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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

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

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 […]

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

Newsgroup Image Collector supports the following command line parameters:
-start anyCollectionName
The start parameter will begin the collection process for the specified collection. This can help you automate the process of collecting images on a scheduled basis.
Example usage:
c:\Program Files\DataFire Technologies INC\NIC\bin\NIC.exe -start anyCollectionName
Tip:
Newsgroup Image Collector has a date filter dialog box that appears when collections are […]

Delete Files Wizard

The delete files wizard shows all files and folders in the base directory and lets you select which files and folders to delete. You can select individual files, folders or all items in the display.

Select files to delete

The display shows a tree with files and folders, each with a checkbox for selection. […]

Edit an Image Collection

Newgroup server

This is the newsgroup server information page where you can modify the server address and login 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 news server account user name. If the news server […]

Eliminating Thumbnails And Small Images

Newsgroup Image Collector can be configured using advanced settings to skip images that are too small such as thumbnail images. These images are usually the small version of the image that you want to download. In some cases NIC will download both the thumbnail and the full size image […]

Files to Send

This area will send selected files as attachments via email. This feature is useful for sharing files with friends in a quick and easy method.
This initial page shows the selected files and the total size of all the listed files. These files will be sent as attachments to an email so […]