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Browse, read, and search the Internet faster than ever before, even if you have a broadband connection, or not! Faster than tabbed browsers, offline readers, and Internet accelerators! Whenever you click a link in WebSpeedReader to download a web page, that page downloads in the background automatically while you continue reading the current document. You can click on 1 link after another, then when you are ready to go to the next page, simply select Next Document from the menu, or press the F12 key, or click on the rightmost toolbar button (
), and, instantly, the next page is loaded, images and all. You will find that this method of browsing and reading web pages is much faster and more convenient than using any of the other major browsers, including browsers that use tabs. Go to a page of headlines, and click 1 link after another, then press the F12 key to read or scan document after document—instantly. Display a page of search results, click on 1 link after another that interests you, then look at each page quickly and easily. There is no need to click a link, wait for the page to download to see 1 search result, and the go back to the search page and click on another link, and so on. Or how about those articles that are divided into sections, forcing you to click for each section and wait for it to download. With WebSpeedReader, you just click all of the links at once, then read 1 page after another without any waiting at all. Almost every other browser that does multiple downloads uses tabs and requires you to shift-click links that you want downloaded in separate windows. Offline readers require you to download entire sites, most of which you will not read, and reading the content offline is still not as fast as WebSpeedReader, since the pages are already loaded in memory, and sequenced, so that each page can be accessed instantly. Try it out, you will truly be amazed at how fast you can browse, read, or search web pages with WebSpeedReader.
Schedule Pages - Download web pages according to the day and date automatically. Download specific pages every day, every weekday, every Monday, every 2nd Friday of the month, or biweekly, for instance, with 1 click. You can also have any number of home pages, as many as you like, that will be downloaded every time you start WebSpeedReader. Each page is loaded in a separate browser window for instant access! Although WebSpeedReader does use multiple windows, it doesn't clutter the taskbar. There is only 1 entry for WebSpeedReader on the taskbar no matter how many windows are loaded, and WebSpeedReader uses far less memory than the equivalent number of Internet Explorer windows. In fact, as you read each page, WebSpeedReader re-uses those windows over and over again, thus, conserving even more memory. There is also a toolbar and menu option to have pages download in the same window, if you want, or you can load any page into Internet Explorer with 1 click. WebSpeedReader limits the number of windows used, which you can specify (Menu: ). However, even with only a few windows open, you still don't have to wait for pages to download, even if you have hundreds of pages scheduled for downloading. Why? Because WebSpeedReader only downloads the pages necessary to fill the number of windows that you specify (default: 25). The rest of your scheduled pages or clicked links are stored in a queue. As you read each document, WebSpeedReader downloads the next page to replace the just-read document. This removes any restrictions on the number of scheduled pages or clicked links, even if you have a slow connection and a small amount of memory! Furthermore, you can get started reading sooner, since they are fewer pages downloaded initially.
WebSpeedReader has a complete bookmark manager for storing and managing Favorites that is much more powerful than Internet Explorer's awkward file-based system. To view Favorites, select | F | F6. Benefits of the new system include:
- WebSpeedReader will automatically import your Favorites in its bookmark manager when started for the first time.
- Being able to log onto password-protected sites automatically, without even being presented with a dialog box.
- Automate any form submission with a simple click.
- Store much more information with each Favorite, including document keywords, description, notes, scheduling information, and adding to other categories, such as Quick Links.
- Being able to quickly see a subset of your Favorites by filtering them. Simply type some letters in the filter box in the Favorites form, and it will display only those links that have the typed letters in the title, URL, or keywords. You can also do this from the sidebar.
- Click on any number of links to download in the background.
- Click on any folder to download all links in that folder.
- CTRL + click a folder to download all links in that folder and all subfolders.
- Create any number of home pages. Note: You can also prevent the downloading of home pages by pressing the Shift key when WebSpeedReader starts to load, in which case it loads a blank page.
- Schedule any page much easier with the new Add to Favorites form. You can schedule any existing links by selecting them in the Favorites form, and choosing Edit.
- Edit or delete any Favorite that is currently displayed directly from the toolbar—no need to open any forms. In fact, you can download a whole folder of links by clicking on a folder in the Favorites menu, then look at each one in the browser. If you don't want that Favorite, just delete it, and you will automatically move to the next document. If you want to keep it, just select the next document.
