• Program screenshot
• Copyright notice and disclaimer
• About Picture Pump (lyrical introduction)
• About Picture Pump (technical information)
  • System requirements

Ye First Day.

Once upon a time there sat the Author in front of his monitor, drinking coffee (or tea, don't remember exactly), and downloading nice pictures from Internet. The pix came awfully slowly. Worse still, evil webmasters allowed to view them only one-by-one, and only after clicking on stupid banners.

And started Zmey thinking...

Ye Second Day.

And came into his head a bright thought: can't he open those pictures not one-by-one, but several at once, and without clicking on banners, but right away?

And drank he his coffee, and turned his sharp eyes to the address string of his browser. And saw he the following garbage (real addresses changed to irreal):

http://www.webserver.com/zoom.asp?id=123.

And entered he yon address into his browser, changing the last number to another one; and saw he a picture, and the picture was nice, and had he not clicked on any stupid banners.

Ye Third Day.

The joy went off, and became Zmey possessed by onerous thoughts. For entering address strings manually was too dull; and dull it was to click the pictures with the right mouse button, and to save them to the hard drive... Besides those troubles, refused the cunning browser to download more than two pictures simultaneously! And tried Zmey to use his proven Teleport Pro; but were in vain his efforts, for filled up Teleport his disk with thumbnails, banners and repellent ads, but didn't get any pictures...

Again started Zmey thinking...

Ye Fourth Day.

And decided Zmey to write the Program, and the Program should download pictures (like Teleport Pro does it), and it should change numbers in the address string automatically, and need it not save the pages where the pictures are placed, for nobody needs them pages when there are pictures.

And sat he down to write It.

Ye Fifth Day.

Wrote.

Ye Sixth Day.

Wrote.

Ye Seventh Day.

Wrote.

Ye Eighth Day.

Wrote.

Ye Nineth Day.

Wrote.

Ye ....teenth Day.

Written!

And was the Program useful, multithreaded, and flexible. And pumped It pictures fast; and wrote It to his hard disk of pictures 80 megasacks in two days. And decided Zmey that it is good, and hath made It freeware, and hath built a site for those who wanted It, so that they could download this Miracle and use It when they need It...

Picture Pump is a powerful automated picture files retriever. It has the following features:

• Multithreaded design (up to five simultaneously working threads);
• Flexible and easy-to-use configuration dialogues;
• Ability to work through a proxy server;
• It automatically detects sudden disconnections from the Internet;
• It saves the current state and configuration in project files, and can then resume the download from the last saved point;
• You can run several copies of the program at one time;
• You can choose the language of the program's interface (English or Russian);
• You can exclude certain pictures and/or HTML pages (e.g. banners and ads) from being downloaded;
• Only pictures are saved to disk; pages that contain them are not saved (and you get more free space as result);
• Size of the program is very small (about 200 Kbytes - ridiculously small compared to modern fat-dripping applications);
• The program needs no external modules and/or libraries to run properly (except standard libraries that are part of the operating system);
• It need not be installed into system to run properly;
• It's free!

System Requirements:

• Windows 95/98/ME/XP, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000. It is advisable (but not at all obligatory) that you have Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher installed - in this case Picture Pump can detect connection to Internet more reliably.
• 16 Mb RAM (the more the better - as usual).
• Connection to the Internet (via a modem or a local area network).
• Some free space on your disks to store pictures :)