Monday, April 7, 2003		Downloads

NOW you can download the entire Website to your PC and surf it offline whenever it’s convenient. This is a freeware and that’s a bonus. The other featured freeware is a tool to recover images deleted from a digital camera. Veteran digital camera users know how often they lose images by mistake. But this freeware lets you recover lost images safely.

WebReaper

WebReaper is a Web crawler that can be used to download objects, Web pages or even entire Websites from the Internet unattended. The downloaded objects will be saved in the Windows Internet cache and can then be browsed using Internet Explorer (v4 or higher) in offline mode, or one of the ‘cache browsers’ available from various sources. Alternatively, WebReaper will recreate the entire downloaded Website on your local hard disk, even adjusting the links within the site so that it can be viewed directly using the browser of your choice. It features multi-threaded downloading, explorer-style interface, user-customisable filters, a simple-to-use filter wizard, full drag and drop support, saves downloaded files using relative paths to recreate Websites stored locally with links adjusted to make them fully browsable and ‘Resume’ mode which reads files saved locally to avoid reloading unchanged pages. In order to work, WebReaper needs a Windows system with an Internet link pre-configured. Also, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or higher needs to be installed. If you get an error on startup claiming that WinINet.DLL is missing, you need to install/configure IE. To start downloading the contents of a Website, simply click on the Address Bar and type the URL (e.g., www.island-of-sark.co.uk). Click Go and WebReaper will read in the page at that address, extracting a list of all links within that page. Once the page has been completely downloaded, the same process will be performed on each of the sub-links in turn. The structure of the links will be represented in the Tree Pane, with the starting (‘root’) link at the very top, and sub-links below. Download from: www.webreaper.net

Digital Image Recovery

Recovering of photos deleted from the digital camera memory is possible because most of cameras delete just references to photos while deleting. So deleted photos are still in memory but cannot be accessed by standard means. Non-standard methods utilising direct access to the data medium allow to recover images, in most cases, but only if no new data was written over them. In most cases the direct access may be gained without any complementary devices by just connecting the digital camera to PC as during usual photos copying. Appropriate card reader (depending on the media type) will work as well. Digital photography utilises many types of storage (e.g. Compact Flash, Memory Sticks and so on). They are referred to as "storage media". Similary, there are multiple ways to access data on the storage media, e.g. using the camera itself, using a memory card reader device and so on. All of these devices capable of accessing storage media are referred as devices. To recover data, select the device from which images should be recovered. List indicates the media sizes. Common media sizes are small and devices should be readily identified (typically, you will only see one device in the list). Once device is selected choose the folder to which recovered images should be stored and click Proceed. Download available at www.z-a-recovery.com