- Quick Folders can be displayed in the sidebar. Any folder in your Favorites can be designated as a Quick Folder, and because it is simply a Favorites folder, you can organize, add, or delete links simply by choosing Organize Favorites. 1 click downloads all links in that folder.
Home Pages - Set any number of pages as home pages, which are loaded automatically at startup.
Read the Quick Help and the Help documents for complete information on how to use this new power tool!
Sidebar
WebSpeedReader's sidebar has many uses. It displays the Links Bar and the Windows Bar. The sidebar can be displayed or hidden by checking or unchecking ( the menu. The Links Bar shows all of the links that make up the links bar in Internet Explorer. You can add additional links by checking Quick Links in the Add to Favorites form, or editing any Favorite link by loading the Favorites bookmark manager (), selecting the desired links, then selecting Edit. The Windows Bar shows all open windows. Black entries indicate the beginning of a download; blue entries indicate fully downloaded sites, and red entries are documents that have already been read. The current window is the selected entry. Click on any link to go to the window immediately.
Document and Window Navigation
Navigate using the numeric keypad. The numeric keypad isn't very useful in a browser. Now you can use it to page down, page up, move to the next or previous document. Press 0 to page down, press the . (decimal) key to go to the next document. (1 pages up, and 2 scrolls the document to the top, 3 scrolls the document to the bottom.) This means you can read 1 document after another simply by using your index and middle fingers. Try it out! Navigation has never been easier! Pressing 7 will download the home page of the current web site in the background. No need to click in the address bar, and erase everything except the domain to go to the home page of any site. Furthermore, you can still use the keys for filling out forms or typing anything else.
Mouse Commands - Navigate better using the mouse. Using only the mouse, you can
Scroll 1 page at a time, up or down.
Scroll a few lines up or down.
Go to the top of the document.
Go to the bottom of the document.
Click links to download in the background.
Click links to download in the current window.
Auto-scroll the document up or down or even across, at any speed.
Move to the next document.
Select text or part of the document and you can see its source code, search the text using Google, or look up the words in a dictionary, thesaurus, or encyclopedias, or even highlight the terms. You can also add it to the current note. If the selected text is an URL, then you can open it directly from the context menu.
In addition, you have complete access to Internet Explorer's full context menus.
Headings - Display all of the headings of most documents in the sidebar for quick navigation to any part of the document, or to get a quick overview.
Viewing Options
Option to zoom pages to any size for better readability.
Increase Image Sizes - Increase the size of all images on a document, including all frames, to any size that you want. Excellent feature for those of you who have high-resolution monitors.
Full-Screen Mode - Press F11 to toggle full-screen mode on and off.
Searching
Instant access to the major search engines. WebSpeedReader has a special page with all of the major search engines, including Google. (See screen shot below.) You can enter search terms in a single box, then click as many search engines as you want. Each search engine's results will download in a separate browser window. You can click on each link in the results, and each one will download in the background, while you continue reading results. Then when you are ready to see those results they will appear instantly with the click of a button. Also includes special searches, such as the Microsoft site, legal search, and stock information searches. 50+ search engines in all.
- Searching and Highlighting - You can search using Google or Vivisimo directly from the sidebar—search results download in the background. Thus you can search and keep reading at the same time. You can highlight any text on any document to quickly find what you are looking for. From the sidebar, you can search and highlight the same terms quickly and easily. You can also highlight more than 1 term or phrase at the same time. Here's an example of highlighting 2 presidents on the same page with just 1 command: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were two of the greatest presidents of the United States.
Schedule searches. Monitor the web for any topic that you desire by scheduling search URLs using any search engine. All you have to do is use your favorite search engine (access many of them instantly, using WebSpeedReader's custom search page), go to the page with the search results, and schedule the resulting URL to download periodically. You can save any number of search queries like this, and monitor any number of topics without limit. You can even schedule a search using more than 1 search engine for more comprehensive results.
Search using the Address Box - You can search using any of 16 search engines directly from the address bar. By typing the 1st letter of the search engine followed by a space or "/", then your search terms, your terms will be searched using that engine. If a space separates the initial letter and your search terms, the results will download in the current window. If you typed a forward slash (/), then the results will download in a background page, allowing you to continue reading the current document.
