Transforming hyperlinks when copying websites
Recently a website I infrequently use was badly defaced, and in the course of repairing the damage the owners of the site temporarily took it down. As I found it to be a very useful resource I lamented...
View ArticlePalette Editor 1.6; in and out
A new release of Cyotek Palette Editor is now available. The focus of this release is to expand on how you get data in and out of the Palette Editor.Import and ExportTo start with, the original Import...
View ArticleForgotten Developments 01 - The Roguelike
Shortly after getting our Boulder Dash clone to a playable state and celebrating the fact that a game had finally been "completed", I wanted to create something more original and decided to create a...
View ArticleOn Product Feedback
It's been a few months since the installation programs for our products were updated to request feedback on when the affected product is uninstalled. Since percolating through our different release...
View ArticleWebCopy 1.4 beta released
A beta version of WebCopy 1.4 complete with a fundamental change to how rules are ran, various performance improvements, UI tweaks and miscellaneous bug fixes has been released.Rule ChangesIn previous...
View ArticleWebCopy 1.5 beta released
A new beta of WebCopy has been released, one I hope will resolve some of the plethora of uninstall feedback I've been receiving recently relating to users having problems logging into web sites using...
View ArticleWebCopy 1.7 - web browser authentication
There are five main features WebCopy (and Sitemap Creator) need based on user feedback and our own observations. In no particular order, these are making the product easier to use, supporting multiple...
View ArticleWebCopy 1.7 - tls/ssl invalid certificate handling
You should add an option to ignore checking for an SSL certificate. The above quote is the last part of a piece of uninstallation feedback I received about WebCopy on Friday. This isn't the first time...
View ArticleWebCopy 1.7 - local file name generation
As part of WebCopy 1.7's mission to reduce user confusion and make the product more appealing, a pair of new options for controlling local file name generation have been introduced, as well as...
View ArticleWebsite history gallery
The Cyotek (and Ariad Software) websites have gone through a lot of iterations over the years. The current website software dates from 2011, with the design from 2013, and both are in drastic need of...
View ArticleIntroducing WebCopy 1.8
It's been over two months since the last CI build of WebCopy was made, and during this time I've been working quite hard on some major internal refactoring and adding a long requested feature. It hope...
View ArticleWebCopy 1.8 - New Project Wizard
In my previous post regarding WebCopy 1.8, I briefly covered a general grab-bag of some of the new features in this version. This post is dedicated to another new feature, the New Project Wizard.Whilst...
View ArticleWebCopy 1.8 - JavaScript Support
One of the long standing requests/complaints is for WebCopy to support JavaScript enabled websites, e.g. modern SPA's where JavaScript is used to build the page. Traditionally this is something I have...
View ArticleRemoval of support for Windows Vista, Windows 8 and early versions of Windows 10
Future versions of Cyotek products will retarget to use .NET Framework 4.8, from the current of 4.6.This change will mean that newer versions of our products will no longer be able to be used on...
View ArticleIntroducing 64bit builds
Previously the only Cyotek product which included 64bit binaries was WebCopy, and these weren't especially easy to discover. Future builds of Cyotek products will include separate setup programs (or...
View ArticleCrowdStrike Falcon False Positives
For the past several months the CrowdStrike Falcon endpoint protection platform has been flagging builds of our WebCopy and Sitemap Creator products as malicious.A few weeks after this originally...
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