| GUI:   Features: Ease of use: Value: |  | This is so weird.
I needed to mirror a Web site, and so I search for software that does that. I find HTTrack. I figure I'll read the two existing reviews to make sure I'm not downloading a complete lemon, and I'm the only one who has left a review!
It's like that Twilight Zone episode where that guy is all alone in the city. Am I the only one alive? The HTTrack author must be because the version has incremented. Could it be just me and him? I haven't been outside in a while. Maybe nobody is left!
Well, regardless, I just used HTTrack to mirror a Web site. Some educational site that had information, almost like a book but in HTML format, about UNIX file-systems as it relates to disk administration. And No, I am not a geek. Anyways, HTTrack went and mirrored that portion of that site successfully, quickly, and easily on my hard-drive. Configuration of HTTrack was simple. I perused the copied site and everything seems to be in order.
Why can't more software be like HTTrack? Software that just works, as advertised, without crashing, without weird interface issues, or spyware, or politics, at the astounding price of free.
I know. You all thought I'd died, or stopped computing entirely to lead a pastoral existence devoid of all technology. I wish. No, Its worse than ever. I just moved over to Linux after I was disgusted with Vista where almost all of the software is "free." It's no heaven, but at least we aren't paying for our pain. |
|
| | GUI: Features: Ease of use: Value: | | "Best," not "fest."
What is up with this perpetual "βeta" status? HTTrack is the easily the best freeware off-line browser/Web-site copier around. If this software deserves to be in βeta status because it isn't quite releasable to the public for general use then:
A) Too late. Its been released for general use for years now. Set that alarm-clock. "Brrrringgg" goes the alarm. Time to set this to NOT βeta status.
B) 99% of commercial payware applications should be in Alpha status. |
|
| | GUI: Features: Ease of use: Value: | | HTTrack is one of the few Web site downloaders that is feature-rich, flexible, and doesn't crash constantly. Undoubtedly HTTrack is the fest freeware application of this type.
There are better, but the ones I've tried that can best HTTrack cost a small fortune. |
|
