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Activate your product

The product activation area is where you enter a product license key and transform your product from a trial version into a full version. When you activate your product, this area will no longer appear and you will become the licensed owner of the full version.
To obtain a product license and activate [...]

Trial Version and Product Activation

Web Image Collector 2006 is a fully featured product limited to a 15 day trial. If you decide that you like WIC and want to use it beyond the trial period, you must activate your copy of WIC.
To activate WIC, you must first purchase a product license. After [...]

Trial Version and Product Activation

Newsgroup Image Collector is a fully featured product limited to a 15 day trial. If you decide that you like NIC and want to use it beyond the trial period, you must activate your copy of NIC.
To activate NIC, you must first purchase a product license. After [...]

Add a New Image Collection

Select your search type

This page lets you control where WIC searchs for images. The following options are available.
Search for images at the web site
This option lets you specify a web address (URL) to a web site or a page within a web site. Images found on that web site [...]

Add a New Image Collection

Newgroup server

At the first page of the New Collection Wizard, you have the news server configuration. Here is where you must enter your newsgroup server information.
Server
This is the newsgroup server host name. This can be either an IP address like 192.168.0.1 or a name like newsgroups.bellsouth.net
Login name
This is the [...]

Sites that do not work at all
Some websites are not accessible by WIC such as Sony Image station or Yahoo groups. These sites require special programming for the best download experience, and we are currently working on these items.
The trouble behind most non working sites can be:
A complex membership login process
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The article date filter gives you control over what articles to scan for images. When articles are pulled from a newsgroup, the posting date is inspected and compared to the start date in the filter. Articles that are older than the start date will be ignored while others will be scanned for images.

Groups
These [...]

Yes, we greatly appreciate everyone who links to or distributes Web Image Collector!
To find out more, please click on the link.
How to promote and distribute WIC

Yes, NIC can be configured to use a proxy.
Please click here to learn how to configure NIC to use a proxy.

Yes, WIC can be configured to use a proxy.
Please click here to learn how to configure WIC to use a proxy.