Typical Use

After you have used Nici a couple of times, a common way to use Nici is:

• Start Nici and go to the History page . On the History page {The history page lists directory pages that have previously been downloaded by the Nici-Quick strategy. More }, use the Download again task to download some directory pages {The Nici-Quick download strategy classifies a web-page as a Directory page if it contains many links to picture pages. Directory pages are often updated each day with new links and can be used to add new picture pages to the download line. More }.
  
  
• As each directory page finishes downloading, click on it, and go to the links view {The links view shows all the links that Nici found in the page. The links view is used to add new pages to the download line More } or source view {The source view shows the page like a web-browser. Clicking on links adds new pages to the download line. More } . Click on 5-10 or 100 links from each directory page. More
  
  
• Come back in 30 minutes and look through a stack of pictures, or spend the time in looking at pictures you have not yet seen, or pictures you gave a high page rank {Page rank is a rating out of 10 for the page. Nici guesses a pages rank if one is not supplied. More }. More