These are the search engines currently available:
| 1 | Firstgov | Search for United States government information. |
| 9 | A9 | Amazon's new A9 search engines that also searches books. |
| a | Answers | Get references. |
| d | Dogpile | A good meta-search engine. |
| e | Ebay | Search the biggest auction site. |
| f | Froogle | Google's comparison shopping service. |
| g | Google | Google - 'nuff said. |
| i | Internet Movie Database | Search here to find out anything about movies, actors, actresses, etc. |
| j | Ask Jeeves | Another good search engine. |
| l | Law | Search for things legal using Findlaw. |
| m | MSN | Microsoft's search engine. |
| n | News | Search Google news. |
| o | Find Articles | LookSmart's search engine for articles. |
| p | Pictures | Search for images using Google. |
| v | Vivisimo | This search engine clusters search results into categories. |
| w | Wikipedia | An excellent encyclopedia. |
| y | Yahoo | Another great search engine. |
Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Encyclopedias - You can look up any highlighted term in the dictionary, thesaurus, or encyclopedia. You can also type any terms in the sidebar to download the results in the background.
Forms
Submit Forms with 1 Click or Log onto password-protected sites automatically - With Add to Favorites, you can capture most form submissions, and then submit them with the click of a bookmark. Thus, you can log onto any site automatically without even a prompt from a dialog box.
Fill in Form Fields by Right-Clicking - Right-click any textbox and select information stored in a text file, which can be easily editing from within WebSpeedReader. Each line of the text file represents a selection in the context menu. You can even maintain aliases that you can enter on forms to maintain your privacy.
Fill Forms with 1 click - Click the Fill Form toolbar button to fill in any forms on the current document from information that you saved earlier. You can save only the data that you want. You can also use different identities with different sites, because the form data is saved with the domain name, but it can also fill in forms on new sites.
Clear any form field and set focus to it by double-clicking it.
Reset all forms on the current document with 1 click.
Easily copy any note to any form field.
- RSS and OPML Files - Read RSS feeds natively, without the need to use a specialized reader! Just download it like any other web page. Add it to your Favorites; schedule it as you can with any web page in WebSpeedReader. RSS feeds download much faster, and are more readable than most web pages. Almost every major news site and blogger has these files. RSS files are XML files; these links are frequently displayed by this image:
. Just click the link to download the file and read it just like any other web page. You will see how much faster they download compared to most web pages on the Internet! OPML files are frequently used to list other RSS sources. WebSpeedReader can read these files just like any other page. - Notes - Write notes in the sidebar's notepad. Quickly add the date, title, or URL to any note. Select text in the main web page and add it to the current note. Print the note. Copy the note to the clipboard with 1 click. Show or hide note links. Use notes to copy multiple items that you can then paste into another program. Easily copy any note to any form field.
Check Links - Check your Favorite links to verify them. The links are displayed on a web page that has the following information:
Title of document.
URL of document.
Document Description - this can be either the description that the author of the page provided and/or any description you added to the Favorites entry.
Document Keywords - Both the description and keywords are taken from the document when you save it as a Favorite, but you can add to it as well.
Notes - any notes that you add to a Favorite will be displayed. Description, keywords, and notes can help you to decide whether to delete the link or not. If there is no description, keywords, and/or notes associated with the Favorite, then these fields will not be displayed.
Number of Visits.
Last Time Visited - Both number of visits and last time visited will be useful to help you decide if you want to delete it or not.
Status when last checked - this is useful for checking if the bad status is temporary or more permanent.
Delete - this link is displayed with each Favorite. Click this link to delete the Favorite right there and then. You can undelete the link by opening the Organize Favorites forms, and moving it out of the Delete folder. All deleted links will appear in this folder, but they will be permanently deleted once WebSpeedReader is closed.
In addition, WebSpeedReader will automatically delete any Favorites that point to local files on your computer that do not exist, and will list those deletions at the bottom of the page. When the link checking is finished, Show All Links and Show Questionable Links will be displayed in the sidebar, which, by clicking one or other, allows you to see all of the links or just the questionable ones.
