How to make Internet useful for you
2. How can I avoid visiting the same web-pages while surfing the web?
3. How can I easily view all the site-related information?
4. How can I easily save screenshots of the visited pages?
7. Image Archive. View, search and store images
9. conclusion1. Introduction
Are you fond of web surfing? Then I bet you've pondered time and again how much time you spend in front of your computer constantly digging for the information you need, and how much time you waste before you eventually find the long sought for site.
Today there are many programs designed to make your web surfing nice and smooth. Among them there are multibrowsers, bookmarkers, pop-up and ad killers, image managers and some other. Each of them has its advantages and disadvantages, and each of them provides you with a specific set of features. A multibrowser, for example, will allow you to conveniently view all the opened web pages within a single window. A bookmarker will enable you to create and manage your bookmarks archive, while banner ads and pop-up killers will help you get rid of the annoying advertisements on the Internet. These features are definitely very useful. But in order to take advantage of them, you'll need to install quite a number of programs (which may not work correctly together).
One of the advantages – or disadvantages – of the World Wide Web is that every web page can be accessed from a number of web sites. As a result, we often have to waste time viewing the same pages time and again. This is the type of problem we face every day. This naturally leads to a question: where do I get a program that would take care of it all and make my Internet browsing experiences smooth and enjoyable?
Well, there hardly exists a software solution that could meet the needs of each and every person. But, there is one that can come in real handy for virtually anyone fond of surfing the web. It is called iNetAdviser, from the SoftInform Company. Why did we pick this program for review? Well, there's a good reason to it. In the first place, iNetAdviser integrates all the advantages of a multibrowser, a bookmarker, a pop-up and ad killer, image manager, etc. And finally – which is most important – the software is an easy-to-use and comprehensive solution fit for everyone.
Let's see, what good is iNetAdviser.2. How can I avoid visiting the same web-pages while surfing the web ?
As an instance, iNetAdviser allows highlighting the previously visited links (strikeout by default) making it easy for users to avoid visiting the same web sites while surfing the Internet.
You can always refresh your memory by simply hovering your mouse over the desired link, which makes the application display a pop-up hint showing the page-related comments, its rating and last view date, and even the way it looks!
Let us consider the following situation. Say, you have visited a certain web site and you didn't like it for whatever reason – maybe, it's full of nagging commercials. Naturally, you don't want to visit it again. However, while searching the web you constantly encounter links to this or that page of the site. As you never visited them, iNetAdviser doesn't mark them anyhow. So you click the link and start exploring the web site only to discover it's exactly the site that drastically disappointed you.3. How can I easily view all the site-related information?
iNetAdviser provides a foolproof means to avoid such frustration. Whenever you visit a page within an already familiar domain, the Domain Links button will be highlighted green – both in the Internet Explorer toolbar and in the program itself. Just single-click it to instantly see which pages of a given domain you have already visited and view the comments you made for a particular page.
This feature is also useful when browsing a certain domain. For example, browsing through an e-shop you can easily go to its home page or any other page you have already visited. And you don't have to care how you get there – iNetAdviser takes care of it! This technique enables you to avoid clicking many unnecessary links and spares you the trouble of loading and exploring the pages you do not need at all. Additionally, the program iNetAdviser enables its users to conveniently view all the site-related comments in a single window for a quick glimpse.
4. How can I easily save screenshots of the visited pages ?
Additionally, iNetAdviser enables you to easily take snapshots of the pages you navigate through. Just single-click the little camera icon on the program toolbar while viewing the page or activate the Automatic Capture Mode. In this way such a snapshot makes the page easily recognizable, and whenever you encounter the link elsewhere on the Web, you'll be able not only to view the link comments, but also get an idea of how the page looks. In many cases this allows to easily decide whether the page is worth opening.
5.Multibrowsing
For example, iNetAdviser allows opening quite a number of pages at a time using a separate tab for every page window and freeing up valuable taskbar space. You can easily switch between the opened windows by clicking the corresponding tabs or by means of the Fast View Navigator bar.
Hovering the mouse over a link in the Fast View Navigator makes the program display a pop-up hint containing loads of useful information – exactly like in the browser window. The program also allows locking the particular windows from accidental close and sorting them the way you find most convenient.
iNetAdviser enables you to open multiple web-pages with a single mouse-click saving your precious time. In this way it's pretty easy to open a number of selected pages in a list or all the pages related to a certain rubric.
