Written by PatrickJ on Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Webaroo – Major Update Version

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Now you can save offline copies of web-sites that go 5 links deep, and you can choose to save common filetypes as well – like docs, pdfs, and audio / video files.

Webaroo has already been an interesting and useful application to me, since I started trying it out – as mentioned in a previous post.

Now a major new update for Webaroo has been released, and it looks to have some very significant improvements, and ones that may help a lot in terms of its usefulness on a mobile device.

Read on for more on the improvements in this update …

If you don’t already know about Webaroo, what it does is allows you to download offline versions of entire web-sites (to a given link level deep), or even ‘web packs’ that cover an entire subject area. Wikipedia, for instance, is a 6gb web pack download.

It works very nicely with mobile devices – installs easily, and allows you to copy / sync your library to your handheld. Now, with the ability to go up to 5 links deep when saving a site, and to grab common file types as well, this could really become an excellent offline reference resource.

Webaroo screenshot

For anyone who works in a sort of technical role, this could be especially valuable. If you’re using a non-connected PDA, and have a large enough storage card, you’ve got a great potential knowledgebase and technical reference library. Even if you do have a smartphone that’s always connected, Webaroo offers a big benefit in speed of browsing, as now you’ve got everything held locally on the device.

And, here’s a list of some of the enhancements in this latest update:

Download sites at up to 5 link levels deep
Also get common file types – .doc, .pdf – and audio and video files
Browser button than be added to IE / Firefox toolbars
Schedule updates (to site content)
Change the location where Webaroo content is stored, and get alerts when you approach maximum disk space thresholds
Import browser bookmarks
Interactive updates and notifications

Webaroo is well worth a look, for use on a laptop, or on a mobile device, and this latest update makes it even more powerful. And it’s FREE. To get more info, and download it, go to:

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