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Download an entire website for reading it offline later

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We are so much used to the internet these days, that we feel disconnected when we ever happen to spend some without an internet connection. This situation may arise many times in our lives and there might be many different reasons for this situation, the internet may not work sometimes, there might be an issue from the service provider, or we may be out of the internet coverage area sometimes. But how would you feel if you can be able to access a website offline? Sounds great right!!!!

Making your offline time spent with a website that you like and being entertained is a very nice thing. You can make your flight journey’s entertaining by downloading your favourite website offline. So, let us now learn how to do this.

WebCopy (Windows):

If you are more of a big screen person, then this program for Windows PCs and laptops is just the right thing that you can choose. This program scans for links, pages, and other media in a website discovering the whole website. Then you can customize the configuration options and choose certain parts of the website to make available offline. The one interesting thing about WebCopy is the ability to setup multiple projects which make it easy to redownload many websites.

After downloading and installing the application, when you launch it, just navigate using File>New for creating a new project, then type the URL of the website that you wish to save offline, and customize the save folder field with the location where you want it to be saved, then navigate to file>save as to save the project, then click the option copy website in the toolbar to start the process.

But most of us rely on Android devices for surfing the internet, so let us take a look at downloading web pages in Android devices.

HTTrack:  

This is very much known than the earlier program. This program is available for Android, Linux, Windows platforms. All you need to do is just enter the URL of the website that you wish to download, nd click on next a few times. Then it will start saving the website and will take some time.

Google searches now get queued when you are offline

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Google the most popular search engine has recently introduced a new update that allows the users to queue up the searches even when they are offline. Google search app has been the most popular search choice for searching the internet for the android users as it is available by default with almost all the android phones.

If the users search for something on the internet and there is no internet connection, then Google automatically saves the searches in the pending option. It is very useful for the users who are in the areas with very slow internet connection or with no internet at all.

The searches done at the time of absence of the internet will be automatically queued by Google and it will present the users the results when the internet is available. The Google search app works in the background and searches for the things you want to find as soon as it gets access to the internet and delivers results to the user.

So, the app will now let you queue your searches when you are offline.

All you need to do to avail this feature is just update your Google search app to the latest version. This feature is currently available to android users only.

This feature doesn’t drain your battery and don’t be worried about that.

Google Chrome extensions that work offline and you must try

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Without internet, you may feel somewhat bored and when you can’t be able to do anything, but if you are a chrome user then it will be easy for you to carry some important tasks without even having an internet connection. All these can be done if you have some of the best offline extensions that work even without any internet connection. So here I am going to introduce you to some of the best Google chrome extensions that work offline in this piece of article.

My Cats New Tab:

This extension is for some fun and refreshment where it changes the wall papers in the new tab, even when you are offline and it also has a to do list and music playlist, and weather info.

Storing, viewing and editing documents:

Install drive chrome extension if you wish to view and edit your files, and documents that you save in any of your cloud storages like Google Drive, One Drive, box, Dropbox. It gives you offline access to your files and documents and allows you to save and edit them even without any internet connection.

Managing PDFs:

You can use this most popular chrome extension for editing, saving and splitting, merging and annotating PDFs and to converting had written text into optical character recognition.

Word count tool:

If your text editor doesn’t include a word counter in it, then you need to have this extension. This displays a fly-out box with the word count, character count and the number of unique words and other such information.

Timer:

If you are in search of a simple timer that gives you the basic features like setting the timer, starting it and stopping it, then you must have this extension which gives you all you need.

Relaxing sounds:

You can use this chrome extension that has the offline support to listen to some soothing sounds of nature while you work.

Gmail Offline:

Gmail seems to be the only application that offers you access to the inbox while you are offline. This Gmail offline extension will allow you to view your emails and reply to those mails, forward them while you are offline and they will sent when you are connected to the internet.

So I hope you find these chrome extensions that can be used offline useful to you and get them added to your chrome browser.