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Sometimes you need to access your favorite sites even when there is no Internet. Safari certainly not bad for web surfing, but, unfortunately, it does not know how to save websites on the device. The absence of such a function leads to the need to use various third-party solutions, such as Offline Pages.
Price: 169 rub. Download Version Pro: 329 rub.
For iPhone: yes
For iPad: yes
Language: Russian
Developer/Publisher: Codium Labs LLC.
Offline Pages in essence it is the same browser as many others. But its functionality can be divided into two components:
Web surfing in the browser itself Offline Pages And saving the sites you view in it. It is worth noting that there is a version Offline Pages Pro , which is much more expensive than the standard version, but it can do much more. For example, Pro The version allows you to save not only individual pages, but also entire multi-page sites, with their structure and links. Simply put, after saving the site in version Pro You will be able to view it in full, without an Internet connection. True, it will look like an archive of the site and you certainly won’t see new materials without access to the Internet.
The second component of browser functionality is bunch OfflinePageswith other browsers . Thus, when installing this option or the so-called. Bookmarklet, it becomes possible to send links to those viewed in Offline Pages pages straight to Safari or Chrome . You can also send links to pages by e-mail or to other social services such as Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Let's take a closer look at the first component - web surfing and saving pages. Everything is very simple: first open in Offline Pages any site.
To subsequently view saved pages, both in offline and online modes, click the button located at the top, to the left of the address bar.
Additional options:
Sync saved pages between your i -devices. To do this, you just need to create an account (you can do this in the program itself). To create an account you need to indicate e-mail and password. In the future, if you open Offline Pages on your other i -device (provided that you are logged in with the same Apple ID ), you will see all your saved pages, which will be loaded automatically via the Cloud;
There is a full screen mode;
You can also create a secret e-mail , to which all your saved links and documents will be sent. This can be done through Settings Offline Pages – General – Setup Secret e-mail.
BunchOfflinePagesWithSafarihappens by analogy with Instapaper . To do this you need to install the so-called. Bookmarklet. The option allows you to directly from Safari send links to articles you view to Offline Pages.
Conclusion:Despite the fact that in some ways Offline Pages resembles “delayed reading”, for example, of such a popular service as Instapaper , main goal this application another. Application, especially version Pro , allows you to completely download sites to the device. Lazy reading services do not have this functionality.
iPad is one of Apple's major technological achievements. A tablet computer for which there is no worthy alternative yet. What makes a device perfect is not only its excellent hardware (excellent IPS screen, battery that lasts 10 hours of video viewing, powerful dual-core processor), but also wonderful software. Very often on forums and social networks you can come across the question “I bought an iPad, what should I install?”. Below you will find useful iPad apps that we recommend. The list is not complete, add your own suggestions.
Reading news
My main use of the iPad is to read the news. There are a little more than enough RSS clients (both traditional and not so traditional) in the Eppstor. And they all look alike. Here's what I chose:
In my opinion, this is the best RSS reader right now. It seamlessly integrates with Google Reader, synchronizes read and unread news, supports almost all the functionality of Google Reader (you can share articles, mark them with a star, etc., but does not allow you to unsubscribe from the RSS feed from your iPad), allows you to save long and especially valuable texts in Instapaper for delayed reading. It is possible to send a link to Delicious, email and other services. Reeder is clear evidence that Google is not very good with user interfaces: when you read news in Reeder, you read 2-3 times more notes compared to reading through the web interface. [Review | Download ($4.99)]
. Flipboard is a colorful magazine for iPad. You indicate your Twitter and Facebook data, the program “sucks up” all the links that your friends/friends/followers publish and forms a damn attractive magazine from these links. Flipboard has grown a lot lately. Publisher “channels” appeared here: the best newspapers in the world provide content in an already formatted form. Google Reader support has appeared: now you can read RSS in the form of a magazine. [Review | Download (free)]
