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- PicPluck! v2.04
- last updated: February 13, 2000
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- FOR THE FIRST-TIME USER
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- When PicPluck first runs, you'll need to answer a few questions (completely private --
- see below). Once the application is loaded, you'll see three windows -- an Image Viewer,
- a Website window, and a Browser window. Just hit "Go" on the Browser window and
- the webpage of Yosemite National Park will appear. Hit "Pluck this page" to call up
- the Website window, then hit "Go!" You'll see the images slowly being downloaded to
- your local hard drive. It's that easy! You can also right-click on URLs within
- the browser window to specify specific links to pluck.
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- PicPluck is FreeWare. You are free to use it as long as you'd like, and are
- encouraged to give it to other people. The development of PicPluck is funded
- in part by advertisements that are displayed while using PicPluck.
- NO INFORMATION THAT CAN IDENTIFY YOU IS COLLECTED. The information that is
- collected is used only to show advertisements that will be of interest to you,
- and this information is NOT stored on your computer. Absolutely *no* monitoring
- of your use of PicPluck is done -- YOUR PRIVACY IS 100% RESPECTED.
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- If you like PicPluck and would like to disable the advertisements, you may purchase
- an unlock code for $29.95 (see the Purchase menu when running PicPluck),
- but there is neither an obligation nor a necessity to do so.
- If you've previously purchased an unlock code for PicPluck, the same code will
- work with this and all future versions.
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- Thank you for trying PicPluck!
-
- the Random Innovations staff
- http://www.picpluck.com
- comments@picpluck.com
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- v2.01-2.04: bug fixes for stability.
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- NEW FEATURES for v2.0!
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- Built-in mini-browser: easy navigation of web to find & select pages of pictures
- to download. No JavaScript, so no popups! Just right-click on any URL and you'll
- be downloading images instantly! This also allows you to "log-in" to CGI-based
- sites, so you can process them now.
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- Multiple window interface: you can now download from multiple URLs simultaneously
- using multiple PicPluck windows. Use the standard CTRL-F6 to switch
- between windows.
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- Image cache: PicPluck remembers every document & image you've visited since starting
- PicPluck, so nothing is ever downloaded twice. So when you're browsing with the
- mini-browser, and you decide to Pluck a page, the images you've already seen in the
- browser won't have to be downloaded again! The cache is not stored on disk, only in
- memory.
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- Images can now be optionally fit-to-screen instead of using a scroll bar for large
- images.
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- New image viewer: view images in multiple subdirectories easily.
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- AVIs and MPGs are downloadable and viewable.
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- Major bug fixes: completely replaced the HTTP download library, which was the source
- of many, many problems. Continued to improve parsing of web pages to extract
- previously missed images.
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