Apple Mac Downloads
Sydney Morning Herald
Saturday March 4, 2000
PageSucker
From: www.pagesucker.com
Price: $US10 ($14.50)
This cool little program "sucks" down entire Web sites and stores them on your computer's hard disk, so you can explore at your leisure (and at high speed) without spending costly time online. It's as simple as it is useful and will quickly become a vital part of your Net surfing tool kit.
Your browser probably already allows you to browse offline, but you can only look at one page of a site in this mode - try following a link and your modem will try to connect you back to the Internet. PageSucker solves this problem by downloading the site's home page and as many layers of links as you specify. Simply type in the site address in the "Base URL" box then select the "Max Recursion Depth" (geek speak for the number of levels of links you want the program to download). If you're pickier, you can play with a host of other settings that instruct PageSucker to download only some parts of the site.
Click "Start Download" and PageSucker will suck down every part of the Web site into a folder you specify.
To surf the site offline, open your Web browser, select Open File from the drop-down File menu and click on a file called "Index.html", which calls up the home page.
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