Cache Your News, If You Can
Are you one of those people poring over a laptop instead of a newspaper while on the train or ferry, or at the airport or coffee shop? Unless you pay through the nose for a wireless connection, you're probably not online. But with a little effort, you can have your browser automatically preload your favorite news sites for you so that they're available during your commute.
To use Internet Explorer 6 to cache a Web site for offline reading, first browse to the site, choose Favorites, Add to Favorites, check Make available offline, and click Customize to open the Offline Favorite Wizard. Click Next to start moving through the wizard. Select Yes if you wish to download pages linked to the site's main page (or No if you're happy just to read the headlines), tell the wizard how many levels deep you wish to cache links (I recommend just one level deep for starters), and then click Next. Select I would like to create a new schedule, and click Next again. Choose a frequency and time to perform the Web synchronization (see FIGURE 2 ). You can also set the synchronization to connect automatically when you next go online (if you happen to be offline at the preset time) and to enter a user name and password. Click Finish when you've made your choices.
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