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Options
Amazing Dialer is a very flexible tool with numerous
additional features. Use the Options
tab to enable and customize
these features. Below is the list of available options.
Connect at startup
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Establish the connection each time Amazing
Dialer
is started. |
Hide program at startup
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Only the system tray icon is displayed after the
application is started. Double-click the icon to bring up the
Amazing Dialer
main
window. |
Hide program at connect
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As soon as the connection is established, the
Amazing Dialer window
will be hidden. |
Auto reconnect |
Reconnect
automatically if the connection fails.
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Don't connect
if slower... |
Here you can
enter the minimum acceptable connection speed. If the speed of the
connection established is less than the specified value, the connection
will be broken and another attempt to connect will be
taken.
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Max dialing
time |
Use this
section to specify the time limit after which the program will quit
attempts to dial the provider.
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Check dead
connection |
If this
option is enabled, Amazing Dialer will periodically check the connection.
If no data can be transferred, the connection will be broken and the
program will attempt to dial the next provider in your
list.
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Disconnect if
idle for... |
Amazing Dialer
will hang up the phone if no data is received or sent from your
computer for the period of time specified in this
section.
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Disconnect
after... |
Use this item
to set the period of time after which the program will automatically hang
up the phone.
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Pause between
redials |
The period of
time between attempts to dial the provider's number.
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Ping server
settings |
Amazing Dialer
can send series of packets to the Internet address you specify in
order to prevent disconnection for inactivity. Press the Ping Server
Settings button to bring up the settings window and enter there the
interval between pings and the address of the server to send packets to.
If no interval or no WWW-address is specified this option will be
disabled.
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Extended
settings |
Pressing this button brings up a window with some rarely used options.
In this window you can specify which information should be shown in
the system tray pop-ups, customize the appearance of the system tray
icon and enable disconnection after closing all browser windows (this option now works
with Internet Explorer only).
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Show session
time in taskbar |
Marking this option enables the display of the
current session time in the program's window header and in the pop-up that
appear when you place the mouse pointer over the Amazing
Dialer
taskbar
button.
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Always show
icon in tray |
Mark this checkbox if you want to have the
Amazing Dialer
icon always displayed in
the system tray.
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Always on
top |
If this checkbox is marked, the Amazing
Dialer
window will always be
visible.
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Logging |
Clear this
checkbox if you don't want the program to keep the connections
log.
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Debug
log |
Mark this checkbox to enable logging of all errors
that occur during the Amazing Dialer
work.
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Hang up on
exit |
Break the
connection on quitting the program.
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Default
dialer |
Press this button to use Amazing
Dialer
instead of the standard Windows dialer (this
option works only in Windows 95/98/NT).
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Additional
options dialogs include the application launcher, scheduler and sounds
support.
Pressing the Launch button brings up the
Launch applications window.
You can add in
the launch list the applications that you want to be started when the Internet
connection is established (it may be a browser, an e-mail client, a firewall
etc.).
By default the launch list is empty. Press the Add
button to bring up the Add application dialog.
Pressing the Browse
button opens a standard Windows Open dialog. Use it to find a
file that should be opened. If necessary, you can specify the working directory
(Working directory) and the command line parameters
(Parameters) for the application to be run. The Window
status drop-down menu
contains settings for the size and appearance of the application window.
You can also select an event upon which the application must be
run (on connecting to the Internet via a specific provider or any of them, or on
disconnecting), and whether it must be closed when the connection is broken (and
restarted on reconnecting).
Pressing the Timers button opens the list of timers used to
automatically start and break the Internet connection.
Press the
Add button at the bottom of this window to bring up the
Add Timer dialog.
For each timer you can specify the days of the week and the exact
time to connect and disconnect and the ISP, via which the connection will be
established.
In the example above Amazing Dialer will try to establish the
connection on December 17 at 4.40 p.m. and disconnect at 5 p.m. If the modem is
busy, or the port is used by another application/device, the program will be
trying to dial the number until the attempt is successful (Redial again
if an error occurs checkbox).
The Extended options section
lets you schedule the connection to be established on a specific day every week.
Mark the Run every week on checkbox and the checkbox(es) near
the name(s) of the day(s) on which you want to start this connection. In the
example below the connection is scheduled to start at the end of each working
day (Monday to Friday, 4.40-5.00 p.m.).
Pressing the Sounds button brings up the dialog
that lets you enable and customize the sounds accompanying connection and
disconnection.
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