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Das wollen echte Daddies!:

This is a piece of software I would love to have: A proxy that runs on my notebook and that intelligently caches certain websites so I can surf them when being offline.

More specifically:

• A proxy that runs on my notebook
• The proxy knows what pages/sites I want to have available when being offline
• When the browser requests one of those pages, the proxy checks wether the website is reachable. If so, it downloads the page and sends it to the browser. If the proxy can’t reach the website, it tries to serve the page from its local cache.

This way, I could surf normally when being online. When being offline, I could only access a little part of the internet – but I could still read some pages.

Once this is achieved, the proxy could be improved:

• While being idle and having an internet connection, it could refresh pages in it’s cache
• By counting what pages I access often, it could decide what pages make sense to be cached
• It could learn what pages change how often and adapt the refresh intervals accordingly
• …

And here are the questions I have:

• Does anyone out there know a tool that provides this functionality?
• Would anyone see a killer-problem I missed?
• Any good ideas how this could be built?

For completeness of information: I use a MacBook, OS X 10.6. Comments are welcome….

Have a nice evening,

– Till.

…auch wenn er nicht von Apple ist

– Till.

Un oncle m’a envoyé ce lien pour un jeu de géographie française: Till, c’est la honte, ce score:

Score honteux - Geo française

Si vous croyez mieux-faire, allez-y!

A realy nice idea of how the human interface of PCs could evolve. And nicely presented!

Comes from 10/GUI.

When will Apple release it?

– Till.

A real digital jewel: A fancy way describing what the Internet thinks about you… More details available here.

I’ve been discussing this “oh my god, we’re all becoming so visible in the Internet” topic so often, this interpretation is really nice!

Via Jens Meiert.

Enjoy the evening,
– Till.

Look at what HTML makes people think about!:

Gracias Sergio por el tip,
– Till.

Nice way of showing:

Enjoy your day,
– Till.

After 3 months in the new flat, today came the last passwords I needed from Telekom in order to set up the VDSL access.

And that’s the result:
According to Telekom we should be able to watch IPTV with this. Let’s see…

BTW: I took the test at SpeedTest.net, it was the best I found.

Have a good week end,
– Till.