"Offline" Web Browser??

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Jonathan Wolgamuth

I have used hamster/Xnews and Gravity to read news offline. However,
many times while reading these newsgroups, posts refer to a webpage of
interest. I don't want to have to connect just to read that one page,
because I might find another link 10 minutes later and have to
reconnect.

Is there some way (a freeware solution) that would enable me to save
several links while reading offline, and then later go online to view
them all at once?

I was thinking something like a Yankee Clipper clipboard extender, but
that seems to be a clunky solution...

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Jonathan

"Kids are great Apu! You can teach them to hate the things you hate, and
they practically raise themselves with the internet and all!"

H.S.
 
I have used hamster/Xnews and Gravity to read news offline. However,
many times while reading these newsgroups, posts refer to a webpage of
interest. I don't want to have to connect just to read that one page,
because I might find another link 10 minutes later and have to
reconnect.

Is there some way (a freeware solution) that would enable me to save
several links while reading offline, and then later go online to view
them all at once?
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I use Visit URL (http://www.lodz.pdi.net/~eristic/free/index.html)

Provided it is running (I have it load on Windows startup) and you
have it set to monitor the clipboard, then anytime you "copy" a URL it
loads it into its own store and you can then recall and click on any
of those URLs to take you straight to the site.

You can store unlimited numbers of URLs, add descriptions, sort into
various orders, include mail addresses, ftp addresses etc.
 
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I use Visit URL (http://www.lodz.pdi.net/~eristic/free/index.html)

Provided it is running (I have it load on Windows startup) and you
have it set to monitor the clipboard, then anytime you "copy" a URL it
loads it into its own store and you can then recall and click on any
of those URLs to take you straight to the site.

You can store unlimited numbers of URLs, add descriptions, sort into
various orders, include mail addresses, ftp addresses etc.
Click to expand...

The site you listed redirects here (http://www.tranglos.com/index.html)
where I found "Visit URL". Sounds like just what I was looking for!

Thanks!
--

Jonathan

"Kids are great Apu! You can teach them to hate the things you hate, and
they practically raise themselves with the internet and all!"

H.S.
 
[...]
I use Visit URL (http://www.lodz.pdi.net/~eristic/free/index.html)

Provided it is running (I have it load on Windows startup) and you
have it set to monitor the clipboard, then anytime you "copy" a URL it
loads it into its own store and you can then recall and click on any
of those URLs to take you straight to the site.

You can store unlimited numbers of URLs, add descriptions, sort into
various orders, include mail addresses, ftp addresses etc.
Click to expand...

The site you listed redirects here (http://www.tranglos.com/index.html)
where I found "Visit URL". Sounds like just what I was looking for!

Thanks!
Click to expand...

Mmmm, my version was 1.72 and I see it is now up to 1.74, but doesn't
seem to have changed much.

This from the new web site where "Release History" explains the change
of location

"30 November
Updated web site URLs and contact info in documentation. (The website
is gradually moving to a new domain at www.tranglos.com.) "
 
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:34:09 -0500, Jonathan Wolgamuth

Is there some way (a freeware solution) that would enable me to save
several links while reading offline, and then later go online to view
them all at once?
Click to expand...

If you collect them in a list then the URLs will be "out of context".
One often discusses a URL in a post. A separate list means that you
need to lose that info or go look and look for it again.

IMO "in context" is better. What I used to do is mark every post
"read" unless it had a URL I wanted to check out. Then, when I had
finished with a newsgroup I displayed ONLY those "unread" posts.
Containing only unchecked URLS.

Then one has all the URL posts together for online checking, and
"in context" reading of comments.

Regards, John.

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6lr0fz402 said:
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 22:34:09 -0500, Jonathan Wolgamuth



If you collect them in a list then the URLs will be "out of context".
One often discusses a URL in a post. A separate list means that you
need to lose that info or go look and look for it again.

IMO "in context" is better. What I used to do is mark every post
"read" unless it had a URL I wanted to check out. Then, when I had
finished with a newsgroup I displayed ONLY those "unread" posts.
Containing only unchecked URLS.

Then one has all the URL posts together for online checking, and
"in context" reading of comments.
Click to expand...

John, your way of doing it makes a lot of sense, and has been borne out
when I tried VisitURL. Most of the time the thread goes off from the
url, and I have no idea what they're talking about.

Just another hairbrained idea of mine. ;-)
--

Jonathan

"Kids are great Apu! You can teach them to hate the things you hate, and
they practically raise themselves with the internet and all!"

H.S.
 
Jonathan Wolgamuth said:
I have used hamster/Xnews and Gravity to read news offline. However,
many times while reading these newsgroups, posts refer to a webpage of
interest. I don't want to have to connect just to read that one page,
because I might find another link 10 minutes later and have to
reconnect.

Is there some way (a freeware solution) that would enable me to save
several links while reading offline, and then later go online to view
them all at once?

I was thinking something like a Yankee Clipper clipboard extender, but
that seems to be a clunky solution...
Click to expand...


Have a look at:

NET OPENER

Enter up to 20 URLs and NetOpener will open them in your browser.

http://download.com.com/3001-2366-10126486.html

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