Zite. The ambitious startup has set itself a difficult task: to offer the reader only those articles that are personally interesting to him. Zite closely tracks what you read and like. A lot of parameters are taken into account: the topics you prefer, your activity on social networks. Taking these “signals” into account, Zite “lays out” the magazine for you. If you are a reader of Gizmodo, Engadger, Lifehacker, you have probably noticed that every day blogs write about the same thing. As a result, you have to read one news item several times. Zite actually solved this problem. Minus of Zite - it does not support Russian. [Review | Download (free)]
Everyone faces the problem of lack of time. It happens that in the middle of the working day they send a link to an interesting but long article that you cannot read now. In this case, it is better to add it to the ReadItLater service (you can do this in one click). ReadItLater is not the only such service. Many people use Instapaper. The following points can be attributed in favor of ReadItLater: the presence of a free version (the developer Instapaper removed the free version from App Store), lower cost of the paid version ($2.99 versus $4.99), the ability to save multi-page articles (Instapaper does not do this for fundamental reasons), brighter prospects (ReadItLater received funding and is forming a stellar team of programmers). [ | ($2.99)]
The second most popular pattern of using an iPad is communicating with friends. Everything here is quite simple and predictable:
There is still no official Facebook for iPad app. So the choice comes down to two things. Or use a browser, or one of the unofficial clients. Friendly is one of the most successful applications for active Facebook users. The program offers basic features: reading news feeds, changing status, uploading photos from iPad to a social network, chat. Friendly is available in two versions - paid ($0.99) and free. The latter displays advertising. [ | ]
Twitter. Twitter is a very popular microblogging service and social network. There are many clients created to work with it. The official application sports an interesting interface; third-party developments offer other features. For example, Echofon Pro ($4.99) automatically syncs unread messages between various devices(iPad, iPhone, Mac - you'll never read the same tweet twice).
IMO.im. There are many instant messaging clients. I use different ones, I don’t have any strong preferences. Lately I’ve been launching IMO.im more often. This messenger supports not only MSN, Jabber/GoogleTalk, Skype, Facebook, ICQ, but even the exotic Steam (communication with gamers) and the popular VKontakte in Russia. [Download (free)]
Skype- official client for the Internet telephony service of the same name. Quite limited in possibilities, but we are happy with this. You can now make calls and chat from your iPad. [Review | Download (free)]
Classmates. Odnoklassniki also has an official iPad application. However, it is far from ideal. We can only hope that the developers will develop the program. [Download (free)]
Reading books and magazines
I mainly use the standard Apple e-reader to read books. I both download books (already immediately in epub) and buy them. The Apple iBookstore is not open in Russia yet, so I use American accounts (I top up my account with Gift cards). [Download (free)]
Unfortunately, the iBooks Store library is weaker than Amazon's. Sometimes I buy books there too. The coolest thing is that the book is on your iPad within a minute of purchase. This is how e-books compare favorably with paper books (hello, Russian Post!). [Download (free)]
Zinio. Client to the service of the same name. Allows you to buy/subscribe to glossy magazines. I haven’t used it lately, but I included it in the selection - the service is useful. [Download (free)]
Education
The iPad is great for self-education. I use the following applications:
TED. TED (which stands for Technology Entertainment and Design) is the most prominent example of education, a form of entertainment that seeks to educate and educate. Among the speakers at the TED conference are Nobel laureates, famous politicians, and stars. They talk about common problems, offer their solutions. Many people pay thousands of dollars to listen to TED lectures. However, over time, the videos are posted online for free. The official TED for iPad app offers access to a huge archive. You can even download the video in advance so you can watch it on the go, for example. It's also worth paying attention to the TED+SUB app. This program allows you to watch videos with subtitles.
