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MetaProducts Inquiry makes Internet research a snap! Collect, organize and view information from the Web on your terms, quickly and easily. A Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista application, it is fully integrated with Microsoft Internet Explorer and is also available as a standalone application. Inquiry is also available from the right-click context menu in Mozilla, Netscape, FireFox and Opera browsers. Easy to use |  |
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MetaProducts Inquiry makes Internet research a snap! Collect, organize and view information from the Web on your terms, quickly and easily. A Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista application, it is fully integrated with Microsoft Internet Explorer and is also available as a standalone application.
Inquiry is also available from the right-click context menu in Mozilla, Netscape, FireFox and Opera browsers.
Easy to use
Inquiry stores
various Web files: entire web pages, selected text
and images, Shockwave Flash clips and many others.
It can also import documents from your MSIE
Favorites and export them to various formats to
share with friends and colleagues. Forget cumbersome open
and close dialog boxes. Managing your stored pages
is quick and easy.
Simple to store
You
access Inquiry simply by clicking a button on
the MS Internet Explorer toolbar or Inquiry Sidebar.
A single click saves the page you are
currently browsing, or your selected text or images.
You can choose to display or hide the
Inquiry Sidebar by selecting the Internet Explorer Toolbars
menu entry from the View menu and then
selecting Inquiry Bar.
Besides that you can drag-and-drop a selection of a Web page to either save the selection or to store all pages linked to the selection.
Fast storing
Inquiry stores
pages much faster than the regular Internet Explorer
Save As feature.
Instant search
Inquiry allows you
to quickly search in all collected pages and
displays the search results in a separate tree
folder, allowing you to view them later or
even save them in a separate folder for
future use. It is also easy to organize
your stored items as you wish, divide them
by theme and purpose, sort in the order
you need using drag & drop or using
standard ordering methods.
Keep important pages forever
Information
stored in Inquiry never expires or disappears. Even
if the Web site stops responding or the
contents change, you will be able to browse
the pages just as they were stored originally.
You can also save web sites for offline browsing with the help of the AutoSave mode - when it is enabled, all pages you browse will be automatically stored in a special folder in Inquiry.
Easily share collected data
Using
Inquiry you can email stored pages with a
couple of clicks. It is easy to convert
a page into a convenient format, such as
HTML Help file or MHT Archive (to reduce
the file size,) Microsoft Word or to a
small executable file that includes a compact IE-based
browsing application.
For both professional and novice users
Inquiry is sophisticated enough to meet the needs
of professional researchers, yet simple enough for novice
users. Researchers, lawyers, writers, scholars, professors, students or
just the casual shopper will all find Inquiry
just the tool they need to collect, store
and manage any type of Internet information.
Inquiry eliminates the concern that information on the Internet today will be gone tomorrow ï¿ it puts control of the Internet files in your hands.
Teachers, Researchers and Writers
Do you study remotely
and need to have all necessary information on
your local computer? Inquiry will help you gather
Internet pages and articles for your assignments and
work with them offline. Using Inquiry, you can
save all citation and reference information, and design
your own reference styles to be stored with
each document.
Inquiry can help compare products and prepare reports and presentations.
Shoppers
Are you searching
for the best price of a product on
the Internet? Catalog and store all the pages
you have found and review them later at
your leisure.
Sales, Marketing and Public Relations professionals
Inquiry makes it easy to save and organize
Web site information on competitive products and services.
Legal Professionals
Using Inquiry, you can organize and
store information from government sites as well as
research sites such as Westlaw and Lexis.
Students
Are you studying for a test or doing
research for one of your classes? Inquiry provides
a fast and easy way to find, save
and analyze the information you need--when you need
it.
If you need a fast and easy way to browse, save and analyze the information on the Internet then MetaProducts Inquiry is for you.
Inquiry Professional Edition features:
- Save citation and reference information, and design your own reference styles to be stored with each document.
- Print multiple saved pages with a single command.
- Customize page icons list.
- Customizable scripts to pre-process Web pages before they get saved.
- Customizable delimiter when appending Web pages.
Standard features
Collect Information
When you
browse web sites, you can easily store information
on the screen - either the whole web
page or a selection on it.