Default Browser - By making WebSpeedReader the default browser, you can click on any number of links in your mail program (if your mail client uses the default browser to launch links) or Windows Explorer, or any other program that uses the default browser, and if WebSpeedReader is already loaded, it will accept those links in the background, and download them while you continue to read your mail, or whatever else you're doing. No need to switch back and forth. WebSpeedReader flashes its window each time it accepts a link that you clicked, to give you feedback that WebSpeedReader has handled it. When you are done, switch to WebSpeedReader to read all of the pages that you selected, one after the other, with no waiting. If WebSpeedReader is not already running when you click the first link, then that first click will launch WebSpeedReader and Windows will give it focus. Just minimize WebSpeedReader to continue reading your mail. WebSpeedReader will handle all subsequent links in the background, without taking the focus away from your current application.
Prevents pop-up and pop-under ads that you didn't click automatically! You don't have to maintain any lists, or do anything at all. This feature is completely automatic. Any pop-ups or pop-under windows that you clicked will download in the background. Note, however, that, for now, WebSpeedReader cannot prevent popups that are created by HTML Dialog boxes because Microsoft does not provide a way to trap these events. However, this is probably going to change with Microsoft's Windows XP Service Pack 2, due out in September of this year. These popups can also be prevented by turning scripting off, but doing so, prevents many websites from functioning or displaying properly.
Records of saved files stored in a database for easy retrieval and maintenance—great for doing research! You can save files on your hard disk that are automatically recorded in a database. Each record includes the date of download, document title, original URL, and filename. You can view these records in a single web page. Clicking on the original URL will download the web page from the original site; clicking on the filename will load the document form your hard drive. Each record also includes a Delete link, that deletes both the record and the file for easy maintenance.
Advertise your website, blog, or business for free. WebSpeedReader now allows you to create your own user-agent string, which is part of the header that is submitted to web servers that you visit. This string is recorded in web logs at every site you visit. When people, who have websites look through their logs, they'll see your message or the URL to your website or blog. You can also add a memorable quote, or even your name.
Translate, Whois, and the WayBack Machine - Quickly translate pages into other languages, find out about a domain name, or find out the history of any site with 1 menu click.
Saves all URLs of unread web pages. Sometimes you download too many pages to read, and realize you don't have the time to finish them. When you quit WebSpeedReader, it will save all of the URLs that you haven't read, automatically. To read those pages, when you load WebSpeedReader again, select OpenLinks - Finish Last Session from the menu.
View the source of any web page in beautiful, color-coded format, which includes ALL FRAMES! You can also view the source code of ALL style sheets for a given page, including imported, external, and embedded style sheets, and including all frames, if the page has frames. A great way to learn styles, and to know how webmasters achieve their visual effects.
History, viewable on a single web page, and you can opt not to save a history list. Each record is displayed in the History document with more information, including the title, URL, document keywords, document description. Furthermore, each history entry is unique. If you go to a website many times, only 1 entry is stored for that site, but the date is updated to the date that you viewed it. Furthermore, you can sort the list by date visited, domain, number of visits and by title. The sidebar displays the sections so that you can quickly go to that part of the history file. So if you sorted the list by domain, and you want to see all of your visits to yahoo.com, just click on yahoo in the sidebar to instantly go to that section of the history.
No ads, adware, spyware, or anything else to intrude on your privacy in WebSpeedReader, and for the 1st 30 days, there isn't even a screen to prompt you to buy. This is so you can try WebSpeedReader without any hassles at all.
When you purchase WebSpeedReader, you will be entitled to all upgrades free of charge! You can decide when to upgrade by checking out What's New in WebSpeedReader, which can be accessed anytime in WebSpeedReader by clicking on What's New under the Help menu. You can download upgrades in less than a minute on a 50K connection, without the need to close any programs except for WebSpeedReader itself, without having to reboot, and even without having to close your Internet connection!
Prevents all script error dialog boxes automatically. Oftentimes, you'll come across web sites that have script errors, then you are presented with a dialog box, asking you if you want to debug it. The problem is, since these pages have been authored by someone else, and the pages reside on that person's server, it doesn't do YOU any good to debug it. Therefore, WebSpeedReader suppresses all of these dialog boxes. If you are authoring a web page, then just load the page in another browser to check for errors. Please note, however, that WebSpeedReader, or any other browser for that matter, does not nor can not prevent script errors--only the author of that page can do this--so if there are errors on the page, then the page may not display properly. In any case, there is nothing that you, the reader, can do about it, so these dialog boxes are suppressed in WebSpeedReader.
