#Title#=WebWhacker
#Designation#=resources.software.development.html.webwhacker
#Date#=April 03 1996
#Author#=Robert Cass
#Text#=Title: 	WebWhacker
Medium: Hypertext
Capabilities: 	Allows you to localize the contents of a web page.
Pros:	Easy to use and very thorough. Will save most content.
Cons:	Thoroughness is not always a good thing. Unless you have a 
	huge disk drive. 
Minimum Requirements:

System Requirements for Windows 95 & Windows 3.1

     Windows 95/3.1 
     4 MB RAM. Additional memory will make WebWhacker run faster. 
     10 MB disk space or more. Since WebWhacker stores HTML files and images from the Web, the disk space
     required is determined by the number and size of the images and files you Whack. 
     Active connection to the Internet with a Winsock-compliant network product. 
     Any Web browser that supports the SpyGlass SDI standard (includes Netscape Navigator (TM) version 1.1b3 or
     later and Enhanced Mosaic 2.0) can be used to view local files from WebWhacker. These browsers also enable
     retrieval of current page information when "grabbing" URLs to Whack. Since WebWhacker makes independent
     network connections to desired pages (sites), a Web browser is not necessary for WebWhacker "Whacking", but is
     only needed for viewing the resulting groups of local files. 

Associated Hardware: None
Associated Software: None

Description:With WebWhacker educators can capture groups of pages from the World Wide Web for later use on a classroom
computer that does not have Internet access. Webwhacker allows students to fully simulate real-time web
browsing. WebWhacker also eliminates the connection time and costs for on-line browsing, allows browsing at a
quicker pace determined by the speed of the classroom computer rather than the Internet connection, and enables
teachers to select Internet content that is appropriate for students. 

Recommendations: This is a good product for downloading full multi-media lessons from the web and
controlling content.
	The demo works fine, but you need to get the full version or it will expire fairly quickly.
In terms of obvious functionality though it cannot compete with Grab-A-Site form Blue Squirrel.
Watch out for the size of the downloads. Not being able to control this is a big limitation. Also
if you do not have a good connection, downloading a sites worth of multi-media clips will take 
all your hours up on your network provider. 

Where to get it: Because it is proprietary software, you have to download it at the source:
http://www.ffg.com/whacker.html

Sample uses: See the Stringteachers Pedagogy Notebook