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[1. Procedure for Website]
[2. Procedure for A.M.AN]
Our service enables you to monitor each and every subject of your interest from Cyprus Newspapers and Magazines on a daily basis. At Blade we basically read all of the Cypriot press for you, and create press clippings (or cuttings, as they are also called). These cuttings come to you in two formats: pdf files (adobe acrobat reader files) and text files (notepad, word, etc…)
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How can you receive your press cuttings?
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There are 4 ways that you can view your press cuttings:
(1) through Blade’s website on the Internet, at www.blade.com.cy
(2) through Blade’s specially developed software client, A.M.A.N (Αυτόματη Μεταφόρτωση ΑποκομμάτωΝ)
(3) through fax, we can automatically send all your cuttings using a fax software program
(4) through Email.
In the case of our free 2-week trial service only the first 2 methods are available.
- Website: In the case of our website, www.blade.com.cy, you can log-in with your username and password (provided by us) and as soon as you log-in you see a page with a list of all the cuttings that are of interest to you for the day. Here, you also can search for articles/cuttings by: date, newspaper or magazine name, author, type of cutting, subject and keyword(s).
- AMAN: In the case of A.M.A.N., our software is installed on your computer or server and can be scheduled to start retrieving and downloading on your computer’s hard disk, all cuttings of interest, at preset times. You only need to have your computer on and a connection to the Internet (as long as the computer is on, AMAN will activate a connection to the Internet, connect to Blade’s servers, download your cuttings on your hard drive and disconnect from the Internet when it is done). In this way, the cuttings are stored locally on your computer and can be therefore viewed and printed in a much faster way. Through AMAN, you can view your cuttings on a slide show basis and print them selectively. Many more features are added continuously.
- Fax and Email are self explanatory
A. Click on www.blade.com.cy to go to our webpage. Use your username and password (that we have provided for you) to login to ClipNet:
See image on the right (this is on the right column of our home page at www.blade.com.cy)
• In order to view your clippings you have to have Adobe Acrobat Reader Installed. If you don't you can download it from: http://download.com.com/3001-2378-8338119.html
• We can also provide a CD for you with all necessary tools, including AMAN, Adobe Acrobat Reader and more…
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B. As soon as you login you will see page much like the one below.
There will be a list of clippings, which are basically all of your press clippings for today (the day you login). In order to see a specific clipping, click on the Acrobat Reader logo next to the title, on the left (under the heading «Απόκομμα»).
If you want to see clippings of other dates or a range of dates, you can use our search tools on top of the page. The first two allow you to choose the FROM date and the TO date. So if you want, let’s say, to see all your clippings from the 15th to the 20th of October, you choose accordingly. In the «Από» field choose 15 – 10 – 2002 and in the «Μέχρι» field enter 20 – 10 – 2002. Then click on the Search button, «Έρευνα»
View by subject: The other field that would be of interest for you is the "«Θέμα»" field. This is a scroll down menu which lists all the subjects we monitor for you. If you have a lot of subjects and you only want to see the clippings for only one of those, this field is very helpful. Choose the subject you want and then click on «Έρευνα» (Search) to see only the clippings for that subject.
If you want to search for a specific word in all the clippings we have in our system, enter the words you want to search for in the field «Λέξεις Κλειδί» and then click on «Έρευνα» (Search).
It is suggested that you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed before you start using AMAN.
Our pioneering file-transfer software, AMAN, has many features and can make your viewing much more easy and user friendly. Here are the steps:
- Get AMAN. You can get AMAN in two ways:
- From our CD (contact us at 22-439999 or info@blade.com.cy)
- Download it from our webpage (go to www.blade.com.cy/aman/aman.zip)
- Unzip AMAN. You can unzip AMAN with an zip/unzip software. If you don’t have this, you can get such a program in two ways:
- From our CD (we have two such programs in our CD and you can use either of them, WinZip and WinRAR. Contact us at 22-439999 or info@blade.com.cy)
- Download it from the Web.