Because WebSpeedReader uses Internet Explorer 5.5 or above, it has most of the qualities of Internet Explorer.
The main purpose of WebSpeedReader is to make it the ultimate reading and research tool on the Internet. Although the Internet has a wealth of information and the widest selection of reading materials, the Internet is neither as easy nor as convenient as it could be to use. If you spend any amount of time reading and researching on the Internet, WebSpeedReader will save you a lot of time, and make accessing the Internet much more convenient.
WebSpeedReader has many other advantages. Look at the screen shots below, or read the complete tutorial at http://thisMatter.com/WebSpeedReader/WebSpeedReader.htm.
You will truly be surprised at the convenience and speed of WebSpeedReader!
WebSpeedReader requires Windows 98 or above and Internet Explorer 5.0 or above.
Screen Shots of WebSpeedReader
In the 1st screenshot, you can see the Help document with the table of contents in the sidebar. Click on any heading in the sidebar to go to that topic in the Help. Note the sidebar.
- At the top is a textbox that can be used for searching, filtering, or highlighting. Enter anything in the textbox and by clicking the appropriate tabs to the right of the textbox, you can search in Google or Vivisimo, show all Favorites or all history entries with the characters in the textbox displayed in the sidebar, or you can highlight it in the current and all documents until you turn it off. Search results download in the background, so that you can continue reading the current page. Filtering can display any Favorites that has specific characters in the keywords, title, or URL in the sidebar immediately. Thus, for example, you can display any folder, simply by typing in the folder name. You can right-click any Favorites link, and edit or delete the Favorite from the context menu. You can also filter your history list, if you maintain one, and you can display all scheduled pages, or Quick Links in the sidebar.
- On the right side of the second toolbar at the top are a number of tabs that you can select. Note that the Headings or Sections tab (§) is selected. Right now, it is showing all of the headings of the Help document in outline mode, with lower headings more indented, allowing you to quickly access any section of Help simply by clicking on the appropriate heading in the sidebar. However, this tab will display the headings of ANY document that is displayed in the current browser window! This is a very effective way to not only get an overview of a long document, but to also move to any heading of that document INSTANTLY!
- Beside the Sections tab, you see the Check Links tab (√), denoted by the checkmark. By selecting this tab, you can check whether your Favorite links are still good or not. If there not, you'll be able to readily delete it.
- The ∞ tab displays all of your Quick Links, or click the ¸ tab to display all scheduled pages. In addition to being able to edit or delete a link from the context menu, you can also remove it from Quick Links or unschedule it.
- The W tab displays all of the open windows in WebSpeedReader. You can go to any window by clicking on it. Note, that even though the Sections tab is displayed, you can still see the Windows section below it. In this situation, if you click on any window in the sidebar, that document will be displayed, and the Sections tab will automatically show all of the headings for that document.
Searching for something? WebSpeedReader makes it easier and more convenient than ever. Look at the screen shot below. You will see an input box where you type your search terms, then click on any or all of the search engine links below. The results of each search engine that you click will download in the background, then you click on Next () on the toolbar or the menu, to see the results. When you do, click on each link that interests you, one right after another, and each one will download in the background while you keep reading. Then, when you are ready to move on, just select Next to see the next document INSTANTLY! This special search page will be greatly expanded in the future, and you can access it instantly at any time by clicking on the search toolbar button (
).
Full-featured Bookmark Manager - With this form, you can download any number of links at 1 time, and you can organize Favorites from the same form.
Add, Edit Favorites - With this form, you can both edit and save Favorites. Note that you can edit more than 1 record at a time. You can save more information, and schedule pages directly on this form.
Want to view the HTML source code? Why use Internet Explorer's clunky Notepad, when you can view the source code in full color! Below is an example. The header is set against a yellow background, all script code is in red, styles are in maroon, HTML tags are in blue, and the text is in black. This has just been updated, now showing ALL FRAMES, and COOKIES associated with each document!
This is just a sample of the many benefits of WebSpeedReader! And because WebSpeedReader uses Internet Explorer as its base, it has most of the capabilities of Internet Explorer. If your time is worth anything at all, then you will appreciate the utility of WebSpeedReader. Once you use it, you'll wonder how you could ever read Web pages in any other way!
