Webaroo Releases Version 1.3 – A Huge Step Up

Webaroo blog has reported today that the company releases version 1.3 of its product that has already been covered on Profy quite recently. The company gives users an opportunity to surf the web even without Internet connection and in my recent post I mentioned that it had raised quite a significant amount of investments for further development of their product. It looks like they have lots of things in mind judging by today’s release of this new version of their software.

The software is used to download and use “Web Packs” offline.  In addition to downloading free Web Packs from Webaroo collection the software enables you to add your favorite websites and blogs as well. This way you create your own offline copy of your personal WWW – to take it with you to a business trip, vacation or to the nearest coffee house. Every time that you are back online, the Webaroo software will update your collection of websites for you – to use again when you are offline.

The new version of Webaroo software supports Windows Mobile 5.0 devices. Developers say they have also improved usability of the application. Webaroo has also changed the look and feel of its website. I can say that it has really become much more pleasant and the home page today contains more information, including some featured “Web Packs” and the most popular packs as well.

But actually the feature that drew my attention and made me write a new post about Webaroo – after less than a month after the previous one – is their new widgets to “mobilize” various websites - including blogs, of course, which is of particular interest to Profy. I even think Webaroo widget is a must for some websites – especially when you know that your readers use their laptops and smartphones offline frequently.

To create a Mobilize Button for your own website you simply need to:

1. Edit some options (e.g. choose if only the home page will be downloaded for the pack or a certain number of secondary pages with the maximum depth of 100 pages, and choose update mode – manual or automatically daily);

2. Choose the appearance of the button you want to place on your website;

3. Copy the HTML code provided to your website.

And you are done: you can now provide your visitors with the opportunity to browse your website offline. Whenever they need to.

Sure, for some people surrounded by Internet everywhere this might not sound particularly interesting (including me with Wi-Fi reaching even to my toilet at home). But I remember my dial-up times writing my graduation paper in university and saving literally hundreds of web pages daily within an hour or two to read them thoroughly offline. I definitely needed Webaroo then. And I really think Webaroo is one of the most useful solutions I’ve seen lately.