Picture Pump history.

11/XX/2000 Version 1.4.
           At last - the program now "intelligently" processes the data
           being retrieved. First of all, it can now detect the data type
           (picture or an HTML page), and process it accordingly. It means
           that if you have set the type of the site URL to a wrong value,
           which is by the way one of the most common mistakes, the program
           will correct the settings "on the fly". Besides, the program now
           can append the right file extension (jpeg, gif, bmp, wmf, etc),
           to saved pictures if they have no extension in the URL.
           Other small improvements and bugfixes of this version include:
           proxy configuration has been moved from Project Configuration
           to User Preferences dialogue, where it belongs; some parameters
           of HTTP Request generation corrected to avoid problems with some
           servers, etc.

11/01/2000 Version 1.3.
           Added template feature! Now you can specify width of the counter
           in positions (eg, 0001, 0002, 0003, etc), and even place non-numeric
           characters into the counter, eg 00(01), 00(02), etc. Besides,
           projects now will be stopped automatically when the counter exceeds
           the number of positions specified in template. For your convenience,
           there is now a button that performs some checks of the counter and
           template settings, and shows you next 10 URLs that will be generated.
           Server replies are now handled more intelligently - Picture Pump will
           not try to re-retrieve pictures that are absent on the server.
           Another cool feature is that you can now specify the lower limit
           for pictures lenghts in bytes (high-quality images cannot be 1 Kb
           in length, so there's no need to download such small pictures).
           Version 1.3 fixes all bugs found in previous versions, is more
           convenient and reliable.

10/08/2000 Version 1.2.
           Added "View target folder contents" button to the main window.
           Made counter substitute character selectable (default "@" could
           cause problems). Minor improvements of program interface and
           behaviour. You can now turn off Internet connection detection,
           prohibit adding duplicate URLs into retrieval queue. The
           background image of the main window now adapts to the colors
           used in Windows.           
           Errors log file now has a header (where the name of the project
           file is written). "Optimized" writing to log file a bit.
           The example project files are now shipped with their
           exclusions lists filled so that banners and ads are not
           retrieved.
           Project file format has not been changed (but: if you open a project
           file created with Picture Pump 1.2 in a previous version of
           the program, counter substitute character will be reset to its
           default value - "@", and the option "Do not allow items with
           duplicate URLs in the retrieval queue" will be unchecked).
           Bugfixes:
           1. Sometimes program's main window became "transparent" when
              updating background;
           2. When aborting a project, another press on "Abort retrieval"
              sometimes caused the program to lock;
           3. "Clear statistics" button bug: session stats were not cleared,
              and the results were not seen right after exiting the
              configuration dialogue;
           4. Exclusions were sometimes handled incorrectly;
           5. Lots of other bugs fixed...

09/29/2000 Version 1.1.
           Added "View error log" button to the main window.
           Project files format has not been changed (so you can easily
           open project files saved by version 1.0). Manipulating project
           files (saving, opening, closing) is now more convenient.
           Small icons look much smoother now.
           Fixed some bugs:
           1. Corrected the behavior of "Save As" command (modified
              projects still remained modified after saving them under
              another filename).
           2. Fixed a bug that sometimes changed the current project's
              filename in "Load Project" and "Save Project" commands.
           3. Corrected HTTP request construction routine (now it does
              not add fields with empty contents).

09/27/2000 Version 1.0 released! Main features: multithreaded (5 retrieval
           threads), multilanguage (English/Russian interface), retrieval
           queue and exclusions masks. Flexible HTTP request configuration,
           shell integration (association with *.ppp files - Picture Pump
           projects).