We’ve decided to add on to our “of the Week” series by featuring a resourceful and easy-to-use web application at the end of the week. This week, we’d like to introduce you to BackupURL, a web service that allows you to create a copy of any text-heavy website you desire and share it without the fear that it will go offline.
BackupURL stores a cached copy of your webpage and its text to a ready-to-share page, which is accessible from an already shortened link. This service is great for students who are afraid their research material and resources will go offline, or professionals who want to hold on to those important blocks of text.
We tested Backup URL to see how well it worked with caching script-heavy websites. We found some random .pdfs on display at Slideshare and plugged them into BackupURL. Fortunately, the page was still intact when we accessed it through the shortened link. However, we did noticed that trying to back up, say, Gmail inboxes, didn't work at all, and that the photos on the cached site were still linked from the original domain. Still, if the content is the most important part of a site that needs to stay intact, use BackupURL as your shortener and rest assured that your link is still accessible.
Every Thursday, we pick a new Web App as our favorite of the week. Have a Web App that you can't live without? Send suggestions to florence [AT] maximumpc.com with "Web App" in the subject line.
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