Rating: 5
Version tested: 2.0.2
Description: Local Website Archive Lite is a program that can take quick snapshots of individual web pages and store them locally on your hard drive. It is intended to provide quick access to information that a user finds on the internet and stores it locally for quick off-line access.
In order to determine what to write on Freewaregenius, I do a lot of research over the internet. I look at a lot of websites, blogs, etc. and often when I find something interesting I need to quickly take a snapshot of a page or article and move on, until a latter time when I can actually sit down to write a posting. Storing the website and/or information locally means that I do not have to do the work of locating the information or webpage twice; it’s also important because much of what I write actually takes place on the bus to and back from work, and in cafes on my lunch break, where internet connectivity is often not available. In these situations, having the research that I need stored on my hard drive is simply a lifesaver.
Local Website Archiver does exactly that. It downloads most of the elements of a normal webpage including layout, text, and images. It does not load multimedia objects such as flash animations, videos, etc. Here are some notes on this program:
- Browser integration: will integrate itself as a button within your browser’s toolbar, as an entry in the browser’s context menu, or as a handy shortcut within the quick launch tray.
- Source URL: Keeps a record of the original URL whence the page was captured (as well as the date of capture).
- Search: offers a powerful search functionality. You can search within a page, within a folder, within a selected folder recursively, or within all folders.
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