only (sorry Mac-sters), so if you’re a Windows user, 
now is the time to download Webaroo. Once you’ve got it, setting up Webaroo is simple: Just go through the installation wizard and accept the defaults. One tweak that I would like to mention is to change where the content that is downloaded by Webaroo is stored. By default the content is saved in the C drive but I would recommend to have the default storage on other drives as you would not like your C drive to be filled fast if it is your installation drive. When installation is finished, let the installer automatically launch Webaroo. You should now see the Webaroo icon in your system tray and the Webaroo page in your browser. The address you’re seeing (http://127.0.0.1:8008/…) is actually pointing toward your local computer, so what you’re viewing is a page on your hard drive. This is basically how you’ll browse all of your content once you add it to Webaroo; you add content, Webaroo downloads it, and you can browse it as though you’re online.
Add your content
You can add content of your favorite web sites and Webaroo allows you to 
customize. Use Webaroo the download so that only stuff you are interested in downloading can be downloaded. Webaroo allows you to define the depth of the download meaning that if there are links on the web page you would be downloading then the content of the link would be downloaded as well if you define the link depth as 1. If you set the link depth of 2, Webaroo will then follow all of the links on that page as well and so on. Webaroo suggests that you set your link depth to maximum of 3 however, a link depth of 1 should be enough otherwise the downloads are too huge.
Features
Webaroo also allows you to
- Update the downloaded content on regular basis which you can set up in the properties of the download.
- Further you can define whether Webaroo should download the embedded files (images, audio, flash, etc) or not.
- You can set the download to download certain file types only (eg. pdf only)
- You can also specify whether pages outside the website should be downloaded or not. In most cases you would not enable this option.
- You can also set the maximum download the size that should be downloaded. Webaroo would stop downloading the project as soon as that limit is reached.
Once the download is started Webaroo would should you the status of the download.Browse offline Once the job is completed you can browse the content by clicking on the job in the Webaroo and it would open that job in a web browser.
Happy offline browsing!
