REVIEWS & AWARDS - Offline Explorer Pro
 6/17/2008 |
To save time, take it offline
By SCOTT A. MAY Every year we come closer to living in a virtual world. From education to employment, it seems like nearly every aspect of our daily lives requires that we be connected to the Internet. Like any dependent technology, it’s only a bad thing if we allow it to be. For many people, surfing the Web has become their main source of news, entertainment and, sad to say, social interaction. They spend all their leisure time online, either tethered to their desktops or free-roaming and wireless. Others view the Web more as a tool and would rather grab and go - getting more but surfing less. For these people, offline browsing is the ultimate solution. Offline browsing basically means downloading Web pages to your hard drive - including text, pictures and links - to be viewed at your convenience. Although any Web browser worth owning will let you save and view sites’ content offline, doing so easily and completely requires special software. One of the best I’ve used is called Offline Explorer from MetaProducts, available in four unique editions: Standard, Professional, Enterprise and Portable. Each product lets you download your favorite Internet sites - Web, FTP, HTTPS, MMS, PNM and RTSP - for later offline viewing or editing. The reasons for viewing sites offline are many. For those forced to use a dial-up Internet connection, offline viewing keeps your phone line free. Whether you use dial-up or DSL, speed is another huge factor. Offline Explorer lets you download as many as 500 files simultaneously, during off-peak hours, when the connection is fastest. Even if you have a cable connection, viewing files from your hard drive is much faster than off the Internet. Offline browsing also can be much more convenient and reliable than a live connection. Notebook users without a ready connection also can download their favorite sites for viewing any time, any place. For one reason or another, Web sites can go down, change their content or disappear entirely - making valuable information completely unavailable, unless you’ve downloaded it to your hard drive. Unlike standard browsers, Offline Explorer can even download audio and video directly to your hard drive for later use. This can be especially helpful for those with a slow connection, which causes streaming video to constantly stop and sputter. Stored on your hard drive, multimedia content runs seamlessly. Offline Explorer also lets you export and share downloaded site content with others who might not have an Internet connection at all. You can even burn downloaded Web sites to CD, creating auto-run disks that automatically pop up when inserted into any CD-ROM drive. The host computer doesn’t need to have Offline Explorer installed, and it works perfectly with any Windows, Mac or Linux computer. One of my favorite Offline Explorer features is its ability to schedule Web site monitoring, in which the program goes online to check any specified sites for changed information, automatically downloading and updating your offline files. This can be especially handy for dial-up users, automatically connecting, monitoring for changed content, downloading when necessary, hanging up and even shutting down the computer when finished. There’s a lot more to Offline Explorer than I can possibly mention here. Check out MetaProducts’ site, www.metaproducts.com, for a complete list of its myriad features and download a free, fully functional copy to see for yourself. The program is compatible with all versions of Windows, from Win95 to Vista. If you decide to keep it, the standard edition costs $49.95, and the more feature-rich Professional version lists for $89.95. Network and power users will want to check out the Enterprise edition, available for $499.95, and those on the go will love the handy Portable version - which requires no installation and runs entirely off a flash drive - for $89.95. All prices are for single-user licenses, with volume discounts available. http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2008/jun/20080617busi009.asp |
 4/21/2007 |
Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with 5 stars by BestVistaDownloads.com Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with 5 stars by Best Vista Downloads! http://www.bestvistadownloads.com/software/t-free-offline-explorer-pro-download-txqrhtgw.html |
 4/10/2007 |
Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with 5 stars by BestShareware.net! Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with 5 stars by BestShareware.net! |
 4/10/2007 |
Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with 4 stars by FiveSign.com! Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with 4 stars by FiveSign.com! http://www.fivesign.com/downloads/program/Offline-Explorer-Pro_32058_67.html |
 10/24/2006 |
Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with 5 stars by BestSoftware4Download.com! Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with 5 stars by BestSoftware4Download.com! http://www.bestsoftware4download.com/software/t-free-offline-explorer-pro-download-embjjsvf.html |
 10/20/2006 |
Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with the Clean & Safe award by DownloadSofts.com! DownloadSofts.com Team: They found "Offline Explorer Pro 4.3 SR1" clean of adware/spyware and they qualified it as "100% Clean and Safe to install". Accordingly to the tests results made by our team, we grant your product with "Clean & Safe" DownloadSofts Award." |
 9/8/2006 |
Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with Grade 5 by Vista-Files.org! Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with Grade 5 by Vista-Files.org! http://www.vista-files.org/programs/metaproducts-corporation/offline-explorer-pro.html |
 3/21/2006 |
Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with 5 stars by KingDownloads.com! Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with 5 stars by KingDownloads.com! http://www.kingdownloads.com/Internet/Browsers/Offline_Explorer_Pro_7171.htm |
 1/20/2006 |
Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded by SoftsLand.com with 5 Stars Award Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with 5 stars by SoftsLand.com! |
 1/20/2006 |
Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded by MaxxDownload.com with 5 Stars Award Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with 5 stars by MaxxDownload.com! |
 1/20/2006 |
Offline Explorer Pro is rated with 5 stars on BestShareware network! Offline Explorer Pro is rated with 5 stars on BestShareware network! |
 1/20/2006 |
Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded by Shareware-List.com with 5 Stars Award Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded with 5 stars by Shareware-list.com! |
 12/17/2005 |
Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded by Ivertech Software Central with 5 Stars Award Offline Explorer Pro 4.0 Build 2272 has been awarded with 5 stars by Software.Ivertech.com! http://software.ivertech.com/OfflineExplorerPro_software19434.htm |
 12/17/2005 |
Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded by Soft3K.com with 5 Stars Award Offline Explorer Pro 4.0 has been awarded with 5 stars by Soft3K.com! |
 11/14/2005 |
Offline Explorer Pro has received 5 Stars Award on PickFiles.com Offline Explorer Pro has been listed and awarded on Pick Files - http://www.pickfiles.com |
| 6/24/2005 |
Infopackets review of Offline Explorer Pro Synopsis: What`s the best way to archive your favorite web pages and web media permanently? Answer: MetaProducts Offline Explorer! Using a clear, intuitive and convenient user interface, Offline Explorer downloads Web and FTP sites (up to 500 simultaneously!) at the highest possible speed so you can browse, search, export to CD or perform other operations on downloaded sites. Among its many awards, Offline Explorer is a ZDNet.com 5-star winner! Read full review: |
 5/1/2005 |
Download.com Review of Offline Explorer Pro This full-fledged offline browser not only copies individual Web pages and online photo albums, it also downloads and lets you view entire sites offline. Its customizable interface lets you easily cope with numerous downloads. With the built-in browser, you can view retrieved sites or search for new targets directly from the program. Offline Explorer Pro provides everything for easy downloading: proxy-server support; connection control (a number of simultaneous connections, bandwidth limitations); an internal dial-up that disconnects when finished or resumes broken connections; scheduling; and smart Web-browser integration. Various filters cut unnecessary content, letting you skip or include file types, sizes, URLs, servers, domains, and directories. You also can retrieve only updated files, disable downloading or directories from a convenient site map, or simply drag missing pages from your browser. Offline Explorer Pro has most of the features we expect from a perfect offline browser, especially for dial-up users. http://www.download.com/Offline-Explorer-Pro/3000-2377_4-10047647.html |
 6/24/2004 |
EuroShareStar.com 5 Stars award Offline Explorer Pro has received 5 Stars award at EuroShareStar.com! |
 1/15/2004 |
Promaxum Seal of Quality Certificate Offline Explorer Pro has received the Promaxum Seal of Quality Certificate! This certificate confirms that Offline Explorer Pro has passed the Promaxum Seal of Quality review process. By receiving this certificate, Offline Explorer Pro has adhered to the highest possible standards set forth by the Promaxum review staff. http://www.promaxum.com/certificate/seal.php?award=offline_explorer_pro |
| 8/27/2003 |
Offline Explorer Pro featured at Easycab.com MetaProduct Offline Explorer Pro was chosen from new applications to be in the daily feature on the Easycab.com main page.
