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

These pages are extracted from Nici's help system and require Internet Explorer v5.0 or later.

Certain interactive commands are not available in the online version.

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Last Picture
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Download Line
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Picture pages

If Nici-Quick {Nici-Quick is the default download strategy. It quickly and efficiently downloads, and classifies pages as either Picture pages or Directory pages. Nici also offers the Crawl download strategy which can be used if Nici-Quick does not correctly handle the page. Show more help for this topicMore } can see a series of pictures in downloaded web-page, the page {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 } is classified as a picture page, and Nici attempts to download the pictures.

Tips

If you do not like a page's pictures, remove the page by pressing <Delete>. This saves hard disk space, and improves Nici's link ranking ability.

Notes

Nici may not download {Nici may not download pictures for a number of reasons; not confident in picking the desired pictures; pictures were too small or large, connection errors, or the page was skipped.} some or any pictures. To try for more pictures, double click on the page and click on the Download Again button.

Nici saves all pictures to your hard drive. When Nici is closed, all pages with pictures are saved in and can be viewed again next time you use Nici as archived pages {An archived page is a page that is saved for future viewing. Any page with downloaded pictures becomes an archived page when it finishes downloading. Archived pages are automatically organized into various folders. Show more help for this topicMore }.

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