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Basic Information

What is Iphoto?
Iphoto is an Internet software tool to help you download pictures from web site!

What can I do with it and how does it work?
It is very easy. Select the web site you want and set the disk directory you want to store the pictures, then click, it will access the web site and download the pictures it contains automatically.

What is the system requirement?
You will need a Pentium 120 PC or higher, 32MB RAM or more. The operating system should be Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows ME. At least 10 MB free hard disk space.

How to Buy?
Click here

Is techical support free?
Yes! It's free for all.

I have more questions - who should I write to?
It's our pleasure to get your question [email protected].

General usage

Why are the downloaded pictures not on my hard disk sometimes?
You should click button 'Options' and check the parameter 'Picture Names' to see if you have selected 'Stamps pictures names with time info'. When you search a web site and download pictures, there are a lot of pictures have the same name, such as 1.jpg or 2.jpg etc. If you select 'Save pictures with original names', the picture file on your hard disk will be overwritten by new picture which has the same picture name. The solution we provide is to add the time info to the picture file names. That is:
pictureoriginalname_year-month-day_hour-minute-second.gif/jpg

Why even if I have selected 'Stamps pictures names with time info' the pictures I downloaded still do not exist on my hard disk, I check them several times but no result, why?
You can get the correct picture file name in the 'Picture Name'- the third column of pictures list. Please recheck the pictures using the new name.

I only want to download pictures on a web page rather than searching more of its sub pages, what should I do to make it complete more quickly?
You should set the max level in 'Options-Search' to 1. This will make Iphoto only check the web page itself and download pictures on it rather than check more web pages, which can make Iphoto complete downloading more quickly and save your time.

What value of Max Level in 'Options-Search' I should set when I search a web site with sub strings and only want to download the pictures relate to the sub strings rather than more web pages?
You should set the 'Max Level' in 'Options-Search' to 2.

Why there are some web sites/pages I can not download any picture from them using Iphoto?
Some web pages include DHTML, which is more complicated than general HTML web page. Some web sites also apply the technique to block web spiders. If you met such cases, please send the information to us:

1.Click menu 'Web-Save As' to save the site you can not download pictures to a '.sit' file.
2.Attached the 'sit' file and email us. We will analyze the web site to upgrade the software as soon as possible. We will notify you when it is available.

Where can I get more pictures I am interesting in?
We suggest you can utilize some search engines to get some URLs include the pictures you want, using keywords or other options.

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