http://www.easycab.com/cgibin/tenview.cgi?New&Application(s)=Offline&Explorer&Pro |
 8/5/2003 |
Offline Explorer Pro Offline Explorer Pro has received a 4.5 Star Rating at Download2you.com! |
 2/20/2003 |
Offline Explorer Pro reviewed by Dr. File Finder Author: Michael E. Callahan Offline Explorer Pro, by MetaProducts Corporation, is a handy tool for downloading all of your favorite Web sites. And when I say Web sites, I don`t just mean HTML pages. This baby can handle downloading MMS, FTP, HTTPS, and RTSP pages too! And it`s perfect for "grabbing" things that you want to browse later. Or save for later. And, if you wish you can also edit the pages you save. And what really impressed me is that you can do up to 500 sites at one time!!! Very slick. And it`s impressive just how fast Offline Explorer Pro is. I feel the user interface is quite intuitive and very easy-to-use, which makes it perfect for both new and experienced users. Offline Explorer Pro gives you lots of options and lots of power to get the job done. You can have URL macros, a specific download directory, and even a display of the files awaiting download. And you also have the flexibility to exclude, or include, specific files, folders, and servers. You can do this strictly through the use of keywords! And the program handles anything that you throw at it because it supports all of the most common and popular "standards." It supports, for example, Macromedia Flash, cascading style sheets, Adobe Acrobat, XML, table of contents, RealMedia, and lots more. And that means that when go to browse Web pages you`ve downloaded, you get to see it all! Very nicely done! Offline Explorer Pro, by MetaProducts Corporation, is a perfect tool for downloading Web pages for later use. The interface is user-friendly and intuitive. And it provides support for a dazzling array of standards currently in use on the Internet. The program is extremely fast, and gives you a range of configurable options. So, if you`ve been looking for a way to download Web pages so you can look at them later, this may be just what you`ve been looking for. I`ve looked at a number of similar programs, and this is the best I`ve seen. Take a good look for yourself! I recommend it! |
| 12/14/2002 |
Offline Explorer Pro Reviewed by ListSoft Award: ListSoft`s CHOICE |
 1/4/2002 |
Offline Explorer Pro - Title of the Month for January 2002 at Networkingfiles.com Congratulations!!! We have selected your program Offline Explorer Pro as our Internet Tools Title of the Month for January 2002 at Networkingfiles.com. Your title will be the first title in the Internet Tools directory throughout the month. Your awarded title will also receive a premier listing with a large portion of the page shown being your award. We have reviewed, tested and fully researched your program and have wrote a review which can be found at your award url.
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 5/11/2001 |
Tucows.com Reviews Offline Explorer Pro v1.7 Welcome to the world of Site Ripping? That`s Right! Offline browsing is at your fingertips. Offline Explorer Pro is a offline browser program that allows all of you users out there to download your favorite Web sites for later viewing or editing. Is this golden or what? To help you out, MetaProducts has embedded an easy wizard to make site ripping easy and quick. Within seconds you`ve learned the basics of downloading an entire site. You can download the site by level, making this even more precious. If you only want a few pages to look at, you can set it up this way. Now, here`s the cool part...once you`ve ripped the site, Offline Explorer Pro will go back and grab only the modified material. Teamed with a macros and automation program, a connection to the Internet, and this program, you could be up to date on a constantly changing website, with a connection time of maybe 15 minutes, depending on what you rip. Enjoy this one, I`m already loving it.
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 10/28/2000 |
Offline Explorer Pro has been awarded a 5 star rating at A1 Yippee Shareware Offline Explorer is the next generation of offline browser. It combines flexibility, power and ease of use in a tightly-coded package.
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 10/18/2000 |
Be One of the First to Rate This Title! Offline Explorer Pro is a powerful system for downloading Web, FTP, and HTTPS sites for offline viewing and other purposes. This well-designed, accessible system offers precise selection criteria, support for current Web technologies, and convenient viewing. Neatly accessible project properties allow you to view and edit file and URL filters as well as access advanced features, including link translations, scheduling, passwords, and the ability to keep old files when updating a site. Extensive options let you tailor the selection of data and its treatment, including the use of keywords. Features include templates, employing up to 100 simultaneous downloads, defining projects with multiple URLs, a built-in browser, and URL macros. The program also supports cookies, Macromedia Flash, JavaScript, Java Classes, Cascading Style Sheets, Table of Contents files, and different proxy servers. Its integrated HTTP server even lets you share captured files. |
