Tired of waiting till 5pm everyday waiting for the net connection to resume, I started looking for a way to download entire websites to my laptop and browse them later at my discretion. During this search I stumbled upon a gem of a program called HTTrack (http://www.httrack.com) which allows me to do exactly this. I can now just enter the name of a website and click Download to save the whole website including external images, javascript, flash and all that jazz. It even works flawlessly with dynamic server side websites. The description on its website is as follows.

HTTrack allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site’s relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the “mirrored” website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

Best of all, its licensed under GPL, meaning it’s FREE!