For those of us who are still offline sometimes and want access to at least some web content and running a Windows machine , Santa Clara based Webaroo will be a useful service.

Webaroo indexes the "highest quality" websites for content and creates topic based web packs for download. The content in those webpacks is stored offline on your computer and gets updated periodically. This application when installed it uses 5 MB disk space. You can also ask Webaroo to index specific websites for offline viewing.


For testing I added Infosrama. Then I unplugged from the net and tried it out. The webpacks were great, allowing me to search or browse content. I would love this on a plane. The specific website index didn’t work out so well - all formatting and CSS was stripped from the page and the site looked horrible. Still, the content was there.

Webaroo also allowed me to choose to index the content linked to from the site, so links from Infosrama were also viewable. It is a Great feature.

Webaroo is also available for mobile devices running the Windows Pocket PC operating system. And they announced their first deal with a PC manufacturer, Acer, to pre install Webaroo on new Acer laptops.
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