IMPORTANT: This is an alpha release (what's this?). Some features are not complete and you will find bugs!
You must be already running 2.2.
To install:
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Awasu can now automatically download linked-to feed items so that they can be read while offline. This can be turned on for each channel individually on the Advanced page of the Channel Properties dialog.
Feed items that are available offline will be marked with a special icon in the channel summary pages (
).
If you are offline, clicking on a feed item will automatically show the saved version instead, or you can just click on the available offline icon (even if you're online).
It should be noted that web pages tend to be complicated affairs these days and saving them for reading offline is not a simple task. Web pages often contain scripts that try to connect to other web sites which will obviously not work if you are offline. This means that you will sometimes see a delay when opening these offline feed items, or the page will sometimes not display properly (because it's trying to get stylesheets, etc. from other sites). However, the content will always be available, which is the most important thing.
IMPORTANT: This feature only works if you use Internet Explorer to read the offline feed items. Awasu stores the web pages using the Internet-standard RFC 2557 format which is not supported by Mozilla.
The usual caveats about being considerate and not needlessly burning up huge amounts of other peoples' bandwidth apply. Of course, this feature also has the potential to burn up huge amounts of your disk space as well :-)
This feature is available only in the Professional Edition.
LATE-BREAKING BUG: You must have Auto-detect an Internet connection turned on in the Program Options (Advanced page) for Awasu to automatically switch to showing the saved feed items when you are offline.
Feed items often have images embedded in them which will be displayed as ugly "broken image" boxes (e.g. 
) if you are offline.
Awasu can now download these images and show them instead if you are offline.
This feature can be turned on from the Archive page of the Program Options dialog and affects all channels.
It is possible to restrict where images can be downloaded from so that you don't download ads, etc. However, testing showed that it's less annoying to see the ads than the "broken image" markers, so this feature is turned off by default. Publishers often host images at a domain other than the one where their feed is coming from so these would have to be individually allowed as well.
NOTE: When you are offline, Awasu replaces <img> URL's with special ones that Awasu itself will handle. This means that if you copy a feed item's HTML to use elsewhere (e.g. because you want to quote it in one of your own blog posts), the image URL's will be incorrect.
This feature is available only in the Advanced and Professional Editions.
LATE-BREAKING BUG: You must have Auto-detect an Internet connection turned on in the Program Options (Advanced page) for Awasu to automatically switch to showing the saved images when you are offline.
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