MaximumPC 2004 10

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Unheard of

Utilities

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Express WebPictures

Whether you like to collect

anime, 3D games, kitten

pics, or some other class

of digital imagery, we’re

sure you’ve experienced the

hassle of wading through scads of thumb-

nails and then saving larger versions to a

folder somewhere on your PC. This is why

Express WebPictures makes us so happy.

Simply point the application to a particular

web site and like a giant binary vacuum it

downloads all of the site’s images and/or

videos and deposits them in a file on your

PC named after the URL. During testing we

were able to downloaded 464 videos equal-

ing 1.94GB from a “crazy video” archive on

the net. You think you’d want to download

that many videos manually?

You can start the app manually or

leave it running in the system tray, which

automates the process. Either way, you

just have to start a new project, enter the

URL, define the terms and types of files,

and then let EWP do its thing. It notifies

you when downloading is complete, and

includes an image viewing program that

functions similarly to ACDSee.

All in all, this utility is easy to use, blaz-

ing quick, and does an excellent job of

organizing its tasks. It even works on pass-

word protected sites. Free 30-day trial/ $40,

http://www.neowise.com

To get started, open the program and

select New Project. Then simply paste

the URL of the site from which you’d

like to download and click Next.

In the second step you can specify the

extent of your download. Shoot, you

can download every image on a site, if

that’s your fancy.

Finally, select the kind of files you’d

like to download and put the utility

to work. When the downloading is

complete, you’ll be notified. You can

also browse the images in the utility’s

main interface area.

Express WebPictures

Whether you like to collect

anime, 3D games, kitten

pics, or some other class

of digital imagery, we’re

sure you’ve experienced the

Restoration

We’ve all experienced that

sinking feeling upon real-

izing that a file we were look-

ing all over for was in the Recycle Bin—

which we just emptied! No worries. As

you may or may not know, emptying files

from the Recycle Bin merely removes any

outward visual reference to them within

Windows, but files still exist until they are

overwritten by other files. Because of this,

it’s often possible to recover deleted files,

and Restoration is the best utility we’ve

found for the job.

The key is to not lollygag. You have a

much better chance of recovering a file if

it’s been recently deleted, simply because

there’s less chance it’s been overwritten.

Just select the drive the file was on and

the utility will show you all the files that

have been deleted, allowing you to restore

the one you’re looking for.

Other restoration utilities perform the

same function, but they’re either more

difficult to use or cost money. Restoration

is so effective because it cuts to the chase

and gets the job done quickly.

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Once we located our file, we clicked

“Restore by Copying” and were

prompted to save it to a location of

our choosing.

You’re discouraged from

resaving data to the

same drive from which it

was deleted, but we had

no problems doing so

during testing.

Restoration

The restoration process begins by select-

ing the drive that housed the file you

erased. In this screenshot, we selected

C: and clicked Search Deleted Files.

sinking feeling upon real-

izing that a file we were look-

sure you’ve experienced the

of digital imagery, we’re

sure you’ve experienced the

Easily extract a URL ’ s image archive

Dig into your Recycle Bin ’ s refuse