- WinZip: http://www.winzip.com/, or
- http://download.com.com/3001-2250-8132587.html
- Install AMAN. After you unzip AMAN, you will see an exe file called setup.exe. Double click on this file and then follow the installation wizard to install AMAN.
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Use AMAN. After you install AMAN, you can start using AMAN. One way to start is the following. See diagram on the right:
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- Setup and configure AMAN: OPTIONS >> SetUp (or by pressing the F3 button)
With Download Path you can specify the folder on your computer you would like to download your clippings to. The default is c:\Program Files\Aman
In the following fields you should have the following info:
| Host: | www.blade.com.cy |
| Port: | 21 |
| Uid: | Your Username |
| Pwd: | Your Password (we provide these for you) |
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Timeout: 30
Passive: unchecked
If failure, retry 3 times and wait 5 sec(s) between...
Dial-Up: You will use this if you connect to the Internet with a modem. Use the scroll down menu to choose the way you will connect (My Connection, Cytanet, etc…). Usually this is already setup automatically when you install and start AMAN for the first time according to your method of connection.
Auto view articles delay: In this box you specify the amount of time you want to see each clipping during the slide show (this all depends on you, but a standard time is 3-6 seconds, which should give you enough time to understand whether that clipping is of interest to you or not)
The next 2 check boxes are self explanatory. After you have entered the necessary information click on Ok
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Start Using AMAN:
- Choose the date or a range of dates that you want to download press clippings for
- After you select the press cuttings you want from the list that will appear (in area 3) you can use the play, pause and stop buttons to view your press cuttings in a slide show fashion. If you do not select any clippings the slide show will show you all clippings in your list.
- In this area you will see a list of all your press clippings for the date (or range of dates) you have selected to download.
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Get your Press Clippings:
After you have chosen the date that you want to download your press clippings for (by selecting “today” or a range of dates from area 1 as shown in the diagram above, you have to click on FILE and then FORCE DOWNLOAD in order to download your clippings. (A shortcut to force download is the Ctrl+D keys)
Through FILE you can also Delete Press Clipping (by choosing a date), you can Stop Downloading, you can Print a selection of clipping or ALL clipping and you can Open All clippings in Adobe Acrobat Reader
It is suggested that you have Adobe Acrobat reader installed before you start using AMAN.
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Setup and configure AMAN: OPTIONS >> Schedule (or by pressing the F2 button)
You can also schedule AMAN to download your clippings at pre-selected times. This can be done, if your computer is on at the time you will set for AMAN to start downloading and that you have an Internet connection available for AMAN to use. Click on “Options and then “Schedule to schedule your download times.
Click on Add to add a specific time for downloading. Click on Edit to edit a time for downloading and click on Delete to delete a preset time for downloading. Follow the instructions (enter the time as 00:00, for example 1 pm would be 13:00)
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Other Features
As you see on the left, after you have downloaded your clippings you will see a list of clippings mentioning the newspaper and a brief title for each clipping.
Opening and Viewing your clippings: By double-clicking on one of the clipping in the list, you can view it in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Or you can view all through FILE >> Open All Or you can choose the slide show option by clicking on play in the Auto View section (left side of the AMAN window). After you open a press clipping, the logo of an opened folder appears on the left side of the list as shown above.
On the right side of the AMAN window there is a scroll down menu which says: “Content for:” By using this you can view the press clippings of any date you have already downloaded on your computer.
Another way to access your clippings is through Windows Explorer. As mentioned before in the Setup section, all your clippings are placed in folders (created by AMAN) named after their date in C:\Program Files\Aman (for example, clipping of the 14th of October 2002, will be in a folder called 14102002). See screen capture of windows explorer in the next page.
We will explain View >> Alerts and View >> Filters at a later stage
- Windows Explorer Screen Capture:
Follow the path: My Computer >> Local Disk (C:) >> Program Files >> Aman and you will see folders named after the dates you have downloaded clippings for. In those folders, you will find all your clipping in 3 forms. One is the Adobe Acrobat Reader file (pdf), the other is a text file (txt) and the third an MT file (only used by us).
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