Windows Vista

Usenet Newsreader Benchmark is a tool for benchmarking the performance of your usenet newsgroup server. Learn how your server and internet connection perform, and compare the performance to other installations to see if you're getting the most bang for your buck. A simple freeware tool with no hassles.

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Callisto will revolutionise the way you browse Bulletin Boards and USENET newsgroups, by presenting the boards and forums you browse into forums of your own definition. You can define rules to find the topics you want to see and send them to the Callisto forum of your choice.

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RSSOwl is a free RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader in Java using SWT as fast graphic library. Supported OS are Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. Some features are export of news to PDF, Import / Export with OPML and the full-text-search with syntaxhighlight. For easy execution, a exe-file is provided on Windows, a shell-script on Linux / Solaris and the Mac version is deployed in an application bundle. RSSOwl comes with a huge list of sample favorites.

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A yEnc/NZB compliant newsreader. Assign custom search rules, folders and settings to each newsgroup. Download whole .rar sets with two clicks. Send related files to the same folder. The header cache preserves bandwidth. Search using single words or use complex rules. Decode damaged or incomplete mpg and mp3 files for previewing. Browse manually or schedule searches to collect files automatically. yEnc, MIME, QP-Lite, Bommanews decoding.

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Binbot is a specialized newsreader for downloading files from Usenet. It makes it easy to access the enormous quantity of new content posted daily to binary newsgroups. It is easy to use, fast and secure.

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Plays mp3 files directly from Usenet newsgroups like a radio. Install, enter your account information and it starts playing mp3 files automatically. It's that simple. Stop, pause and play using familiar media player controls on the main window. Advanced users can edit or create new group lists that combine search results from multiple newsgroups and servers. All the popular encoding schemes are handled automatically.

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News Rover is a Usenet news reader that features a built-in search service for finding files in any Usenet newsgroup. Just enter keywords and News Rover will find matching files in any newsgroup. News Rover is the ideal tool for downloading MP3 music files, JPG pictures or full-length movies. News Rover includes a built-in RAR/PAR processor for handing RAR file posts. News Rover also has a JPG picture gallery and file encryption.

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NewzCrawler is news reader and browser which provides access to a news content from different sources: RSS/ATOM feeds, Usenet newsgroups and Web. NewzCrawler includes podcast receiver and has built-in blog client. Synchronization feature allows to keep installations on several computers in the same state. Search engine and smart folders reduce information overload. NewzCrawler is a powerful and yet easy to use news aggregator for every day use.

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Taglinator (tm), the easy to use random tagline generator with QuickPad (tm) Mode, GrabPad (tm), Stealth View, Tray View, command line interface, five custom signatures, and over 2,100 taglines. Works with any Windows program. Taglinator runs at the bottom of your screen. Swipe your mouse over the QuickPad to instantly select a new tagline and automatically copy it to the clipboard, where you can quickly paste it into your e-mail program.

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Powerful newsreader/file downloader with cross-group search. Only Ozum lets you preview/listen individual parts of multipart audio/video files before downloading and assembling the whole file. Includes a built-in viewer for images, programmable automatic news scanning robot and free autoposter with auto generating image indexes. Automatically downloads, assembles and decodes binary files, including rar and par files, supports yEnc.

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Omea Reader is an easy to use, all-in-one, RSS/ATOM feed reader, NNTP newsgroup reader, and web bookmarks manager. It's fast, it aggregates, you can organize your information with it, download podcasts with it, and it's FREE. Lightning-fast search, flexible information organization, and plugin extensibility make it really unique.

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Pluckit is a Windows program that automatically searches newsgroups for binary attachments. Supports yEnc and RAR. It downloads (plucks) them from the newsgroup to your hard drive.This program seeks out only the messages having pictures, grabs them, saves them to your hard drive, and then (only if you wish) displays them on your screen! All you have to do is tell Pluckit which groups you are interested in. The rest is automatic.

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Perform a pattern (XPAT) search on a news server. This has the advantage of being much faster than downloading all of the headers from the server because you only DL the headers you want. You can then create an NZB file from the results. The NZB file that you create can be imported into many popular newsreaders and downloaders.

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Picture Patrol builds huge collections of free pictures overnight. It uses a simple interface to replace what once was a time-consuming task with essentially some settings and a few mouse clicks. Unlike ordinary newsreaders that require your constant intervention, Picture Patrol independently downloads articles from your favorite newsgroups, decodes the attached pictures and saves them to the directories you set, grouped by date and newsgroup.

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