silvermountain
05-08-2010, 10:01 PM
Ever been out and about with your Diablo-based device in your pocket and thought;
"Darn, wish I could get on the internet right now to check the bus schedule site, airline information site, etc, etc"?
If all you need is one or two web pages you can simply save those as files through microB - but what if you need/want access to an entire site with all the underlying links, etc when you are away from wifi connection?
Solution: Webhttrack (http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/webhttrack/)
And you can download entire sites (including it's functionality, images, links, etc) - to use on your NIT wherever you go.
It's even easy to 'refresh it' to catch any changes that have happened since the last time you downloaded it.
How To:
1) Install the application: Link (http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/webhttrack/)
2) This places two items in your Extras folder. One to 'capture' websites - and one to display them.
3) Use the 'Capture' application (Named: "WebHTTrack Website Copier" and follow the very easy to use wizard that takes you through step by step how to capture your site(s). It can be customized very well as well so that you more accurately capture what you are interested in by using a number of filters before you initiate the download. All pretty easy.
4) Launch the off-line browser app (Named: "Browse Mirrored Websites" and - voila - there's the site, looking and working as if you were online.
If you need to refresh it you can use the download tool later to update any links that have changed since you downloaded them.
Brilliant little app and one I am thrilled I found - and maybe someone else here can find some use for it as well if they didn't know about it.
"Darn, wish I could get on the internet right now to check the bus schedule site, airline information site, etc, etc"?
If all you need is one or two web pages you can simply save those as files through microB - but what if you need/want access to an entire site with all the underlying links, etc when you are away from wifi connection?
Solution: Webhttrack (http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/webhttrack/)
And you can download entire sites (including it's functionality, images, links, etc) - to use on your NIT wherever you go.
It's even easy to 'refresh it' to catch any changes that have happened since the last time you downloaded it.
How To:
1) Install the application: Link (http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/webhttrack/)
2) This places two items in your Extras folder. One to 'capture' websites - and one to display them.
3) Use the 'Capture' application (Named: "WebHTTrack Website Copier" and follow the very easy to use wizard that takes you through step by step how to capture your site(s). It can be customized very well as well so that you more accurately capture what you are interested in by using a number of filters before you initiate the download. All pretty easy.
4) Launch the off-line browser app (Named: "Browse Mirrored Websites" and - voila - there's the site, looking and working as if you were online.
If you need to refresh it you can use the download tool later to update any links that have changed since you downloaded them.
Brilliant little app and one I am thrilled I found - and maybe someone else here can find some use for it as well if they didn't know about it.