However, the above-mentioned technique only applies when certain links are already bookmarked in the program. When you deal with links in the browser window – which is more frequently the case – you can easily select the links you need and open each link in a separate window using the context menu command. The program will automatically exclude duplicates and enable you to open exactly the links you need.
Additionally, iNetAdviser is capable of saving and loading your current desktop settings. This innovative feature enables you to suspend your browsing session and resume it at any time later on while keeping all the opened windows and their exact order intact. Switching between different desktops enables you to easily change your surfing direction without having to worry about any important information you might miss.6. Ad and pop up blocking
In addition to the possibility of blocking ads by URL-masks included into black list, new version of INetAdviser has obtained the ability to block banners, which have specific dimensions. The application would block not only the ads of common dimensions (468x60, 88x31, etc), but of any other dimensions predefined by user. Moreover, to provide more flexible options for this feature, a user can set a range for dimensions that would allow blocking the banners whose dimensions differ a bit from standards.
When blocking the loading of banners in compliance with user settings, INetAdviser can either cut the banner and “shrink” the page area, which has been occupied by the ad, or change the banner with predefined small text block. Both options are useful depending on the situation.
When a text block is put instead of the banner, the web page integrity is not broken – i.e. the page is shown “as is”, but without ads. In its part, the option to shrink the page is useful for the pages that are overloaded with banners, when on the one hand they contain minimum information, and on the other they are stretched to several screens, making their viewing impossible.7. Image Archive. View, search and store images
You can view images stored on different types of data carriers, no matter what it is – your Hard Drive or a CD. The program displays catalogue structure of disk, and all you need is to specify the folder with images you wish to view, and just enjoy the slide show. Of course, new features do not include image-handling features only. If you wish, you can save all or selected images into iNetAdviser archive to work with them later. You can provide imported images with your comments, get them rated and bind them to one or few rubrics. You can organize a list from selected images to view them in slide show mode, and much more.
Besides, iNetAdviser allows saving all images from any opened page in one click. Just click a button on the tool bar, and you’ll see the list of images gathered from the page. You can choose the images you need and immediately rate them, comment, bind to a rubric. If you wish, you can set a filter for images with dimensions you do not want to see in the gathered images list at all.
And in case you do not want to waste time saving images yourself, you can set an option for automatic image saving: images would be saved automatically from the pages you visit. You can rate, comment or bind these images automatically using system of templates.
Besides iNetAdviser features extended abilities for handling images (pictures, digital photos, clipart, etc.):
- Download images from the specified sites. Download options can be tuned easily. You can set the level of target web pages nesting; you can limit the range of target web pages by specifying a domain name, image dimensions, image size and so on.
- View and import images from Hard Drive into the database. The ability to import images from other data carriers (CD) is also supported.
- Search images in the Web using multiple search engines and import them into database. Current version supports 7 image-searching web engines.
Erase duplicate images from the database even if these images have different names. You can call this function at any time, but also you can just turn on the option to avoid importing duplicate files into database.
- Search images in the database with ease. Saved images can be bounded to rubrics, rated; also you can add comments to any image. You can find any image in the database immediately using extended search. Multiple images can be grouped into various lists. Besides you can share your images with friends using ability of importing/exporting.
8.Other Features
Professionals, that often occupy themselves with researching of Internet resources, will doubtlessly appreciate iNetAdviser’s abilities for working with lists. INetAdviser lets you arranging any URL lists, store and manage them (split, join, etc.).
When browsing a certain web page with iNetAdviser you can translate it into any language you need. To do this, be sure to take advantage of the online translation service feature, easily accessible from the iNetAdviser menu. Simply choose the target and source languages and wait till it loads in the language of your choice.
With iNetAdviser you can not only “see” the Internet, but also “listen” to it. For this purpose, be sure to utilize the voicing feature of iNetAdviser.
The program makes it possible to listen to any segment of a particular web page. To do it, simply select the desired text area and single-click the little speaker icon on the iNetAdviser toolbar.9. Conclusion
iNetAdviser is an all-in-one tool for comfortable work in the Internet useful both for power and for home users.
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