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ANFILE

Summary: Automatic newsgroup image downloader
License: Shareware
Author: Dmytro kashyrin, Kadmy, Inc.
Email: kashyrin@kadmy.com
Homepage: http://www.kadmy.com/
Download: anfile20.zip (Oct 26 2000, 583.9K)
Description:
Another File v2.0 is intended for for downloading pictures and other
file attachments automatically from newsgroups. Just select the groups
to scan and Another File does the rest. It saves your bandwidth by
remembering articles that you downloaded before. During scanning you
can preview the last downloaded picture as a thumbnail or a full-size image
and delete it immediately if you do not like it. Another File provides
extensive information needed to help you in controlling the downloading
process.




Apicviewer

Summary: Multimedia files searcher. Free
License: Freeware
Author: Antoine Fabien
Email: apicviewer@aadsoft.com
Homepage: http://www.aadsoft.com/
Download: apic5_09.zip (Mar 7 2000, 1.2M)
Description:
Apicviewer Freeware will automatically search and download your favorite
pictures, movies, videos and sounds from Usenet Newsgroups.

Browse: Video files (avi), Movie files (mpeg .mpg .m1v .mp2 .mpa .mpe),
Audio files ( .wav .snd .au .aif .aifc .aiff .wma .mp3), Midi files
(.mid .rmi .midi), Media playlist (.asx .wax .m3u .wvx), Windows Media
files (.asf .wm .wma .wmv), QuickTime files (.mov .qt), Realplayer files
(.rm), Vivo media files (.viv), Rar files (.rar), Winzip files (.zip)

Other Features: Thumbnail pictures gallery, Images timer viewer,
Automatic multi-part reconstruction -Duplicate file elimination, E-mail
send, Pictures viewer, HTML viewer, Mime/UUencode decoding,
Keyword/expression searching, Grab pictures videos sounds while you are
surfing the net.




DJV

Summary: Interacts with DejaNews, offline reader
License: Shareware
Author: Alexei Reatov, Alexei's Web Research Tools
Email: alexei@mail.href.com
Homepage: http://www.betterbrowser.com/
Download: djv100.zip (May 18 1999, 383K)
Description:
The program automatically interacts with DejaNews search engine to
retrieve USENET articles according to your queries and stores them
locally for offline reading. DejaViews practically replaces DejaNews
Web interface and provides the unique way to retrieve hundreds of
relevant articles easily. Both articles and queries can be saved in a
file for future study. Sort articles, delete irrelevant ones. The
article viewer highlights links, quotations and key words. Integration
with the default Web browser and email client.




EWLEXT

Summary: Download binary attachments from newsgroups
License: Shareware
Author: James Goddard, EarthWare Limited
Email: support@ewl.com
Homepage: http://www.ewl.com/
Download: ewlext20.zip (Nov 16 2000, 468.9K)
Description:
EarthWare Extractor scans newsgroups for binary attachments. Why
manually go through newsgroups extracting binaries. Just start
EarthWare Extractor an go! EarthWare Extractor features: Supports
multiple news servers. Supports both UUENCODED and BASE64 (Mime)
attachments. Decodes multi-part ( [2/12] ) attachments. Most other
windows based extractors don't. Remembers unresolved multi-part
attachments and checks them later. Numerous selection options allow
flexibility between extensive and time saving scans. Quality,
professional looking user interface. Floating/Docking Toolbars.
Professional on-line help. Win95 compliant setup with Uninstall
support. Free upgrades for registered users.




Eznews

Summary: Selective news download agent. DEMO
License: Shareware
Author: Mikhail V. Ivanov
Email: eznews@pair.com
Homepage: http://www.pair.com/eznews/
Download: eznews20.zip (Aug 1 2000, 228K)
Description:
Eznews v2.000 is an NNTP client with search capabilities and GUI,
designed for selectively downloading articles from a news server for
offline reading, filtering out unrelated messages. The program is
available as a 32-bit version for Windows 95/98/NT.

