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	APicviewer Freeware v5.0.x

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Thank you for trying this program.
 
Apicviewer Freeware / automatically search, download and display Pictures Videos Sounds

  - Ideal for wav, mp3, midi, mpeg, mpg, mov , qt, rm , viv, avi, gif, jpeg, zip, rar...files 
  - Thumbnail pictures gallery 
  - Images timer viewer 
  - Automatic multi-part reconstruction 
  - Duplicate file elimination 
  - E-mail send
  - Mime/UUencode decoding 
  - Keyword/expression searching 

Award-winning Freeware: Zdnet

ApicViewer will search the Usenet Newsgroups that you select, downloads and displays files
with high quality standard. APicViewer lets you see files as they download and browse them 
off-line. Any unwanted pictures, videos and sounds can be deleted. Header information 
including file size, dimensions, newsgroup,author, subject, etc, is available before 
each download. 

APicviewer avoids redundant searching and duplicate downloading, saving you time and bandwidth. 
ApicViewer lets your computer grab Usenet files while you are surfing the net. If you haven't 
seem them before, you will not believe the pictures, videos and sounds you can find on the 
newsgroups. There is a newsgroup for everyone's interest. There is little that you can think 
of that does not have at least one related newsgroup. 

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To view multimedia files, you need to install: Windows Media player 6.4.07 (or higher) 
and RealPlayer 6.0 (or higher)

  - Windows Media player (6.4.07 or higher) Freeware: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer 

  - RealPlayer (6.0 or higher) Freeware download://www.real.com/welcome

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Video format supported

  1 - Windows Media player 6.4.07 (or higher)

         - Movie files MPEG: .mpeg .mpg .m1v .mp2 .mpa .mpe

         - Audio files: .wav .snd .au .aif .aifc .aiff .wma .mp3

         - Midi files: .mid .rmi .midi

         - Media playlist: .asx .wax .m3u .wvx

         - Windows Media files: .asf .wm .wma .wmv

         - QuickTime files: .mov .qt

           Freeware download: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer

 

  2 - RealPlayer 6.0 (or higher)

         - Video files: .avi

         - Realplayer files: .rm

         - Vivo media files: .viv

           Freeware download: http://www.real.com/welcome


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Other format supported

  1 - WinRAR

        - Rar files: .rar .r01 .r02 ...

          Shareware download: http://www.rarsoft.com/

 

  2 - WINZIP

        - Winzip files: .zip

          Shareware download: http://www.winzip.com


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To install the program, unzip the files to a folder of your choice.
Then run Setup.exe.


APicViewer needs:
1. Microsoft Internet Explorer 4/5 or higher
2. Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000
3. Minimum recommended resolution of 800*600 & 256 colors

Visual Basic 5 RunTime Files can be obtained at:
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win95/dll
The current filename is: vb500a.zip


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STATUS OF THE PROGRAM:

FREEWARE
Free distribution for FTP sites and CD-ROM Distributors
There are no restrictions on the distribution of APicViewer.

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To contact the author or to get the last version, send e-mail to 
apicviewer@aadsoft.com

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