Star Walk And Solar Walk. The Novosibirsk company VITO Technology is developing electronic “space encyclopedias”. The Star Walk program is a digital planetarium. This is the best astronomy reference book available for iPad. Solar Walk is dedicated to the planets of the solar system. Both programs were completed at a high level. The Novosibirsk residents even won the Apple Design Award for their developments. [Star Walk ($4.99) | Solar Walk ($2.99)]
MoMA AB EX NY. I'm far from art (I'm not at all proud of it), but I downloaded the application. I wanted to see what a program produced by one of the leading museums in the world looks like. MoMA offers access to a small portion of its collection of works by abstract expressionist artists. Photographs of the paintings are given in high resolution. You can “zoom in” by looking at the details. Many paintings are provided with audio commentary by the museum curator. There are several videos that explain the basics of art, drawing techniques, and explain basic terms. [Download (free)]
As a child, we don’t like chemistry, preferring physics. However, if I had such an application then, everything could have turned out differently. The Elements is a reimagined periodic table of the elements. Interactive textbook about chemical elements. Colorful illustrations and a huge amount of valuable information fade somewhat against the background of the fact that there is no Russian language. [Download ($13.99]
You can read Wikipedia, of course, without any applications. But from an aesthetic point of view, Wikipedia articles do not look very good. All these endless footnotes are useful to researchers. And when you just want to read articles from the encyclopedia, they are of little use. Articles turns Wiki into an encyclopedia that's fun to read. The application once won the Apple Design Award, and deservedly so. [Download ($4.99)]
Skeleton System Pro II. The company 3D4Medical produces applications that help better understand the human structure. This company's programs use 3D visualization. As a result, you can examine every organ, every vertebra. [Download ($19.99)]
Job
A simple application for writing texts. The main feature is synchronizing documents between devices using the Dropbox service. Support for the Russian language and its free nature make the program even more attractive. [Download (free)]
iWork. For those who need more text editing capabilities and who need document design tools, it is worth paying attention to the iWork application suite. Numbers, Keynote, and Pages are available on the App Store for $10 per app. [Numbers | Pages | Keynote ]
For iPad/Wunderlist. We cannot ignore the topic of task managers. There are many of them for iPad. The most advanced, in my opinion, is Omnifocus. The main advantage of the application is the Forecast mode, which shows your employment for the coming week. Parting with $40 for a task manager is not easy. As a free alternative, we recommend Wunderlist, which has versions for iPad, iPhone, OS X, Windows and Android (note that it has cloud synchronization). [ ($39.99) | Wunderlist (free)]
Evernote has a pretty good iPad version. You can make text and audio notes, all data is synchronized between different devices. [Download (free)]
Watch video
OPlayer HD. When watching videos on an iPad, things are not entirely simple. If you want to watch a video that is not encoded in H.264, then the files will have to be re-encoded. But there is a second option - use a player on the iPad that understands different file formats and codecs. There are really a lot of players in the App Store that promise to play absolutely everything. Most of them either have a monstrous interface (a real disaster) or lack some important functionality. As a result, if you need to upload a video file with one track and no subtitles to your iPad, then you should pay attention to Azul ($1.99). You won't waste time recoding. If it's important to you to be able to switch between tracks and subtitles on the fly, then OPlayer HD ($4.99) is worth purchasing.
Air Video. If your computer (it doesn’t matter, Mac or PC) is constantly running, then you can stream video from it directly to your iPad. This is convenient because you don’t need to convert the video. Let's say you can watch the new episode of The Big Bang Theory over breakfast. You can organize such a broadcast using Air Video. The program is installed on your computer and iPad. There is a free version. Very convenient application. [Air Video FREE | Air Video]
IMDb for iPad. I love cinema, I rate the films I watch on IMDb, there is also a watchlist - a list of films that I would like to watch. The IMDb app is one of the reasons to love the service. Simple, convenient, functional, free. [
An application is a browser that can save web pages for offline reading. Recently I wanted to save several web pages from a joke site to read them offline in the Vitrum browser at work, but I encountered the fact that when I tried to open these pages, the browser required an Internet connection and did not open the pages...
IN Pro versions of Offline Pages more opportunities. The browser will be able to save multi-page websites, with the ability to follow related links. It will be possible to save HTML5 videos for later viewing offline. Favorite saved pages can be automatically updated online when the application is launched or on a schedule. Web pages can be sorted by tags. There are “smart” filters for downloaded links.
Disadvantage of the application- his huge price(especially for the Pro version). The application also does not support the Russian language. However, our forum member Seryozha Volgin made a Russifier for it (although you need a jail). The browser, alas, does not remember the addresses of previously visited sites, and it does not have bookmark management.
By installing the so-called in the program. ” Bookmarklet”, we will be able to read web pages saved for Offline Pages on other iDevices, MAC or PC.
Saved pages can be opened in Safari (or Chrome). Can be printed. The link to the page can be sent by email or on various social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Instapaper, Tumblr and Pinboard.
