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Monday, January 26, 2004
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Grab Web images and maintain their records
Raman Mohan

Though it is no big deal to copy images from the Websites and store them on the computer, yet keeping a track of their origin can be a tough job after a period. The freeware featured solves this problem. By grabbing images with this tool, you can automatically store all information concerning a particular image that can always be recalled. This can also help to get back to the site for more images. It can certainly be a good addition to freebies.

Image Co-tracker

This is a tool for creating databases of images from the Internet. It automatically captures the image. Its Internet address where the image has been found, name and the date are added to the database. Image Co-tracker is valuable for many applications like managing image galleries and storing banner ads, pictures, or favourite comics. Once an image has been grabbed, you can do the following: add textual information about the image, create catalogues for images and manage them, organise images into categories, sort images and image information, follow the link associated with the image just by clicking on it, import/export image catalogues to work with them at other computers, export an image catalogue to HTML, send an image catalogue by e-mail, control how the images and information are displayed, search and print an image catalogue and delete images. You can manage the database offline. However, to follow a link or to view a page from which you have grabbed an image or the page to which the image refers, you will need an Internet connection. When you install Image Co-tracker on your computer, the database contains one record — the Cogitum LC image describing how to use the program. Basically, to add an image to the database, you have to "grab" it by launching Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher. To open an image saved on your computer just Select File and click on the Open Tab. Then click Browse and select the file type in the file type drop-down list. If you are not sure about the file type, select ‘All files.’ Thereafter, select location of the file and click Open. You can position the pointer on the top of the image you want to grab and click the right mouse button. And from the drop-down menu, select Grab Image. It goes to the Image catalogue, which is a folder that contains the image database. To create a new image catalogue, click the Create New Image Catalogue button or select Catalogue and then New from the menu. The New Image Catalogue window will appear. Select a folder for new data. By default a new catalogue will be created at the same level of the folders tree as the current catalogue. The default name of an image catalogue will be "Image Co-tracker." To change it, enter a new name in the edit box. To allow distinguishing between the Image Co-tracker catalogues a newly created catalogue has an .ic extension. Enter the name of the sub-folder in the edit box (or use the default) and click OK. As you use the freeware you will find it much easier to use. Download from www.co-tracker.com