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- TIFNY 1.1 for Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0.
- Copyright ⌐ 1996 Phonetics International
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- Automated USENET Newsgroup Photo Browser
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- Contents
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- PLATFORMS SUPPORTED
- A SHAREWARE PRODUCT
- HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
- DESCRIPTION OF PRODUCT
- TIFNY FEATURES
- NEW FEATURES
- INSTALLATION NOTES
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- PLATFORMS SUPPORTED
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- TIFNY is a 32 bit multi-threaded compatible application which
- runs on both Windows 95 and Windows NT4.0 platforms. TIFNY will
- not operate correctly on Windows 3.x, 3.11, or Windows NT
- versions less than 4.0.
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- A SHAREWARE PRODUCT
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- TIFNY is a "complete" program, i.e.: it performs all of the
- major functions normally expected. It is *not* 'crippleware'.
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- It is copyrighted (as opposed to uncopyrighted software which is
- "public domain").
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- TIFNY may be copied for others to try, but a registration fee
- is required as a condition of continued use beyond the trial
- usage period arbitrarily determined by the author. TIFNY is
- not "Time Stamped" and does not stop functioning after a
- specific date.
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- Please refer to the licensing agreement, license.rtf in the
- directory TIFNY was installed.
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- HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
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- $29.95 US Dollars, you can pay by credit card, check or money order.
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- FILLING OUT THE REGISTRATION FORM
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- From the Product menu in TIFNY, choose the menu item
- "Registration" to bring up the Registration form. Enter your
- name, address, email-id, and telephone number. If you are paying
- by credit card, fill out the credit card information. American
- Express, VISA, and MasterCard are welcomed.
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- BY MODEM IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
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- You can send your registration securely by modem. First,
- shutdown your internet dialer, or any other application, such as
- a fax manager that maybe using the modem. If you are located in
- the United States or Canada, you can use our toll free telephone
- number to send us your registration. You do not need to edit the
- text field, "Call TIFNY At". Our toll free number will already
- be filled in. Press the button, "Send By Modem" to complete the
- transaction.
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- BY MODEM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
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- You can also send us your registration securely by modem. Edit
- the text field, "Call TIFNY At", to dial our direct number in
- the U.S. 1-212-5391475. Add the international calling prefix for
- your country to the beginning of the number. Then press the
- button, "Send By Modem".
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- BY MAIL OR FAX
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- If paying by money order or check, send your registration form
- by registered mail. Press the button "Print It", for a print
- out. Send by mail to the following address:
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- TIFNY
- 163 Third Ave.
- Box #131, N.Y. N.Y. 10003
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- YOU CAN ALSO FAX YOUR REGISTRATION
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- To send by FAX, change your Printer settings in Control Panel to
- point to your FAX manager. Then press "Print It" in TIFNY's
- registration form.
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- Our fax number is 1-212-533-1456.
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- DESCRIPTION OF PRODUCT
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- TIFNY connects to any NNTP compatible news server, and will
- automatically download and catalog UUENCODED pictures to your
- hard disk. Images are placed in user defined subdirectories
- by default. Images may be directed to an alternate location by
- setting the full path as the search name, for example,
- e:\fineart. Image information is stored in a Microsoft Access
- Database called tifny.mbd, located in the TIFNY installation
- directory, usually c:\Program Files\TIFNY, unless another
- location was specified during installation.
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- TIFNY can showcase images logged in the database, while
- immediately displaying new downloads as they occur. The user
- defines search criteria with optional deny filters to select
- news articles images for download. TIFNY is able to deny images
- by series, authors, organizations or keywords in the subject
- header, and avoid redundant searching and duplicate downloading,
- saving you time and bandwidth. As users build their deny list,
- TIFNY "learns" to download only the best images.
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- Use TIFNY to navigate the newsgroups, hands-free, and discover
- it's photographic treasures while automatically filtering
- unwanted spammers, offensive postings and cross-postings.
- Retrieve USENET newsgroup images that are filtered and offer
- graphics you deem relevant and exciting.
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- TIFNY software was developed in Visual Basic running under
- Windows 95 and has been tested under Windows95 & NT4.0.
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- TIFNY FEATURES:
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- * slideshow of downloaded images while displaying new downloads
- as they occur.
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- * database "remembers" what newsgroups have been searched and
- will resume from where it last read an image. Getting
- disconnected from your ISP will never interfere with where you
- last read an image. TIFNY will resume as if it had never been
- disconnected.
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- * user-defined search lists with filters to deny series,
- authors, organizations or keywords in the subject header.
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- * delete undesired images from the database and hard disk by
- simply clicking on the "deny" buttons to delete by series,
- author, organization or keyword in the subject header
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- * Optimal scanning for images in thousands of newsgroups!
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- * Image files are stored in user named directories for
- off-line viewing with TIFNY or third party image viewers.
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- * TIFNY also supports NNTP login authentication, if your News
- Server requires a user id and password.