Features:
- Scan headers of news articles using various search criteria
- Selectively retrieve articles for offline reading
- Up to 10 search keywords/"key phrases", search for one long phrase
- All words/Any word logic; case sensitive/case insensitive search
- Search for words in any language
- Up to 24 predefined news servers/newsgroups/search patterns
- Search in one of 8 different headers (Subject, Keywords, Summary,
etc.)
- Edit/Save/Load search results
- Up to 10 windows for displaying found articles




JBW

Summary: Automatic Usenet newsgroup monitoring program
License: Freeware
Author: Rocky Moore, R & J Technologies
Email: rmoore@rjsoft.com
Homepage: http://RJSoft.com/
Download: jbw0102.zip (Jan 17 1998, 759.3K)
Description:
Job Watcher will monitor the Usenet newsgroups you select for new job postings (or anything else you would like to capture).
With Job Watcher you can:
* Monitor any Usenet newsgroups your ISP provides (or free news servers).
* Filter all messages with Subject or Text Body filters which include
"AND", "OR" and "NOT" logic.
* Filters can be applied to the subject line of the message to determine
if the entire message even needs to be read.
* Log the resulting messages to daily files you can browse through in
Job Watcher (offline).
* Keeps track of the messages you have read and allows you to set given
priority levels for differnet messages.
* Comes with a list of over 400 Usenet newsgroups specifically targeted
to job opportunities and gives you the ability to add or remove from the
list.
* Schedule automatic updates to happen at any given cycle or you can scan
all the current postings immediantly.
* Complete Windows 95 Install/Uninstall features.




Job*NET

Version: 3
Summary: Search local dir/Usenet for docs
License: Shareware
Author: Randall A. Nagy, NauzNet Solutions, LLC.
Email: rarn@NauzNet.com
Homepage: http://www.NauzNet.com/
Download: jnet33s.zip (Nov 27 1999, 1010.6K)
Description:
Job*NET allows you to easily search your local directory or USENET host
for any news or email (RFC822) documents. A fully programmable search
robot is included. Once a file is located, a single click will launch
the viewer associated with the file. Results can be used while the
search-robot is running. Context-sensitive help.




LURK

Summary: Newsgroup database & offline newsgroup reader
License: Shareware
Author: Craig S. Stevenson, Stevenson Technical Services,
Email: lurker32@stsi.com
Homepage: http://www.stsi.com/
Download: lurk251.zip (Jul 19 1999, 7.5M)
Description:
Lurker 32 offers a database for newsgroup messages. Download an entire
newsgroup full of messages into a local database for fast sorting,
searching, browsing and printing. Use Lurker to create your own tech
support resource using the combined knowledge of the newsgroup members.
In most newsgroups, messages scroll... in Lurker, you can keep older
messages indefinitely.

Features include Power Search (full-text), Quick Search (indexed),
Message Tagging, HTML support, Sort in Ascending or Descending Order,
Search Word Highlighting, Save As Text, Batch Downloads, Automated
Downloads, and the ability to read messages during downloads. Network
support is included. This is an ideal tool for programmers, tech
support personnel, help desk staff, or anyone who regularly searches the
newsgroups for information.




NEWS

Summary: 32-bit Usenet News Client for Win95 and WinNT
Download: news092.zip (Aug 6 1996, 288K)




News Harvest

Version: 1.4w
Summary: Extract News bin articles
License: Shareware
Author: Gavin Turner, KRT Pty Ltd, Turner & King Pty Ltd
Email: gavin@webwrights.com.au
Homepage: http://krt.com.au/
Download: nhar1_4w.zip (May 5 1999, 1.5M)
Description:
News Harvest is a Windows 95/98/NT application for the automatic
retrieval of Usenet News binary articles. News Harvest is a fire and
forget utility that processes any number of groups over any number of
servers with no user-intervention. Features include:

Extract all binary files (not just images).
Multi-threaded, fully 32-bit executable.
Completely automatic operation.
Rebuilds multipart articles.
Remembers past downloads.
Utilises SPAM-keyword filtering.
Fully configurable output paths.
Handles abrupt disconnections (re-connects).
Very low, average CPU load.
Comprehensive logging information (optional).
Output displayed in ordered and intuitive manner.
On-the-fly changing of configuration.
Complete online manual.




