Gallery Grabber QED 0.22 review
DownloadGallery Grabber QED is a tool for downloading graphic files from a web based picture galleries to your hard-drive.
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Gallery Grabber QED is a tool for downloading graphic files from a web based picture galleries to your hard-drive. It is one of the quick and easy to use download utilities found in the QED Toolkit.
With its easy to use drag and drop interface. Gallery Grabber can automatically determine the type of web gallery that has been dropped, extracting only the gallery images themselves - leaving banners, thumbnails and page design behind.
When more control is needed; Gallery Grabber's automatic behaviour can be overridden, forcing a gallery to be downloaded using a specific method:
* Gallery Page - a single Webpage with large gallery images embedded within the page
* Thumbnail Picture Gallery - a single Webpage with small to medium thumbnail images which lead to larger gallery images
* Thumbnail Page Gallery - a Webpage with small to medium thumbnail images which lead to other Webpages with embedded gallery images.
Gallery Grabber QED has been tested with the following Web Browsers:
- Safari
- Mozilla
- Firefox
- Camino
- Shiira
- IE.
Here are some key features of "Gallery Grabber QED":
General
User friendly, Aqua style interface
Built to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines
Easy to use drag and drop design
Includes built-in Help Book
Saving
Saves gallery image files to a folder on the Desktop
Names the folder after the gallery page title
If two downloaded galleries have the same name, a unique number is added to the second folder's name
Downloading Process
Built in decision making process makes downloading gallery images simple
Automatically determines how the gallery is laid out
Automatic behaviour can be overridden for more experienced users
Only downloads gallery images: ignores gifs, thumbnails, banners, adverts and other page design graphics
Drag and Drop
The Gallery Grabber QED drop area accepts webpage addresses from:
Web Browser's address bar
Web addresses/URLs selected and dragged from a text selection
Links dragged from a webpage and elsewhere
Clipping files such as ".webloc" and ".url" files.
Limitations:
Registration reminder panel.
What's New:
New Features
An optional "Link Editor" window with a text field for editing URLs
Preference options to "float" windows on top of other windows
Drag and drop registration system
Changes
Universal Binary
Completely re-written from the ground-up in Objective-C/Cocoa
Improved styling in accordance with the Apple Style Guide
Speed improvements
Now handles user download quitting spontaneously
Improved web address handling
Fixes
Solves problem where Gallery Grabber QED would hang on the penultimate download on some dual processor machines
Fixes bug that stopped recently downloaded files from being put in the trash until Gallery Grabber QED had been quit.
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