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Online help pages for the Nici Picture Downloader for Windows 98,ME,2000,XP and 2003.

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Certain interactive commands are not available in the online version.

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Overview of Nici
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History page
Download Control Window
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Nici-Quick vs Crawl Strategies
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Thumb Directory pages
Auto-Pilot
Unknown pages
Downloading Pages
Download Pages
Downloading Movies
Last Picture
Removing Pages
Download Line
Search Engines
Getting More Pictures
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Pictures
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Organizing Pages
My Archives
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Slideshows
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Glossary
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Nici specializes in quickly downloading series of pictures, it does not waste your time or bandwidth if it does not recognize the type of web-page. Since there are so many new picture pages {The Nici-Quick download strategy classifies a web-page as a Picture page if it contains a series of pictures. Nici-Quick then automatically downloads these pictures. Show more help for this topicMore } listed each day, if Nici does not find any pictures on a particular page, it just moves on to the next. Show more help for this topicMore

Nici saves pages {A page starts as a url address of a web-page and is listed on the left-hand side of the Nici window. When a page is first added, it is classified as a waiting page, then as a downloading page, then as a finished page. The Nici-Quick strategy further classifies a finished page as either a picture page or directory page depending on what it contains. Show more help for this topicMore } and pictures so you can view them later. Pages are listed on the left of the screen. Show more help for this topicMore

Nici can show you various views of a page. Select a page by clicking on it and then switch to various views {The selected page can be viewed various ways Show more help for this topicMore } of the page using the icons. Show more help for this topicMore

Nici's download line {The download line contains pages waiting to be downloaded. Unlike a browser, Nici allows you to choose many links without waiting for each to finish downloading. Show more help for this topicMore } frees you from constantly having to click on links to see pictures. When you click on a link it is added to the download line. Nici downloads the two pages at the front of line until the download line is empty. Show more help for this topicMore

Nici analyzes web-pages so you can quickly see what are good versus blind links or whether you have already downloaded a page.Show more help for this topicMore

Nici can safely display web-pages removing all scripts. pop-ups and other potential nasties .Show more help for this topicMore

Nici protects your privacy, downloading pictures exactly the same way as a Web-Browser does from public web-sites. No information about you is ever sent to anyone, period. Show more help for this topicMore