YOU AND YOUR INTERNET

Web-surfing has just got both more enjoyable and effective.

 Are you fond of web-surfing? Then I bet you've pondered time and again how much time you spend in front of your computer constantly digging for the information you need, and how much time you waste before you eventually find the long sought for site.  

 Even an Internet newbie can understand the underlying cause of many inconveniences that occur on the Internet and often make web-searching a challenging task. Large piles of miscellaneous data together with cross-linking are sometimes a source of confusion for experienced web-surfers and newbies alike. Sometimes you have to visit dozens of sites, often clicking the same links, before you manage to find exactly what you need. In other words, though cutting-edge technology seems to have lessened the burden, finding useful information on the Internet often turns out to be frustratingly time-consuming. Nine times out of ten you have to scrape through loads of useless junk, including pop-up ads and distracting banners wasting your valuable time and cursing the Internet. Things are still worse for newbies who are often not comfortable with the web search techniques.

 Given this, one might get completely disappointed in the World Wide Web at all. Let us not jump at conclusions. The human brain is constantly thinking up new ideas aimed at making our life easier. Once there will come a time when Internet will become more structured and a lot easier to get one's bearings in. Some companies have already taken a few steps in this regard by developing software products tailored specifically to spare web-surfers the burden of organizing and managing their information.

 iNetAdviser is exactly this type of software. Why did we pick this program for review? Well, there's a good reason to it. In the first place, it differs a lot from its competitors, and in the second place – which is more important – the software is an easy-to-use and comprehensive solution fit for everyone. 

Let's see, what good is iNetAdviser. First of all, the SoftInform Company, the product developer, has implemented a number of useful and innovative features, which immediately catch the eye. As an instance, iNetAdviser allows highlighting the previously visited links (strikeout by default) making it easy for users to avoid visiting the same web sites while surfing the Internet. Now you will never click the same link twice. Moreover, you can always refresh your memory by simply hovering your mouse over the desired link, which makes the application display a pop-up hint showing the page-related comments, its rating and last view date, and even the way it looks!

This screenshot displays a web page of the CNN news channel, loaded with iNetAdviser.

 As you might have noticed, iNetAdviser seamlessly integrates with Internet Explorer by means of a toolbar, which makes many useful program's features easily accessible for you.

 To add some personal comments to a page of your choice just click the Comments button and note down your comments. Additionally, iNetAdviser enables you to easily take snapshots of the pages you navigate through. Just single-click the little camera icon on the program toolbar while viewing the page or activate the Automatic Capture Mode. In this way such a snapshot makes the page easily recognizable, and whenever you encounter the link elsewhere on the Web, you'll be able not only to view the link comments, but also get an idea of how the page looks. In many cases this allows to easily decide whether the page is worth opening.

 As you can see, the most essential and useful program's features are conveniently placed right at your fingertips. So if got used to web-surfing with Internet Explorer and think of no other browser to use – this array of browser enhancements may do for you. But, as the proverb has it, appetite comes in eating, so to speak. These features are no more than an "appetizer" – let's see what we've got next. iNetAdviser offers a number of other useful features designed for those who want their web-surfing experiences as comfortable and effective as possible. 

We have already mentioned that iNetAdviser seamlessly and easily integrates with Internet Explorer. But this software can also function as a standalone and serve as a replacement to a conventional browser.

For example, iNetAdviser allows opening quite a number of pages at a time using a separate tab for every page window and freeing up valuable taskbar space. You can easily switch between the opened windows by clicking the corresponding tabs or by means of the Fast View Navigator bar. Hovering the mouse over a link in the Fast View Navigator makes the program display a pop-up hint containing loads of useful information – exactly like in the browser window.

 The program also allows locking the particular windows from accidental close and sorting them the way you find most convenient.

 iNetAdviser enables you to open multiple web-pages with a single mouse-click saving your precious time. In this way it's pretty easy to open a number of selected pages in a list or all the pages related to a certain rubric. 

However, the above-mentioned technique only applies when certain links are already bookmarked in the program. When you deal with links in the browser window – which is more frequently the case – you can easily select the links you need and open each link in a separate window using the context menu command. 

The program will automatically exclude duplicates and enable you to open exactly the links you need. 

Additionally, iNetAdviser is capable of saving and loading your current desktop settings. This innovative feature enables you to suspend your browsing session and resume it at any time later on while keeping all the opened windows and their exact order intact. Switching between different desktops enables you to easily change your surfing direction without having to worry about any important information you might miss.  

You already know that iNetAdviser can strikeout the previously visited links. Let us consider the following situation. Say, you have visited a certain web site and you didn't like it for whatever reason – maybe, it's full of nagging commercials. Naturally, you don't want to visit it again. However, while searching the web you constantly encounter links to this or that page of the site. As you never visited them, iNetAdviser doesn't mark them anyhow. So you click the link and start exploring the web site only to discover it's exactly the site that drastically disappointed you. 

iNetAdviser provides a foolproof means to avoid such frustration. Whenever you visit a page within an already familiar domain, the Domain Links button will be highlighted green – both in the Internet Explorer toolbar and in the program itself. Just single-click it to instantly see which pages of a given domain you have already visited and view the comments you made for a particular page. 

This feature is also useful when browsing a certain domain. For example, browsing through an e-shop you can easily go to its home page or any other page you have already visited. And you don't have to care how you get there – iNetAdviser takes care of it! This technique enables you to avoid clicking many unnecessary links and spares you the trouble of loading and exploring the pages you do not need at all. Additionally, the program iNetAdviser enables its users to conveniently view all the site-related comments in a single window for a quick glimpse.

Web-addicts who spend most of the time on the Internet exploring various online resources will certainly find some advanced features of iNetAdviser most useful. The program, for instance, is capable of creating and storing bookmark lists – and can additionally combine them and check them for duplicates. 

Hopefully, this array of features will make the benefits of using iNetAdviser clear. This is, however not a complete list of innovations. For example, the pop-up ads blocking feature may come in handy for virtually everyone. iNetAdviser can also help you get rid of the annoying banners that give you no peace while surfing the web. Those spending much time online will greatly appreciate this feature. The program, unlike its many competitors, is capable of distinguishing between the pop-ups that are automatically displayed when you open a web page (unwanted pop-up ads) and the potentially interesting pop-ups that appear when you intentionally click a certain link. 

However, the nature of this article does not allow us to make a more in-depth review of the many unique features of iNetAdviser. A small article just won't do in this case.

 I hope that you appreciated this review as much as I appreciated working with iNetAdviser. To my mind, the program is certainly worth trying and a shortcut to it should become a part of your Windows desktop. 

It is said that one can find virtually everything on the Internet, if one knows how to search. Now this task has got a lot easier. At any rate, you already have iNetAdviser – an intelligent web assistant.