Product Description

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Features

• Download photos from digital camera; easily organize, edit, and find images
• Scanning and document management application for Microsoft Windows
• Quickly turn paper into digital content; save Web pages as PDF documents
• Create and annotate PDF files; convert static form into fillable electronic form
• Thumbnail management for Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files

Reviews (9)

Nostalgia
When I installed my first Paperport (v7), it was one of my top 3 programs of all times. Since then, PP has gone downhill with every major revision. It took me a year to get through the fatal bugs in v9, although it will still crash from time to time for no apparent reason, the only software from my 142 installed programs to do so. Of my 3 big reasons of use (search, compressed document format and document edit), I use PP only for edits of my scans, as Acrobat (for archive format) and Copernic (free) do a much better job in the other two departments.

In light of this track-record, v10 is an insult to injury as v9 should have been fully cleaned up before a new offering. I fervently hope the company can stitch the product up as I do not yet wish to abandon an old favourite.

I normally hate writing such reviews as all the negative publicity affects product sales, on which depend many jobs. Much hard work goes into product development so it is with a sad heart that I am moved to write this review, moved because a company could be so greedy to continue to milk its loyal customer base with half baked offerings. If this were a car, the streets would be littered with accidents.

Four months later -- still not patch
I have used PaperPort since version 8. Version 10 should be much better. It has some nice ideas added. They just don't work in the first release.

The other reviews of this product spotlight the defects in the initial release. It is usually a good idea to wait for the first patch before writing any review of a product. But it is not four months since ScanSoft allowed this mess out the door, and there is no sign of progress.

Listen to what other people have said. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT UNTIL THEY MEND IT.

PP v10 a frustrating step back from v9 ...even 8
I've been using Paperport for years, started before v7 was ever released, and made every upgrade along the way.Each verson was always a nice improvement, espec v9 ...but NOT v10.Stay away from it ...buy v9 instead.

If you were a v9 user, and upgraded to v10, y'all know what I mean.Simply stated, it's trash ...full of bugs, slower than ....slow.Oh so frustrating.

For those of you who never used Paperport before, you MIGHT like v10 ...but that's because you don't know any better. ScanSoft NEEDS A MAJOR!!!! BUG FIX for v10, if even that will ever do the job. Version 10 should have never been released in its current state.

For any newbies to Paperport ...buy v9.It works smoothly, is faster ....and it still has plenty of features that you will like, and other features, once you better learn the software, that you will learn to exploit with satisfaction. The so-called new stuff that v10 supposedly offers is not even close to significant enough for one to have to endure all is 'bugs', inoperabilty and slowness. ...that you will quickly come to find out if you were a knowledgeable user of the earlier versions.

I upgraded to v10 as soon as it was released, and have had to 'tolerate' it everyday, and do 'work arounds' from the way I previously used it, since the day I installed it (a few months ago) ....while waiting, and waiting ...and waiting for Scansoft to release a Patch/update.

...Well enough is enough.Tomorrow is April 1st, and I am no fool! ...I'm switching back to PP-v9.

Love Paperport 9 Pro, but 10 Pro is a disaster...
Like others who have commented here, I have been a very happy Paperport 9 Professional user for several years.Last month, when I got a new high-end laptop with Windows XP Pro and saw that Paperport 10 Pro had just been released, I checked it out and was excited about all the new features.

However, from the moment I loaded it on my computer (and I should note that I am a VERY experienced computer user AND I actually read and follow directions carefully - so this isn't a case of some newbie who didn't know what he was doing) this software has been an unmitigated disaster!Everything ran at the speed of stone and my system crashed repeatedly.In the end, I completely re-imaged my computer back to the way it was when it came from the factory and re-installed all my software.I went back to Paperport 9 Pro and everything is fine again.

BUYER BEWARE !!

Buy Version 9 instead
This is my first Amazon review.I have been using Amazon since the dawn of time (1997) and this is the only product to move me so much as to break my silence and warn others.

This product is practically non-functional.I have used PaperPort 9 for 2 1/2 years and happily so.I thought 10 would be much better, but it must have been a re-write, because it's very different.