News Rover

Version: 4.4.2
Summary: Automated Usenet newsreader
License: Shareware
Author: Phil Sherrod, S&H Computer Systems
Email: RoverSupport@sandh.com
Homepage: http://www.NewsRover.com/
Download: nrovr442.zip (May 26 1999, 3.4M)
Description:
News Rover is a Usenet news reader that provides both interactive,
on-line browsing and "Autoscan" mode that scans newsgroups unattended.
This makes News Rover ideal for collecting MP3 music files, JPG picture
files, AVI's, and other large files. News Rover supports multiple news
servers and has multi-threading so you can do multiple simultaneous
downloads and browse while it is working. An integrated Picture Gallery
displays thumbnail images; filing folders make it easy to organize
pictures and messages. Powerful filters with AND, OR, NOT and NEAR
operators make complex message selection easy. Display filters sort and
display only messages with complete files or that meet other criteria.
Many other features such as full e-mail, sender and site blocking, spam
elimination, duplicate message and file elimination.




News Script

Version: 1.2
Summary: Flash-driven news script.Free
License: Freeware
Author: Michael Kolesnik, vault76.com
Email: crusher@vault76.com
Download: newscr12.zip (Oct 5 2000, 97.1K)
Description:
News Script v1.2 is a news script mainly designed for Webmasters that
don't like the Java news applets. It consists of only two files, the
first is the ActiveX itself that is needed to be uploaded only once,
and the second is the text file which contains the news updates and the
number of them. It is simple because *only* the text file needs to be
updated every time - which of course saves the Webmaster precious time
and money.




NewsDart

Summary: Receive select news on the desktop
License: Freeware
Author: Jason Asher, 3D Internet Group
Email: 3dig@3dig.com
Homepage: http://www.3dig.com/
Download: nwsd100a.zip (Mar 23 2000, 1M)
Description:
NewsDart allows Internet users to receive select news, as it happens and
delivers it directly to your desktop. You select the news sources and
identify the keywords that correspond to your favorite hobbies, breaking
news topics, sports teams, research subject, or tournament and NewsDart
will do the rest.

nwsd100a.zip has replaced nwsd0011.zip and nwsd001l.zip.




NewsPlex

Summary: News-server multiplexer and explorer
License: Freeware
Author: Adam Mirowski
Email: mir@sun.com
Download: nplex28.zip (Jul 19 2000, 119.5K)
Description:
NewsPlex v2.8 is a news-server multiplexer. It allows to access
several news-servers simultaneously from any news-reader as if they
were a single server, and to take articles for each group from many
servers at once. NewsPlex can be seamlessly inserted between your
existing news-server and your news-reader, without disturbing the list
of groups or the article numbers. NewsPlex does not retrieve articles
before you request them. It only creates local indexes and redirects
article retrieval as necessary. NewsPlex always uses the best server
for requesting an article, among those having it. It will use the
remaining servers if the best one could not deliver the article.
Servers are rated dynamically according to speed, latency and
availability. NewsPlex can also be used to quickly explore lists of
candidate news-servers and to evaluate their service value.




NewsPro

Summary: Advanced multiserver support. Free
License: Freeware
Author: Alex Birj
Email: alexande@techunix.technion.ac.il
Download: npr1697.zip (Sep 15 2000, 418.7K)
Description:
NewsPro is a newsreader with strong multiple news server support. All
articles of a particular newsgroup for all news servers are displayed
in a single list. Every newsgroup may be viewed in different views,
each view with its own message filter. Message filters can be saved
and subsequently applied to any newsgroup window. Fastest news servers
are chosen for downloading articles. Many articles are downloaded at
the same time from different news servers in a transparent way.
NewsPro supports displaying jpeg images and launching applications for
other types of attachments. Easy posting; an option to repost selected
attachments or selected parts of previously posted messages. Saving
and editing previously posted messages. Retrieving newsgroup lists.
Global message filters for operation on database as a whole. Export
and import of newsserver lists (see readme.txt). Printing articles.




NEWSSEEK

Summary: NewsSeek will search for Free NNTP servers
License: Shareware
Author: Mark Erbstein, Smith Barley Software
Email: smithbarley@mailroom.com
Homepage: http://smithbarley.webjump.com/
Download: newsseek.zip (Oct 22 1999, 1.5M)
Description:
NewsSeek will search the Internet for Free NNTP news servers that
contain your favorite topics.




newZPrint

Summary: Delivery of Leading Online Sources
License: Adware
Download: newzpr21.zip (Nov 11 1999, 3.3M)
Description:
newZPrint v2.1 delivers personalized content from over 100 leading
online Internet sources, and delivers it directly to your PC. Get your
preferred sources: Newspapers, Magazines and professional material,
delivered to your desktop within minutes. newZPrint features
productivity tools that allow users to conveniently manage their news
professionally, including article reprints, archiving, forwarding and
printing.




