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Amazon.com Review
If you view the World Wide Web as a giant virtual scrapbook, then Data Becker's Web Magnet is the tool for sifting through it and uncovering the media files that you need. Web Magnet sorts, catalogs, and downloads images, sound files, and video clips from the Web to a specified folder. It can search any number of Web sites, as well as major search engines and Usenet newsgroups, based on a keyword or filename.
Here's how it works: smaller files such as still images (including JPEG and GIF) and sound files (like MP3) are downloaded immediately as matches to the search are found. Because of the size of most video files like MPEG and MOV, matches for these searches are only listed, not downloaded; files can then be individually selected for downloading.
As search matches for image files are found, Web Magnet creates a thumbnail preview for each. Most image files can be viewed in Web Magnet's image viewer, but (oddly enough) GIF files cannot. Also, sound files and video clips cannot be viewed inside Web Magnet and require their own viewer.
Speed is of the essence when it comes to a tool like this, and Internet connection speed really determines how useful or painful using Web Magnet can be. On a fast connection like a cable modem or DSL line, Web Magnet can be a fast and easy way to gather pictures for a school report or church bulletin. On a slower dial-up line like a 56K modem, downloading large sets of images, not to mention video clips, can be somewhat painful.
Web Magnet is simple and convenient. It bundles search, download, and organization processes into one application, making it fast and easy to pull together the images or audio-video clips that you need. --Mike Caputo
Amazon.com Product Description
Capture multimedia using Web Magnet. Web Magnet pulls multimedia files from the Internet to one central location. Search a particular Web site for a topic of interest, or search the entire Internet. Web Magnet will then organize your multimedia files in a thumbnail gallery for easy viewing.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Web Magnet Is Great!,
By Plastic Pixel (Concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Web Magnet (CD-ROM)
This is a very powerful tool for those who like to download images and sound clips. You can add more search engines to it very easily. If you don't want to spend 5 hours surfing for specific images, let Web Magnet do it for you while you do other things. If things are out there Web Magnet will get them for you automatically and in great abundance. There is a short learning curve if you want to use it to your full advantage. You must read the very nice manual that comes with it to get the most out of it. What this program does in essence is acts as a Master search engine that utilizes other search engines to do its work. You can add as many new internet search engines to it as you desire. These all work in parallel to find what you want. They will follow links to other sites. You can configure Web Magnet to go down into a website to as many layers as you desire, within reason of course. It can be configured to ignore slow sites or include them. Minimum image size can be specified. All your download stuff is saved to special folders that you create. You can set it up to use specific file types that are cogent to your search. You can add file types to its file types lists. And now for a little downside stuff. I had to rate this program with 5 stars because it is so very efficient and does what it says it will do, and is extreemly easy to use. However there are a couple of small issues that I feel you who read this should be aware of. Like any search engine you should be very specific in the search text as to what you are looking for and you might have to play around with words a little for it to find what you want. Also like most search engines it will return to you some content that you have no wish for and that has nothing in reality with what you are searching for. In other words it is not perfect. But then nothing is. When I first ran this program my security log showed that along with its normal search module it had another module that jumped to the internet and connected to a site ... . I don't know if this is automatic registration or what it is, but I don't like it doing this behind my back. I immediately configured a rule to block this site from receiving anything from my comuter. This piece of information is for those who care. Otherwise I am delighted ten times over with Web Magnet and would recommend it to anyone. I use a dial up connection and can only imagine how awsome this program would be if connected to a DSL service.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Web Magnet Delivers,
By A Customer
This review is from: Web Magnet (CD-ROM)
Collect you gallery of images, video, sounds and more from the internet. Just hit the magnet, put in the search terms, and spider the internet many levels deep. It collects the images into a handy gallery where you can easily view, delete, and put into a slide show your results. The search can be narrowed by changing the settings; for example, only images over 100 x 100 pixels. By selecting an image the url is highlighted and you can go to that site. Couldn't be easier. This program is fun for even those among us that spend too much time online. Best for fast connections. Or for dial-ups leave it on all night and wake up to your new gallery. Enjoy!
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