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Mar. 2007 Giveaway/Discounts: Website Watcher,Local Website Archive,AM-Notebook

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Lashiec:
AM-Notebook?! Crap! I need to donate NOW (if I only had money...)

urlwolf:
Trying to figure out what LWA does...

I'd normally do:
wget --convert-links -r http://www.anysite.org/
and the maybe search it using and indexer, such as X 1 (thanks wordzilla!).

Is LWA giving you any extra capabilities? Which ones?

urlwolf:
Here is a way to backup locally all your delicious bookmarks (change username to yours):
wget -H -r --level=1 -k -p -erobots=off -np -N --exclude-directories=urlwolf --exclude-domains= delicious.com,doubleclick.net http://delicious.com/urlwolf?setcount=100?page=1 http://delicious.com/urlwolf?setcount=100?page=2 http://delicious.com/urlwolf?setcount=100?page=3 http://delicious.com/urlwolf?setcount=100?page=4 http://delicious.com/urlwolf?setcount=100?page=5

You may have more/less pages. wget can be run at timed intervals so you have always the latest versions. keeping numbered versions + comparing them using a visual diff program may do kind of like what WSW does, but a bit clumpsy.

tinjaw:
I'm not going to provide a better description of LWA then the developer does on his own site, but I can tell you my number one use for it.

I often teach informal classes as "brown bag lunches". I spend some time before the class surfing websites that I frequent on the topic. I store those using LWA. Then create a zip file with the runtime LWA and the LWA database I just created. I use that on my laptop during my class, since there is no internet connection at that time. I then pass around a USB stick with the zip file to anybody who wants it. This has met with much success and I plan on doing it for other presentations I give.

As a side note, there are a few (D)(X)HTML-based PowerPoint "replacements" available out around the Net. I am planning on creating my presentions using one of those tools and then combining my lecture slides with the archived web pages in a single zip file.

patthecat:
Any advantage of using LWA over other offline browsers such as WinHTTrack/HTTrack.  I see that HTTrack can include/exclude certain portions of a site but I'm not sure if LWA can do this.  HTTrack also has incomplete support for flash sites according to its FAQ.

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