Nomad News

Summary: Usenet news browser & auto-loader
License: Shareware
Author: David Pirie, DMP Software
Email: webmaster@nomadnews.com
Homepage: http://www.nomadnews.com/
Download: nn2p00.zip (Jun 1 2000, 2.1M)
Description:
Nomad News is a sophisticated Usenet browser and automated retriever
combined into one seamless application. A true multi-threaded, 32-bit
application that spawns up to 8 simultaneous connections to each News
server. Combines multi-part posts and displays them as one header,
shows article text as tool-tip off subject, unfolding thumbnail images,
"tagging" rules, auto redial, auto UUE and MIME decode, checks e-mail,
uses different colors for new/read/seen, supports posting. Browse
multiple groups from multiple news servers simultaneously, or auto-load
while you sleep.




NPARR

Summary: Usenet utility to search for free news servers
License: Shareware
Author: James Hyland, Newsparrot
Email: jhyland@nettaxi.com
Homepage: http://www.newsparrot.co.uk/
Download: nparr401.zip (Jun 5 2000, 73.1K)
Description:
NewsParrot enables a search for a specific newsgroup on a list of Open
servers producing a list of servers with the group, its details, speed,
the number of articles held in the newsgroup and whether it accepts
non-member postings. These results can be saved either as .txt files
for your personal records or as .html for inclusion in a web site.

On selecting a specific newsgroup of interest NewsParrot will instruct
your default news reader to connect direct to the requested server and
to begin importing the selected newsgroup's article headers.

As NewsParrot provides access to many different news-servers the
majority of the 100,000+ groups become available, and the quantity of
articles available in each group is increased.

NewsParrot works well as a companion to your newsreader, by extending
the speed and access to free newsgroups.




PicFetch

Summary: Fetches binaries from news groups
License: Shareware
Author: Ville Aikas
Email: aikasevj@home.com
Download: picfetch.zip (Sep 12 1999, 154.9K)
Description:
Picfetch is a program that allows you to automatically retrieve binaries
from the Usenet news groups. Some of the features of the PicFetch are
picture manager, picture preview and simple configuration. Use PicFetch
to fetch binaries from your favorite news groups and skip all the
annoying Web pages that automatically pop up.




QuadSucker/News

Version: 1.9
Summary: Newsgroup downloader
License: Shareware
Author: Scott Baker
Email: smbaker@quadsucker.com
Download: qdnew19n.zip (Aug 25 2000, 983.7K)
Description:
QuadSucker/News is a multithreaded Usenet news downloader. It is
optimized for downloading images, and includes built in support for
viewing GIF and JPEG files. Other types of files are also downloaded,
including sound, applications, and text/html. Multiple threads allow
up to four news articles to be downloaded simultaneously, promoting a
speed advantage of up to 400% over single threaded news downloaders.
Built in black list and white list options make filtering content
effortless. Advanced duplicate database is able to reject files based
on subject, filename, or contents. Very easy to use.




RENEWS

Summary: Newsreader searches text of all newsgroups
License: Shareware
Author: Andrew Rowsell, Think Systems International Pty Lt
Email: renews@thinksys.com.au
Homepage: http://www.thinksys.com.au/
Download: renews32.zip (Oct 3 1999, 1.4M)
Description:
Re: News is a newsreader that removes the frustration of finding
information in Usenet newsgroups. Its advanced searching capabilities
let you can search for newsgroup articles using simple keywords or with
expressions using wildcards, phrases, near words, newsgroup matching and
newsgroup exclusion criteria. The complete text of every newsgroup
article posted from today back to 1995 is searched in seconds. Matching
articles are presented in a list that can be sorted by any category. A
newsgroup summary shows the most popular newsgroups that discuss your
search terms. You can make the most use out of network bandwidth by
selecting multiple articles and downloading simultaneously. Articles
are stored in one integrated edit window making it easy for you to
print, save and view as one entity both on and offline.






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