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met.a is pretty easy to use
you basically right click and save an image
and it does the rest for you. But there are options to make things easier.
So if you'd like to come now with me
and we'll go to the preferences menu.
I've included an option called "Point-&-Click"
and we're going to enable to option "SFX" (which can be dissabled as you can see)
and its basically a little noise, that noise confirms
the action, because its an invisible process, so I thought a sound effect
would be really useful. And what "Point-&-Click" does
is e.g. if you wanted all of these images,
what you'd normally do is right-click "Save Image As" and then save...etc...
..so, how many are we dealing with (lots)...
So, what you do with "Point-&-Click" enabled is you hold down ⌘/cmd (Mac) or Ctrl (Win)
and you click with the mouse (left button).
(I'm demonstrating the feature)...
..(I'm enjoying myself)...
..say those are the ones I wanted,
what its done is (you may well have guessed) downloaded them.
There they all are, next
search for "paper" and they all show up
(filtering for Images only)...
(filtering for Images only)...
(filtering for Images only)...
..pick any one at random...
(viewing in Inspector to view metadata) (aplication: Preview (OS X))
(viewing in Inspector to view metadata) (aplication: Preview (OS X))
What this allows you to do is to point, click and download
1, 2, 3... I can keep clicking (downloading) the same image
and it'll never ask me if I want to overwrite, it automaticaly
assigns a character, I think its probably a numerical one,
so you can accidentally click the same one, it doesn't matter,
its no problem, it just downloads it by clicking on it.
Like I said, you can disable that sound if that's anoying (sorry deaf crowd)
(illustrating method of disabling SFX)
but then its not so easy to tell if its downloading images,
you can't hear it, there's no confirmation, except for the download notification in the status bar.
So I preffer the sound effect.
Selective Highighting (Thanks Mozilla Team!)
Before FireFox included it, in the original
incarnation of met.a I wanted to include the option
to selectively highlight different parts of text,
that was not possible. But in this new version of
FireFox, having been a feature since version 3,
now at 3.5.6 at the moment, they've enabled it by default.
So, holding down the cmd (⌘) key one's able to select
all the desirable parts of a news story and then
download and image,
like that.
I'd like to thank the FireFox team for that, it saved me a job.
Its really useful! But improving upon that, in Tools/Preferences:
there's an options called "Point-&-Click"
with this enabled I can hold down the cmd (⌘) key and click
and save an image
without having to go to the save as menu
thus saving lots of images at once. But what's really good is that it seems to be
smooth continious process, so I could select this entire paragraph
and I could select all the interesting
bits like "Design Distinction",
"Best in Category",
"potato" and still with the cmd (⌘) key held down
go in for the kill - and download it. So that's one continious process.
Thank you.