Is Offline Web Browsing better than RSS Reader?
Remember the old days, before the RSS/Blogging time, we relied on the Offline Web contents reading using Avantgo, Mobile Favorites, etc.
I have been using a number of RSS Readers on my mobile device. As you know, RSS reader is limited by the RSS feeds offered by the web site and often RSS feeds don’t present the whole contents (Solsie.com RSS Feed do offer the whole contents).
Today, after a brief chat with Vicott from Mobile-SG; I wanted to test again Sunnysoft World-Offline. SWO is a tool that allows you to cache any Website to read offline. Unlike RSS reader SWO actually caches the whole Web sites, images and level of depth you choose.
When you launch your SWO channel, you actually use PIE to read offline; tapping on the links will take you to get you to another locations (already cached), so, even offline, it give you similar online browsing experience in faster speed. SWO also reformats the Web site if it is not yet ”Mobile optimized”.
The difference is clear, RSS readers are 2-D browsing while Offline Browsing provides a true 3-D browsing experience.
The beautiful thing is SWO can read your favorite RSS feeds too. Thanks to Vicott, you can use the little online script to convert your RSS Feed into HTML link for SWO. Just provide the RSS feed and click on Convert RSS button; copy the URL:http://….on your browser window and enter to SWO as new channel.
There are free utilities allowing to convert PDF to html. So you can use SWO to read PDF files too.
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