Granted, none of this is a measurable problem just opinion, so here are my measurables:

- Where it once was instantaneous to double-click on a thumbnail to view a document, it now takes 5 to 10 seconds.
- Where once i could move a document between folders instantly, it now takes the same 5 to 10 seconds.
- With Paperport 9, my scanner could run at top speed without stopping.With 10, my scanner overwhelms the app and causes it to crash if i let it run full out.

Paperport is/was a great product, but version 10 is a complete waste.Please purchase version 9 and you'll be glad you did.

Oh, and if you have problems with Paperport -- Scansoft charges you to talk to them about it.All technical support is on a pay-as-you-go basis, no freebies.There are google/yahoo support groups, but they offer little help.

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Features

• Send personalized emails; send up to 1,000 emails per hour
• Easily manage mail list and address book
• Select from over 20 mailing templates
• Import data from popular databases; intuitive data-entry screen
• Customize mailings with easy-to-use design tools

Product Description

iSale is the perfect eBay helper utility for Mac users.

Experience selling on eBay in an entirely new way. Make your own auctions quickly and have fun at the same time. Edit your auctions as often as you want and let your creativity show - and, best of all, you can do all this offline at your own pace. iSale works with iPhoto, iSight, and iDisk to make navigating and updating your eBay account and auctions easier than ever before!

Features:

• User friendly, intuitive interface
• Edit auction layouts easily, change fonts, colors and layouts
• Use iSight to take pictures without a digital camera, just point iSight in the direction of your article and click
• Use iPhoto to easily upload auction photos
• Prepare your auction offline, then send to eBay with one click while online
• Displays the amount eBay would charge for your auction, then decide if you want to submit the auction
• Organize your auctions in "smart groups" and manage multiple auctions at a time
• Keep an overview of the current status of running and finished auctions
• Compatible with eBay USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany,France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium (French), Belgium (Dutch), Italy, Netherlands and Spain.

Product Description

WinFax PRO 10.0 is the leading fax management software for small businesses. Its high-quality faxes help you project a professional image to your clients and customers. When image clarity is vital, you can generate photo-quality faxes. You can even send or forward faxes via email to people who don’t have fax hardware or software. (Requires a free viewer downloadable from the Symantec Web site.) WinFax PRO is easy to set up, learn, and use. And it integrates smoothly with key business applications to simplify your management of client and customer interactions. Now it also supports Windows® XP.

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Reviews (43)

Buyer beware
I am not new to computers. I am used to fixing many kinds of software problems in Windows. This is not an easy product to install on a Windows XP system, especially after it has been upgraded to SP2. If you are expecting to simply install this product, reboot your computer, and start faxing, you will be sorely disappointed. Despite warnings in many other reviews, I purchased v10.03 for use on my Windows XP system with SP2. While I was able to eventually get it installed and running, it slowed my computer's reboot time to a crawl and trashed my scanner software. It took several hours to get most things working again.

First off, you should not try to install anything less than version 10.03 on an XP system. Symantec warns you about this on their web site. If you insist on purchasing WinFax Pro - which I do not recommend - make sure you buy version 10.03.

Secondly, WinFax Pro conflicts with the built-in Windows Fax program in Win XP. You will need to uninstall Windows Fax (which can be done through Control Panel's Add/Remove programs, but you need to look for it in the Add/Remove Windows Components section) to get WinFax Pro to function properly.

Third, after you install WinFax Pro your computer may take forever to reboot. It looks like it is hung up in this process, but if you go do something else for a while it will eventually reboot. I have not figured out why it does this, but it has definitely slowed my computer reboot time to a crawl.

Fourth, if you have a scanner, it may trash your scanner software (it certainly did mine - HP Scanjet 6300C). Symantec's web site has information about this in their knowledge base for WinFax Pro, so it must happen to many others, too. I did not use their fix, though, as I could not find updated twain.dll and twain_32.dll files that they recommend using to replace the ones they screwed up. Instead, I uninstalled and then reinstalled my scanner's installation software. I had to run Symantec's SystemWorks software to find/fix Windows problems and reinstall the scanner drivers a few times before it worked, but eventually I got the scanner working again. WinFax seems to have permanently disabled my scanner's buttons for doing quick operations, though. I have not found a way to restore button function. But I can scan with the Precision Pro software that is part of HP's available software downloads on their web site.