The program supports transition to full screen mode(on the tablet there are special buttons for this; on the iPhone/iPod this is set in the settings).
The application has the ability to create a secret postal address, where you can send web pages, links and documents. In the Browser Settings menu “General”->”Setup Secret E-mail”
In the application itself, you can create an account in a couple of moments (you just need to specify Mail and come up with a password) - it is needed so that saved pages are loaded via the Cloud (in one iDevice) to any other your iDevice into the launched Offline Pages.
To save a web page opened in Offline Pages, click the button at the top (to the right of the address bar) of the window -> click “Save Page”:
-> on the left we will see a badge with the number of pages currently being saved (we do not close the application at this moment).
To read (while offline) previously saved pages, click the button to the left of the address bar, select any page and read.
If on your favorite iDevice the Safari browser is the main “window to the world,” then to “link” it with Offline Pages you need to install a script (bookmarklet). And then it will be possible (without leaving Safari) to send interesting articles to the Offline Pages collection.
It's not as difficult as it might seem, you just need to follow a few steps. I'll tell you which ones exactly.
Open Offline Pages, go to “Settings”->”General”->”Setup Bookmarklet”-> the Safari browser will automatically launch on the page:
click Install Bookmarklet:
here we skip unnecessary steps and press right away Next Step:
here we simply save the current page as bookmarks (tap in Safari on the “Arrow” -> tap on the “Bookmark” icon -> without changing anything, click “Save”):
here open the Safari bookmarks, click Change, find the new “Save to Offline...” at the bottom of the list of bookmarks:
and click on the “cross” (i.e., delete all text of the link address). Press and hold your finger in the “Address” field, select “Insert”:
Click Bookmarks, click Close:
In principle, that's all. To check, open the Safari bookmarks again, find and tap on (the script) Save to Offline Pages, if we did everything correctly, we will see:
Now, when browsing sites through Safari, being on an interesting web page -> tap in the bookmarks on the script we created (wait for a pop-up confirmation window: “Done”). Let's continue browsing the Internet. We select more interesting articles. As soon as we launch Offline Pages (not necessarily on the same iDevice), ALL pages “sent” to us by the script will be loaded. There is one nuance here: if Offline Pages was launched before opening Safari, then it should be unloaded from the background and launched again. Otherwise, articles imported by the bookmarklet will not be loaded.
P.S. I shared this information with you, friends, knowing full well that you can find a lot of alternative solutions in the App Store (take the same iCab Mobile, which perfectly saves web pages and opens them without access to the Internet; not to mention Safari with a “Reading List” ) - perhaps not so powerful for working with multi-page documents...
Mobile devices from Apple, such as iPad and iPhone, can be used to watch movies. But, if you do not have much experience with these devices, then you may have some difficulties, especially if you want to download your own movies from your computer and then watch them offline, that is, without the Internet. Now we will look at several ways in which you can easily watch any movies on your iPad or iPhone.
How to watch movies using a third-party app
Let's start with more simple way watching movies on iPad and iPhone. This method is to use third party application to watch the video. Using a third-party app makes downloading movies to your device much easier, and also eliminates the need to first convert movies to MP4 format. But, this method It also has disadvantages. For example, an application for watching movies must be selected in advance; then you cannot change it; also, this method does not allow you to watch movies through the standard “Video” application, which is installed on the iPad and iPhone out of the box.
So, as we said, first you need to choose the application through which you will watch movies on your iPad or iPhone. In fact, any third-party video player that supports a large number of different video formats will work for you. We recommend using the VLC for Mobile application, this mobile version the famous desktop program VLC. It supports a large number of formats and is very stable. In this article we will use VLC for Mobile, but you can install another video player; the principle of this method of watching movies will not change.
You can find VLC for Mobile, as well as other video players, in the App Store. You can also install them on your iPad or iPhone there.
After installing the video player, you need to download movies to your iPad or iPhone. To do this, launch iTunes on your computer and connect your device to it. After iTunes detects the device, click on the button with the image of the device to go to its settings.
And in latest versions iTunes “Shared Files” has been moved to a separate section.
After you find “Shared Files”, you will see a menu similar to the one in the screenshot below. There will be a list of applications and a file field to the right of it. Here you need to find the application that you plan to use to watch movies and select it with the mouse.
