PimpFish 2.40 - User Guide and FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions - PimpFish

1. What is PimpFish and what does it do?
   In short: PimpFish helps you download large amounts of pictures/movies/whatever from any website you surf to. Furthermore PimpFish enables you to send ANYTHING you bump into online (movies and images) to your friends in a single click. On top of that PimpFish now has a cool new thing called the FloatBar which helps you in saving Flash and movies from websites, and enables you to zoom pictures directly in your browser - sweet!
   
   
2. Problems with the Toolbars menu.
   If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0, the Toolbars menu will show multiple Radio items. This is an Internet Explorer bug that causes all toolbar extensions to show up in the menu as Radio. The last Radio item on the menu should activate the PimpFish toolbar.
   
   If you have other toolbars installed, the Toolbars menu may begin to malfunction. For example, if you have the Google toolbar installed, the Google item on the Toolbars menu may activate PimpFish, and vice versa. Again, this appears to be an Internet Explorer bug that appears when several toolbars are installed.
   
   
3. I wanted to grab some Flash or an embedded movie from a website, but PimpFish didn't get it!
   PimpFish does support downloading of Shockwave Flash files and movies from websites, however the grabber is limited in this respect as it cannot grab material which is embedded on the website with the Toolbar. This means any movie or flash objects which plays directly in your browser.
   
   
4. The downloader won't download a file, what's up?
   The reasons can be many but most often it is a simple timeout error or a 404 not found error which PimpFish encounters. Often these errors are on the server you are trying to download from. When you see a download error you should doubleclick the item in the PimpFish downloader to see the error details. Through this interface you should be able to get an explanation of what is going on. From here you can also report errors directly to us which makes it easy for us to investigate and see whether we, or the website, is at fault.
   
   
5. PimpFish only downloads 1 file at a time.
   The free trial version of PimpFish is limited to grabbing 300 files. When the trial period is over this behavior kicks in. You are however free to use PimpFish, you just have to click "Start" for every file you download.