As far as I can tell, after fixing the above-mentioned problems, WinFax Pro 10.03 does seem to work okay. It does not appear to be any improvement over prior versions of WinFax, so unless you have upgraded to Windows XP you will not likely find it worthwhile to upgrade. As many others have stated before me, this is very buggy software that causes many problems with Windows XP and will be horribly frustrating for anyone trying to install and use this software on an XP system. BUYER BEWARE!

WinFax: great product but it doesn't work
I have struggled to learn to use many software products however winfax has clearly been the most problematic. Since it was a symantec product I thought it probably was good but I must be doing something wrong.I struggled with the fix to allow it to work with MS word and it would work for a while.Then there would be feezes and crashes or it would just not send faxes.I would reboot to no avail.I would turn off all other programs but to no avail.I tried to find a solution on symantecs web site but to no avail. It must be Windows ME so I put it on Windows XP.It would stop sending faxes for no apparent reason.I tried it on windows 98; again, it would stop sending faxes for no apparent reason.I would try to use it a day or so later and it would work fine for a while. I should have read some of these reviews before I wasted my time.It really should be taken off the market.My question to everyone is which program is usable?Does Communicate Deluxe function?
Thanks.

Winfax trouble
I havebeen using this product since winfax lite, (around 1995).Back then, windows was not as extensive and burdened with drivers and registry files. In theory, this is an excellent program, allowing an orderly record of all of your faxes ever sent.The unfortunate reality, is that this program will make your Windows PC behave as if it has a virus, and you will spend enormous amounts of time trying to find a virus and attempting to figure out why the system crashes whenever you try to do anything, most noteable, Microsft Word, and Dragon Naturally Speaking.Very few if any T/S people will be able to find a problem.

Be prepared to spend lots of downtime and time problem solving if you put this program on a PC running windows.

Don't Buy if You Have DSL
This program is virtually unuseable if you intend to use it on the same phone line that brings your DSL.This is true even if you place a filter on the connection to your modem.This is made clear on Symantec's support pages, but is excluded from its promotional material.An unethical practice in my opinion.Given Amazon's own uncomplimentary review, one wonders why they sell this product.

BUYER BEWARE!
Once upon a time, Win Fax Pro had a decent program.Today, NOT!
And certainly not with XP.The technical advisor was in India (out sourced) and I, unwittingly and unknowingly, allowed him to crash my entire system.Complain?To where?India fields the calls.Please pay attention to this horror story.Don't purchase any version (10.0 and over). ... Read more

Product Description

Ahead Nero PhotoShow Elite - Complete Product - Image Management - 1 User(s) Complete Product - Standard - PCNero PhotoShow Elite lets you experience photo management in a whole new way. Equipped with multiple easy-to-use editing tools found in professional software, Nero PhotoShow Elite allows you opportunity to make every picture perfect.You can do it all - Organize, manage, edit, capture, make musical slideshows and share your photos and musical slideshows online with family and friends or burn a CD or VCD and watch it at your next family event. Nice electronics is your source for everyday low prices on theAhead Soft 60100 - NERO PHOTOSHOW ELITE EASY & COMPLETE PHOTO EXPERIENCE WIN and all other Ahead Soft Software - Multimedia ... Read more

Features

• Photo management with easy-to-use editing tools
• Capture, organize, and manage photos
• Make creative slideshows with soundtracks and special effects
• Bring photos to life with editing tools, captions, and clip art
• Share photos and musical slideshows online or burn to CD/VCD

Reviews (7)

Lousy Software - Unreliable, Slow, Very Difficult To Use
I purchased this software because it was associated with SnapFish, a company I've come to trust. That was a big mistake.

