presents:

Inquisitor

(The whole World on your HardDisk)

General Information about Frenzy's Inquisitor

"Frenzy's Inquisitor" Short Description:
Inquisitor is a visual Site Ripper/Offline Browser like "wGet"; except that it acts like a "normal" WebBrowser.
Files (Images, Videos, Audio, etc.) can be "visually" selected direct within the displayed Website, and downloaded with 1 mouseclick.

Some features in short:
- "Webbrowser like" tool with some kind of (very) easy download facility (download multiple files at once) with "Link follower" (can download specific filetypes from all forthcomming websites; such like image galleries).
- Link-type Icons (every link contains an icon, so that you could see, which filetype is behind the link; could also turned off).
- FTP-client (copy files directly from one ftp-server to another ftp-server).
- local filemanager, with image preview (ftp-client could contain 2 "local" windows).
- webscanner (scan webservers for existing files/directories or image galeries, or something similar).
- possibility to download all specified files from selected websites.
(as example: choose JPG, and import every selected website into selction, and then click "download".
Every JPG-File from EVERY selected website will be downloaded in the specified destination folder).
- possibility to enhance, or zoom websites (not only the text, also with images !).
- right mouse selction (every link could be selected with the right mouse key; left has normal funtion).
- multiple function-buttons (each button contains different actions with left/right mousekey).
- multiple language support (english and german for now).

In work (not ready yet, but may available in future versions):
-integrated Mail client,
-integrated IRC client.

Inquisitor is NOT a fully functional webbrowser (i think so), and may NOT replace any existing webbrowser !
It's a more like a tool which is used in partnership with any existing webbrowser(s), and will only act like an ordinary webbrowser.

The problem:
I'm a very big DVD-Fan, and i have many DVDs at home. Some DVDs have a very ugly cover, and so i used the internet to download a new DVD-Cover (or made it by myself out of a downloadable movieposter).
If you want all movieposters (or DVD covers) of a movie like John Carpenter's: "Halloween", you have to download 8 images (cause the Halloween series contains 8 parts; for now). With an ordinary webbrowser like
Internet-Explorer, Netscape, or Konqueror, i need up to 2 hours (!); simply to download 8 JPEG images.
Cause i have to "rightclick" each image, specify a destination path, specify a destination filename (maybe there is an existing file, with the same filename, so you first have to rename the old file, and so on...).
So i thougt there must be an easier way to download such images from within a website. For that purpose i found "wget"; a very great tool, but you have to know very well what you want (i mean that you have to know a filename of each file to download, and specify very long command lines).

The soluntion:
So i wrote a program (called "Inquisitor"), where you can LOOK at the prefered webpage, and simply select the desired images directly on the screen. If you have choosen all images (or maybe other files, like MP3, MPG, ZIP, or something else) you want, simply click the button: "download", and all selected files will be downloaded in a specified destination directory.
If there's an existing file, the downloaded file will automatically renamed. It's also possible to download only a specific filetype (or all) from any webpage, where the file(s) are available as links. In short: every link in a website can be choosen, and (after selecting) all files can be downloaded at once.

But Frenzy's Inquisitor is much, much more:
Inquisitor can copy (mirror) a whole website, without (!) changing the HTML-document(s). It also contains a ftp-client,which can also used as a (local) filemanager (like the classic "Norton Commander", or "Midnight Commander" on Linux). You can copy, move, rename local files, or display preview images of your local folders.
Therefore you can copy files via ftp directly from/to 2 ftp-Servers (not very stable yet, but possible); so you can direclty copy files from one ftp-Server to another. And, if you want a local copy of that file, it can also be copied to your local destination folder (path: ftp-server1 > local copy > ftp-server2).
You can "scan" a Webserver for existing files/directorys (if there's a "gallery1", it's also possible that there is a "gallery2"). With the Scanner you can check this, and download files from all websites the scanner found.

It's also possible to download multiple image galleries. As example:
a website (may called: gallery1) contains 50 images. There is a link on this site to another site, which is called: "gallery2". On the second site are also 50 images. If you want all 100 images from both websites, simply turn on the "link folower", and press the "download" button. Every image of the specified filetype (a.e. JPG) willbe downloaded in your destination directory. Simply with 2 (!) mouseclicks.

- Try this with an ordinary browser (>= 100 files in a destination directory);
and it will take you 5 (or more) hours to click each file seperately !
Inquisitor only needs 1-2 minutes (with high speed DSL-Connection)...

So with Inquisitor you can download thousands of images (videos, MP3s, or whatever) in a very easy way, and a very short time.

The very best of all:
Within Inquisitor you have 2 (!) HTML-Pages; so you could display 2 HTML-documents at the same time !
(a little bit like "Opera", but in Inquisitor you could click on a link in one HTML-Site, and open this link in the second window !). This is mainly for websites, which mostly contains links to various image galleries (websites). So the desired website can be viewed, and if it's not that what you're looking for, then select the next site from the 1st page.

-Oh, it's hard to describe; so the best thing is, learning by doing...
In Inquisitor you have 2 HTML-Windows (left/right), and one of them is "active" (green arrow on the right bottom of each HTML-window). If you click on a link in the "inactive" page, the active page will render the HTML-Source, without destroying the inactive page (If you have a Windows, or Linux PC you should realy try it).

It also contains an "Infiltrator Mode", with it you could diplay most (not all) websites which are captured
(i mean such sites, which redirect any ordinary browsers to a completely different website).
Such redirected (captured) sites can be displayed with Inquisitor. And have a look on the: "Kiddie-Mode".
This is a simple child protection. It will NOT load any Sites, which contains violent text, that a child may harm.

-If a Site couldn't displayed in Inquisitor, try to clear the (Domain-) Cache, and reload the site.
If you get error messages (nobody is perfect, including me), or found a site which realy won't displayed you may write me a little eMail with the error-message, and/or the malfunction URL (IF it COULD displayed with another Browser !).

And PLEASE; don't ask such questions as: "How do i unzip a Zipfile", "What is an URL", or "What is the Martix", "the meaning of life" or something like that.

So, that's all for now. I hope you understand my (bad ?) english, and try my "Inquisitor"
(it's a realy, realy great tool, for downloading images/links. And IT'S FREE !).

PS:
To clear this help, simply click the "shredder"-Button !

Frenzy's Inquisitor
(C) 2006 by: Frenzy Softworks
Written by: Frenzy (Jens Timmermann)
eMail: frenzy7@freenet.de
Homepage: inquisitor.sourceforge.net