- You can store all kinds of web pages, images and Shockwave Flash files.
- The Saved Pages folder allows you to save a page with just one click.
- A convenient toolbar button adds the page to one of the ten most-used folders.
- You can also use drag-and-drop and the right-click context menu to store a page.
- Drag a link to the Inquiry Band to download and save the page automatically.
- Drag a selection with links to download and store all pages linked to the selection.
- You can append the current page contents or a selection on the page to another page.
- Use the Auto Save button to automatically store all pages you browse to a special folder.
- Inquiry keeps all collected information in compressed files saving disk space.
Manage Storage
Inquiry
lets you organize pages to find information fast.
- Create an unlimited number of folders and subfolders to organize stored pages.
- Mark each item to find it easily.
- Sort pages within folders by URL, Title, Date or manually.
- Add custom comments, keywords and other information to each page.
- Edit pages visually to remove unwanted banners, menus, etc.
- Search within saved pages for keywords.
- View saved pages with a single click.
- Copy, move, delete or rename pages.
- Use icons to mark stored pages.
Convenience
We do our best to design
Inquiry to be comfortable and appealing.
- Click a folder to see its visual representation in the browser.
- Inquiry stores screenshots of each stored page to help you preview the pages on a single screen or when you hover your mouse over them.
- There is a standalone Inquiry application included in case you prefer a browser other than MS Internet Explorer.
Enhance your browser
Most
modern browsers keep all pages you view in
their cache. This makes browsing faster and you
can sometimes view Web pages offline.
However the default browser cache is limited and inconvenient:
- You cannot tell the browser which pages to keep and which to discard. The disk space you allow for the cache is not used optimally.
- You cannot "freeze" certain pages and when the cache is out of disk space, many pages will be erased automatically.
- If you view some pages frequently, the previous page copy will be overwritten by the new one. So if the page contained valuable information in the past, it will be lost.
- You cannot organize your cache by folders, use full-text search, highlight found words, etc.
Inquiry gives you an easy workaround for all the above issues.
File | Save as
MetaProducts Inquiry goes farther than the standard HTML and MHT formats if you want to save a page to disk or share it with a friend. You can save a single page or a set of pages to a variety of file formats. You can backup and restore the saved pages to prevent information loss in case of a system crash or virus.
Edit
pages
A Web browser can be used only
to display Web pages. Even if a page
is being saved in the browser cache, there
is no way to edit it, remove banners
or add your comments. Inquiry has a fully-featured
visual Web page editor that allows you to
change the look and contents of the saved
pages according to your needs.
Organize your work
Using a familiar Folder Tree, you can create
and organize your folders using simple Windows Explorer-type
menu commands, and then move your saved pages
from one folder to another using drag-and-drop.
Auto-Save
Save entire Web sites using Inquiryï¿s Auto-Save feature.
Once AutoSave is enabled, every page you browse
will be automatically saved in a special folder
called ï¿AutoSaveï¿ for later viewing or offline browsing.
Information Exchange
You can share the information stored
in Inquiry with others.
- Export a page or a whole folder to HTML Help (CHM), MHT, Compressed EXE viewer or a collection of HTML pages.
- Create backup files to keep reserved copies or to transfer information to another computer.
- Extract all images from saved pages to a folder.
- Send a page by E-mail or transfer it to MS Word.
Bibliography Features
Click the Citation
Panel button to access the ability to use
citation information for the selected Web page. You
can enter its elements (Author, Title, Editor, etc.)
to get a prepared reference in four predefined
styles - MLA, APA, Chicago and CBE.
You can add your own styles in the Options dialog | Citation Styles section.
The citation information can be also displayed above or below Web pages you are browsing from Inquiry. This allows you to print the citation information along with the Web page.
Print multiple pages
You can
select multiple saved pages in Inquiry Professional Edition
and print them with a single command. No
need to browse each page separately in order
to print it!
Mark the saved pages with
icons
You can use up to 19 icons
to mark saved pages. This allows you to
distinguish your saved pages visually, and to search
pages by the icon.
Inquiry Professional Edition also lets you customize the icons list.