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- * TIFNY can run "off-line" and be used as an image utility.
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- NEW FEATURES:
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- TIFNY1.1 - 4Dec96
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- * BASE64 SUPPORTED
- JPEG images posted to the newsgroups encoded in Base64, can now
- be read by TIFNY.
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- * CROSS POSTING THRESHOLD LEVEL ADDED TO PREFERENCES
- Authors who cross post to "too" many newsgroups is an indication
- the image was cross posted outside of its theme. This is
- otherwise known as an image spammer. Setting the threshold value
- to 0, allows TIFNY to download an image that has been arbitrarily
- cross posted. Setting the threshold value to 4, for example,
- will download an image only if it has been cross posted to four
- or less newsgroups. This feature will virtually eliminate any
- spammed image from being downloaded.
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- * SPECIAL EFFECTS TOGGLE ADDED TO PREFERENCES
- Special Effects added for image segues. This slows TIFNY down,
- but adds dramatic effects to image transitions.
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- * TEXT WARNING TOGGLE ADDED TO PREFERENCES
- If the toggle button "Text" is off and the "text warning" box in
- preferences is checked, then the "Text" button will blink to
- indicate the image has associated text.
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- * DELETE QUEUE DEPTH ADDED TO PREFERENCES
- TIFNY does delete pictures from the hard drive, but not
- immediately. Images "marked" for deletion are placed in a "to be
- deleted queue" and its length is set in preferences. The
- queue operates on a first in first out basis, meaning when the
- queue is full, the "oldest" image marked for delete will now be
- deleted from the hard drive. This way you will have the
- opportunity to retrieve the most recent images marked for
- deletion. When TIFNY exits, any images marked for deletion will
- now be removed from the hard drive.
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- * LOOP BUTTON ADDED TO MAIN WINDOW
- Setting this toggle "on" begins a never ending search.
- When a search has completed and the "Loop" button is made
- active, TIFNY waits 1 minute, and begins the same search again.
- TIFNY continues to "Loop" until the "Stop" button is pressed or
- the "Loop" button is made inactive.
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- * GO BACK BUTTON ADDED TO MAIN WINDOW
- Start the next search at the first message available in the
- newsgroup. If this toggle is "on", the next search will visit
- every message available in each newsgroup in the search, even if
- we read it before. The current position in the newsgroups will
- NOT be affected. You will be able to start subsequent searches
- from where you left off, when then toggle is "off". Images seen
- previously will be accepted and all other filters will be
- applied. This feature is similar to other news readers that can
- mark articles as "unread", but TIFNY does this only for the
- duration of when the toggle is "on".
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- * TEXT BUTTON ADDED TO MAIN WINDOW
- Setting this toggle "on", dims the image, if there is associated text.
- Then layers the text on to the dimmed image. If the toggle button "Text"
- is off and the "text warning" box in preferences is checked, then the
- "Text" button will blink to indicate the image has associated text.
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- * POST NOW INCLUDES TEXT
- Posting news articles to a newsgroup can now include associated
- text with the image. The "Comments" text box in the "TIFNY
- Posting" form will be associated with the posted image.
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- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS:
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- email info@tifny.com
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- INSTALLATION NOTES
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- 1). Make sure you have installed the TIFNY system support
- file called tifnysys.exe FIRST!!!! If you don't run this file
- before setup.exe, TIFNY may not run correctly. Since TIFNY is
- using the latest software technology, OCX program modules,
- Windows 95 must register these software elements in a prescribed
- order. If you ran setup.exe first and then ran tifnysys.exe,
- TIFNY may not run correctly. To correct this, just start over
- again, and run tifnysys.exe first, followed by setup.exe.
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- TO RUN TIFNY
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- * Run the program (from the Program Manager or Start menu).
- * Set the Server address to point to your NNTP server. TIFNY
- will guess an appropriate server based on existing settings in
- your registry.
- * Read the Quick Start Help.
- * Read the Help file for answers to any questions.
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- FILE DESCRIPTIONS
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- tifny.mdb is a Microsoft Access database of image information.
- The images are not stored in the database, but on your hard disk.
- Location: TIFNY installation directory.
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- <filename>.jpg files are images file downloaded from the
- newsgroups and placed in subdirectories by default. Alternate
- directories can be specified in the "Search->Define Search" menu
- in the "Directory" input box, for example, e:\animals.
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- <filename>.tifny" files contain the text which came with the
- associated image and are stored in the same directory as the
- jpg files.
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- tifny.log Log file for program trace of exceptions. Location:
- TIFNY installation directory.
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- remove.exe will remove TIFNY from your system. Unwise. Location:
- TIFNY installation directory.
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- tifny.hlp is the help file. Location: TIFNY installation
- directory.
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- license.rtf is a rich text format file detailing the licensing
- agreement to use TIFNY. Please read.
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- tifny.cnt is an auxiliary help index file used by the help menu.
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- readme.1st is this file.
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