After selecting an application, the “Add File” button will appear in the file field.
Click on the "Add File" button and select the movies you wanted to watch on your iPad or iPhone. Immediately after selecting a movie, iTunes will begin downloading it to your device. Once the movie download is complete, you can disconnect your device from the computer and watch the downloaded movie using the selected application.
It should be noted that this method works not only with films. In the same way, you can, for example, download e-books or other types of files. The main thing is to install an application in advance that will open these files.
How to watch movies in a standard video player
If you want to watch movies in the standard Videos app, it's a little more complicated. The problem is that you can only watch movies in MP4 format through this player. Therefore, if your films are in a different format, you will have to convert them first.
So, as we already said, you need to start by converting movies to MP4 format. To do this, you can use any program that you are comfortable using. In this article we will show how this is done using an example. free converter iWisoft Free Video Converter.
First you need to install iWisoft Free Video Converter to your computer and run it after installation. Next you need to add the films that need to be converted. To do this, use the “Add” button or simply drag the movie into the program window.
After adding the file, you need to select the format you want to convert it to. To do this, open the “Profile” drop-down menu and select the MP4 format (it is located in the iPhone section).
Once you have received the movie in MP4 format, you can download it to your iPad or iPhone. To do this, launch iTunes, open the "File" menu, select the "Add File to Library" menu item and select the MP4 file.
As a result, the movie you added should appear in the “Movies - Home Videos” section. You can open this section and check.
Now all that remains is to sync movies in iTunes with your iPad or iPhone. To do this, click on the device image at the top of the iTunes window and go to the “Movies” section.
Here you need to enable movie synchronization and click on the “Synchronize” button at the bottom of the window.
Once syncing is complete, you can launch the Videos app on your iPad or iPhone and watch the downloaded movie.
You can also buy or rent movies from the Tunes Store and then watch them in the Videos app. To do this, you need to launch the Tunes Store application on your device, go to the “Movies” section, select the desired movie, click on the “Buy” button or the “Rent” button, and confirm the payment.
Of course, tablets, and in particular the iPad, have become very popular among users due to their excellent capabilities for surfing the Internet, reading books, working and, of course, watching movies. If you want to watch a movie on your tablet, then the most acceptable option is download movie to iPad in advance.
Method 1: Download Movies Directly from the Internet
First you need to install it on your iPad or iPhone app to download videos, for example the “Offline Video Player+” program, of which there are many App Store, both paid and free.
As a rule, all such programs work on the same principle: when you start watching a movie, a special button appears to load the file into the device’s memory.
Movies downloaded in this way can be viewed directly in the program or transferred to any video player - as you like.
Method 2. Downloading movies from file-sharing networks
Download movie on iPad from file-sharing networks and using a browser Safari. However, in standard browser The download progress is not displayed, which is not very convenient. Perfect for saving movies or any files from exchangers free application — Documents 5. In addition, in Documents 5 You can immediately watch the downloaded movie (only standard iOS formats are supported).
- In the program's built-in browser Documents 5 find the desired site and link to download the film, in our example it is the file hosting service narod.ru.
- After pressing the button download, the program will prompt you to specify the location where the file will be saved and its name, after confirmation the download will begin immediately.
- After downloading, the file can be opened both in the program itself and in any media player.
You can download films specially concentrated for iOS devices on the sites:
- http://filmsiphone.ru
- http://ru-ipad.org
- http://www.bmwclub.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=456324 — a forum with a lot of films
- http://igui.mobi/films
- http://www.vzonetv.com - website with TV series.
- http://megogo.net/
Method 3 - torrents
The most famous and popular method for downloading movies and more on a PC can also be used on iOS devices. If your iPad is jailbroken, just download from . It works as easy as shelling pears, when downloading a file from any tracker .torrent open it in the application, where after selecting the files, the download will begin. Don't forget to disable the auto-lock option and also use charger, because iTransmission is a rather resource-intensive application.
If your device is not jailbroken, you can still easily install a torrent client.
After downloading the movie via iTransmission you can open it through or use the option Open in… to transfer the movie to any video player installed on the device.
How to download videos to iPhone or iPad and watch without the Internet - 5 ways. Instructions for 2016 are located.