1) The software is very sluggish. I have a nearly new PC with a fast processor and 1.5GB RAM and PhotoShow takes up to a minute to perform the most simple function. More complex functions, such as creating a slideshow with a hundred or so photos, takes anywhere from 15 minutes to 45.
2) The user interface is very rudamentary - like the old DOS style interfaces - and is very non-intuitive and difficult to navigate. You have to take several steps to figure out how to perform the most basic functions.
3) The software is unreliable. In the first 3 days I've had to uninstall and reinstall it twice (at Technical Support's direction) to fix problems. Additionally it lost the thumbnails for one of my albums with nearly 250 photos and Technical Support could only offer that I delete it and try to recreate the album. This was half a weekend's worth of work.
4) The funtionality it does have is very basic and common to all software in this category. In addition, half the options lead you to a screen to order products and services from SnapFish. The free version is worth it but the Deluxe version is not worth a dime.I foolishly paid $59.95 for it without checking out the reviews first because of SnapFish's recommendation.

Serial Number Worked
I was debating on purchasing this, as 2 people wrote the serial number did't work, but it was only 12.00 after the rebates and nero.com had it for 39.00 to download and another 12.00 for the disk. Took me 3 tries to get the serial number right what I thought was an I was actually a one and it worked fine. Glad I purchased this was a great price with the 2 refunds.

Rip Off
I, too, bought this software as a Christmas gift.My friend was never able to install it because the serial number on the CD Sleeve was not accepted.We sent several emails and got absolutely no response.I will never buy another Nero Product!What a waste of $40.00 and a big disappointment for my friend!

Do Not Buy This Product!
Warning - I bought this item as a Christmas gift for my father. He attempted to use the software to no avail.We had the serial number, but it required a password that we could not obtain.My father made numerous attempts to resolve this issue through Nero, however they were useless.It took days for them to reply, and the person replying had not a clue. In fact, they insuated that it was stolen, even when an amazon receipt was supplied. My father has had this software since Christmas - and he still hasn't used it.I must say Amazon.com has been great.They are going to reimburse my account and I am sending the product back to where it came from.

Real easy photo software
This is one of the easiest softwares I've ever used for my digital photos.It allows me to edit my photos, add clip art and captions, and make slideshows.The best thing is I can email my slideshows to my family living throughout the U.S. So many features are available and anyone can use it, even my 7 year old daughter. ... Read more

Features

• Accepts postal codes from other countries and provinces
• The perfect tool for organizing the names, addresses, and other contact information with just a click
• Adjust the fonts, colors, logos of your mailing labels and homemade postcards in just a few steps
• Choose from hundreds of label sizes you can print with a click
• Thousands of clip art images included

Amazon.com Product Description

HotFax Message Center 5.0 provides powerful communications for home or small businesses in one integrated command center. With seamless fax capability integrated with any Windows application, you are always one click away from sending a fax. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) lets you convert received faxes into editable text in just seconds. Other features include a custom cover-page designer, automated fax forwarding, and broadcast fax capability. You can archive or resend received faxes, customize caller ID options, and take advantage of scanner support.

The voice-mail capability provides secure, customizable voice mail, and offers you the ability to create multiple business departments and personal extensions for your home or office. Users can retrieve voice mail from any telephone and transfer messages between mailboxes. The voice-mail system lets you set up and maintain a fax-on-demand service (99 documents per mailbox) to automatically deliver informational faxes to your customers. A new feature allows voice-mail messages to be routed directly to an e-mail account. Retrieve them, listen to them, even forward them to other accounts. If you've got a pager, you can receive automatic notification of new messages. HotFax Message Center even allows you to route calls to different mailboxes based on caller ID information. Set up an unlimited number of voice mailboxes, and identified calls are routed to the appropriate mailbox automatically.

HotFax Message Center empowers e-mail with new fax and voice capabilities. Now you can send and receive faxes and voice-mail messages directly to any e-mail address. When you send a fax to an e-mail account, the recipient can read it on screen, print it, or forward it to another e-mail account, just like an ordinary message. HotFax Message Center will route voice-mail messages to any e-mail account you specify as a compressed attachment. You play it back just like any PC audio file and then save or forward it as you like. ... Read more

Reviews (15)

Stick to the free FAX software that comes with Windows XP
I just uninstalled it after I got it going (after wasting about 8 hours fiddling).

Here are the main reason I could not work with it any more:

(1) Stability: I have Windows XP Service pack 2. And nine times the application just closed with 'could not read memory error'. Twice it just hung for no reason. When it does crash, it does not try to restart the application - so if you leave it running and go away, be prepared to miss a few FAX's as it might not be running when you get back! It is a while since I have seen an application that is as unstable as this and prone to crashes on a stable well built high spec computer. People tolerated cr*ap 10 years ago when it was acceptable to get the odd blue screens of deaths - but not now! I cant tolerate an application that does not close gracefully after a problem, nor give meaningful error messages so if there are any conflicts, it could be resolved.

