Portable Offline Browser is the next generator of offline browser.
How it could be useful for you:
It will save connect charges because you will download the Web site you want at the highest possible speed and browse it offline with no Internet connection necessary.
It saves your time because Portable Offline Browser downloads up to 500 files simultaneously. Browsing from your hard disk is much faster than from the Internet, even if you have a cable connection.
It saves your nerves because downloaded Web sites are accessible at any time even if the Web site is not working, or has been moved or altered by hackers.
You can take the Web site with you if you travel with your laptop computer. You can have the Internet you want even when flying.
Many Web sites change rapidly and it is hard to find information that was there before. With Portable Offline Browser, you can make an archive of files that are interest you and access them at any time, even if the original Web site no longer exists.
A powerful Export feature of Portable Offline Browser allows you to share downloaded files with other people, transfer them to other computers or even make Web sites for burning to CDs. There is even an option to make Autorun CDs, so when you insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive, your computer will open the downloaded Web site automatically. This is especially good if you plan to take data from your Web site to show at somewhere else, as you will not need Portable Offline Browser. Such a CD could be viewed under any operating system, such as Mac OS or Linux.
Thanks to the powerful scheduling feature, you can automatically monitor Web sites and download changed information. Portable Offline Browser also includes a unique Schedule Manager that easily displays the process of making your schedule. Just use drag-and-drop to assign a time to check the Web site to any Project. To further automate tasks, Portable Offline Browser has the ability to use macros in starting address that will download different URLs according to the day, time, weekday, month or year. You can also set up Portable Offline Browser to dial the Internet when necessary and hang-up the connection, exit itself or shut down the computer once all downloads complete.
If you have an Intranet, you can easily share downloaded Web sites with your colleagues without a need to transfer files. Portable Offline Browser has an internal Web server that allows browsing of downloaded sites on other computers.
Professionals will enjoy the following abilities of Portable Offline Browser:
It is possible to download the whole site as is for editing and later uploading it back.
With the Portable Offline Browser you can analyze and post-process (data mine) a downloaded Web site. Portable Offline Browser is capable of passing downloaded Web sites to the powerful TextPipe tool that will perform all necessary manipulations to extract or change the desired data, or even to pump it to a database.
Why Portable Offline Browser?
It has an excellent user interface that combines ease-of-use and power. You will find it simple and understandable while containing everything you need to complete even the most difficult downloading tasks.
Offline browsing is very easy with Portable Offline Browser thanks to its Internal Web browser. You may print downloaded Web pages directly from Portable Offline Browser. Various external browsers are also supported and automatically recognized - MS Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, Opera, NetCaptor.
Portable Offline Browser supports most modern Internet technologies. Many Web sites contain Java scripts, Java classes, require cookies, post requests, referrers, Style Sheets (CSS), Macromedia Flash, XML/XSL files, Contents (.TOC), MP3 list (.M3U), Authorware (.AAM), Acrobat (.PDF), RealMedia (.SMIL, .RAM, .RPM), VRML (.WRL, .WRZ), QuickTime video (.MOV) and MS NetShow Channel (.NSC) files. Portable Offline Browser not only downloads these files, but also processes them to extract links and change them for offline browsing. Thus, you get the most complete Web site version that is highly prepared for offline browsing.
You can download not only Web sites, but also FTP, secured (HTTPS) and streaming (MMS, PNM, RTSP) sites. Various proxy servers are also supported, giving you access from inside a firewall or Intranet - HTTP, SOCKS 4/5, RTSP, User@Site. Download speed is the highest among offline browsers, because Portable Offline Browser is capable of downloading up to 500 files simultaneously.
Portable Offline Browser is the best when downloading protected Web sites because it supports HTTP and NTLM authorization, can submit logon forms, supports cookies and referrers. It is also possible to submit custom forms using the new feature in Internal Browser.
Adding a new Project is flexible and easy. You can use a Wizard, import from Favorites, Bookmarks, Hot lists, drag-and-drop links from browsers, paste them from the clipboard, use the context menu in MS Internet Explorer, add instantly from the Address bar and others. Multiple Project templates simplify routine new Project tasks.
Downloaded Web sites are stored in their native format rather than proprietary databases or formats. All links are made relative, so it is easy to move them to another place or even publish on your own Web server.
You have full control while downloading. Any Project allows you to specify which file types to load and which to skip, based on their extension, size, location. You can use keywords to specify servers, directories or filenames to be allowed or disallowed for downloading. You can abort any file download simply by right clicking on it. Portable Offline Browser allow you to manage the download queue. You can run, stop, suspend and resume downloading, save it to a file to continue later from exactly that point.
We focused on handy Projects management. You see all Projects (downloading tasks) at once on the screen. Any number of Projects could be started for downloading at the same time. You can group them by folders. You can add, edit, delete, copy, paste, backup, restore, search or export Projects and folders. You can view the Site Map of any downloaded Project and manage it.
It is possible to preserve old downloaded files, keeping up to 10,000 copies of older files.
You can evaluate Portable Offline Browser for a 30-day free trial period without any limitations. Registering Portable Offline Browser costs $149.95.