(2) My modem is on COM port 9. The automatic software would not let me choose this port as it only listed port 1-4. I had to go into a lot of trouble to reconfigure my BIOS beore it will detect my modem.

(3)It had an SMTP setting which is supposed to forward FAXes to email. I could never get this to work, as the 'SMTP Server setup' dialogue does not have any authentication screen so I can type in my username and passwords for my outbound mail server. Cant belive the developer did not think of this - fundemental requirement for any MAPI / SMTP integrated application

(3) user interface is very 90's and not compliant with the new norm. So you have to spend time familiarizing your self - rather than things being intuitive. The skins were very amateurish.

(4) I tried to open my Outlook contacts - but it wont let me as it does not support the password feature in Outlook or MAPI client - again pretty fundamental and shows the application was not thought out. When I did remove the password in my Outlook to make it work, it did sort of work - but sometimes when I accidently select a contact whose FAX number is not correctly formated, the program would lock up.

(5) The features and functions are inferior to what you get in the free Windows Fax service that comes with Windows XP and the OCR features that comes with Office 2003. Why bother? It was a complete waste of my time - and I am so annoyed that I actually felt compelled to write my review about a product for the first time in my life in herehopefully saving the same agony I had to endure during the last 9 hours.

Tim Muhundan
New Zealand

unreliable software, looking for a replacement
I have been using the 4.0 version of this software on a Windows 98 platform for several years, with disappointing results. The fax does not work well when it comes to sending file attachments, sometimes resulting in annoying crashes. Logging the sent or received faxes is a big problem, as the fax viewer cannot open the faxes stored in a default directory that cannot be changed. Very recently I updated my Windows 98 with all the critical updates from Microsoft, and HotFax crashes the computer (very reliably!) every time I try sending a fax. Don't buy this product, find something better.

Appalling experience!
After much research and what I thought was careful planning, I downloaded the software and found it would not work with my computer. To make it work would require a new modem for around $300.00. Tried to contact Smith Micro and they were "on holiday". Unfortunately, the time frame to return product expired while they were "on holiday" and they said it was too bad for me. Terrible customer service and I encourage people to do business with another company entirely.

Hotfax Message Center
We had a hard drive crash, and lost our copy of Quicklink (and I couldn't find the original media anywhere.) I dl'd the demo, then purchased the new HFMC to install over the demo. The disk that Smithmicro sent was physically broken (they ship the CD in a flimsy envelope, no box) and when I asked for help getting my now-expired system up, they wanted me to send the broken one back before replacing (understand they had a credit card record of my original purchase) God forbid that you have any trouble with these guys. Their tech support is non-existant. They have one of the worst voice-mail-hell systems I've ever seen. I was absolutely furious by the time I actually got to speak with a human. And he was just useless.

I'm using this product to support a remote office call-in system and due to the above non-support, I finally had to buy another copy (downloaded this time) to get my remote ops back up. I feel like an extortion victim. I'll never buy from these guys again. Stars: one for product, ZERO for customer support. I am now searching for a replacement.

Great Product
This product will SAVE any small business a thousand or more dollars by using a computer and software rather than purchasing an expensive voice mail system.BRAVO to Smith Micro!
BTW, I purchased an early version (2.0) years ago, and it was very good then.I can't wait to start using 5.0! ... Read more

Product Description

Are you annoyed with SPAM? Or worried about scammers phishing for your personal information?
Tired of wasting time these offensive and unwanted emails? Do you wish you'd never see a chain letter, virus hoax, or an outright scam email - and hope you never will again? If so, we've got good news for you. Take control of your email inbox with SpamCatcher 4.0!

The Easiest Way to Block SPAM
We examine 5 to10 million spam messages a day so you won’t see any. Stop wasting time with unwanted emails that should have never be in your inbox in the first place. Free yourself from junk email once and for all!

The Easiest Way to Block SCAMS
Are you worried about accidentally responding to an email that looks legitimate but isn’t? Are you sure that financial notice is really from your bank? SpamCatcher's patented fingerprinting technology identifies scammers and stops them cold!

Stop Them All With SPAMCATCHER
Take control of your inbox and make spam and scams go away forever! SpamCatcher blocks 99% of your unwanted emails, making sure you get only the email you want.

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Features

• Ability Write is a word processor that is compatible with advanced layout features and an interactive mail merge that links to database files column views, sorting, and filter selection
• Ability Database provides strong data management, with
• Ability Spreadsheet offers numerical analysis with multi-sheet workbooks, templates and styles, 200+ functions, and database linking
• Ability Photopaint edits images and photos provides multiple layers and a wide range of editable brushes and gradients -- plus over 90 filters and artistic effects
• Ability Presentation is a powerful a slide show creation and managment tool, compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint PPT

Features

• Special Page Builder tools jelp your Website reach the top of the relevant searches
• Learn how to submit your Website to the right search engines
• Drive more traffic to your site, increase its rankings so that it stands out from other sites
• Reporting tools help you track your progress
• Trade links to increase your site's popularity and global exposure

Features

• Restore e-mails and settings anytime; easy to use
• Easily restore old computer's e-mail data onto new computer
• Schedule e-mail back-up regularly; compressed back-up data
• Back-up account settings, address book, calendar, folders, and favorites
• Works with Outlook, Outlook Express, AOL, Eudora, and more

Features

• Fax History saves information about any sent or received fax
• The next-generation imaging technology provides the sharpest fax images available
• Use the OS X Address Book to keep your faxing numbers & contact information organized
• Create and import your own Cover Pages with logos or graphics and save them as PDF files
• Send your faxes from any OS X document-based application, like Office v.X and Mac OS X Preview

Reviews (2)

JR.COM ARE THEIVES - You only get CD, not the full Product
Don't buy from J&R - You only get CD, not the full Product.
Something they fail to tell you and try to fool you by showing a picture of the box... But you only get a CD.

Lots of bugs, packaged with unfriendliest customer service
Bought originally 10.1 version , then downloaded update since I am using Panther now. FAXstf X 10.5 constantly crashes, or cuts incoming faxes off in the middle. Called customer service (no 800 number - 20 min hold time) - a very unfriendly customer "service" agent explained that since I didn't buy FAXstf X for Panther, but downloaded the update, I do not qualify for customer support.
I use a lot of different software products for OS X, but this is the most problematic product with the worst customer service I have ever experienced.
Well done - SmithMicro!
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Brilliant system for any parent
I am glad to learn that Amazon started carrying KidMail, so I can give it as a holiday gift this year!

Since getting KidMail a few months back, my kids (5 and 8) have begun to correspond ENTHUSIASTICALLY with grandparents, aunts, and uncles.They love the bells and whistles in the software -- especially sending those cute Quick Messages -- from their KidMail.net address.

Meanwhile, I love how the KidMail system intercepts all the SPAM that flies around the internet...I know how to delete MY junk email but don't want my kids getting messages about increasing the size of certain body parts or those requests to hold 16 million from the Nigerian Treasury secretary, much less graphic (...)!!

Whenever I check my email from home or anywhere else, I get a convenient message if relatives or strangers TRY to contact my kids BEFORE they ever see it.I get to "mark" who is highly trusted, not trusted, etc.I can say whether messages go through automatically or I get a copy -- just to keep a tab on their communication.(To me, this is just the same as me not letting children answer the door when I don't know who is knocking.)

Highly recommended for any caring parent -- BRILLIANT! ... Read more

Features

• This incredible time-saver gets your work done faster -- create up to 150 words per minute
• Online chats and instant messaging are easier than ever -just talk instead of typing it
• Amazing accuracy -- features a 60,000 word vocabulary, that lets you add your own words
• Quick & easy voice training, with easily exportable voice profiles
• Powerful navigation within documents -- great for word processing, email and online chat

Features

• Full set of professional templates for easier design
• Hundreds of fonts to choose from -- select the lettering that will get you noticed
• Huge clip art library for adding the impact of powerful images to your card
• Attach your business cards to an Email, or publish them to the Web