Usenet News and Simple Little Usenet Test Software for Windows

FotoVac
$29.95 - ACD Systems

FotoVac is a simple-to-use newsgroup scanner that finds and stores the images you want from Internet newsgroups. Just select the newsgroups that interest you and FotoVac's mass downloader will do the rest. This automatic image downloader lets you customize your newsgroup search, refine your search to suit your preferences by selecting the newsgroups that interest you, and scan or filter by keywords or author and message length. Get the pictures you want from newsgroups without having to spend your own time searching for them.

Your downloaded pictures can be browsed quickly as size-adjustable thumbnails and viewed the way you want as full-screen, over-sized, or reduced images. Set FotoVac to scan newsgroups at certain intervals, to check for duplicates automatically, run invisibly in the background, ignore non-image files, and much more.

FotoVac supports 9 popular image formats including, BMP, EMF, JIF, JPEG, PLX, PNG, TGA, TIFF, and WMF. When installed with ACDSee 3.1 or ACDSee 3.1 PowerPack, FotoVac supports over 35 image formats.

FotoVac - Get the Pictures You Want Without Even Looking!

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NewsReactor
$15 - DaanSystems

NewsReactor is a tool to download binaries from usenet newsgroups. NewsReactor scans, combines and
downloads files from selected newsgroups.

Features:

Simple userinterface.
Multigrouping, similar files are grouped together.
Highspeed multithreading downloading with low level socket technology.
Advanced error correction on a message part based algorithm. This ensures (almost) no incomplete parts.
Built in smart UU, Base64 and yEnc decoding with error correction.
Selecting up to twenty active threads.
Multiple server scanning and combining.
Incremental scanning (only scanning of new articles).
Adjustable download speed to give other applications bandwidth.
Selectable download directories for each newsgroup.
Responsive Pause and Stop processing.
Shows download speed.
Filters (with regular expressions).
Find messages.
View messages.
Post messages and replies.
More and more features every new release!

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Usenet Radio
$14.95 - BinaryBoy.com

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. Working for you beneath the simple user interface is a powerful newsreader engine that collects files from multiple connections on multiple servers. 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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Newsgroup Image Collector
$14.95 - DataFire Technologies INC

NIC is the perfect tool for collecting images from Usenet newsgroups. NIC can search one or more newsgroups for images by scanning each posted message. When a message contains image content, the image is downloaded to your computer. You control which newsgroups to search and you can filter out unwanted images by using advanced filter settings.

Optional advanced features let you filter your image search by using a variety of different methods. You can filter message subject text by keywords to allow or ignore certain images. You can filter images by width, hight, file size, and file extension to skip thumbnail images or large space wasting images. You can save your images in one main directory or you can build a directory tree for a visual guide to where each image came from.

NIC gives you the ability to manage your images with ease and to preview them with the built in slide show. You can share your images with friends quickly by using the built in email wizard.

You will always have the latest release with our built in software update service. NIC includes free access to our update service which can automatically upgrade your software with new features.

NIC is a Java based program, and it is available in Windows, Linux and MacOS. There are separate files for each operating system, so please visit our website if the file for your operating system is not listed here.

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PostXpert Professional
$79 - C4F - Concepts for Future, Lda

PostXpert turns your computer into a large scale Usenet news posting machine!
Use it to simplify the process of organize and send newsgroups posts.
Maximize your product exposure by capturing a world-wide audience in just a few minutes.
There has never been an easier way to organize and maintain your newsgroup posts. PostXpert does it all!

Here are some of PostXpert's award winning features:

- Multiple Projects each one with fully customizable settings.
- Projects Settings: customizable news server and newsgroups, delay messages after each post, disconnect from server after each message post, append any number and type of random characters to the begin and end of each message and to each message body, cross post messages to a any number of groups, scramble email username, add optional headers.
- Message Options (for any individual message): multiple subjects with message subjects rotated automatically, multiple attachments, use newsgroups from the project where the message belongs or select custom ones, custom date and time and post multiple times.
- Highly configurable Scheduler to completely automate your posts.
- Select newsgroups using wildcards and/or powerful filters.
- Multiple news servers each one with it's own list of newsgroups.
- Multiple custom identities.
- Full logging of all send events.
- This is just a sample of the features available in PostXpert Free and Professional. You really need to try it out to see what it can do you for you. Download It Now!

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TIFNY
$29.95 - TIFNY

TIFNY searches your favorite Usenet newsgroups, identifies the photo, music, and video files that interest you, and downloads them into its easy-to-use database. TIFNY opens up to 6 news server connections simultaneously using multiple connections to a single server or to multiple servers. TIFNY supports downloading in UUencode, Base64, and yEnc formats. And it handles large and cumbersome, multi-segment music and video files, automatically downloading, combining, and cataloging them for you.

You can scan the headers from your favorite newsgroups and then pick and choose the files you want to download. Or let TIFNY identify the pictures, music, and video files that interest you and download them without any manual intervention. If you're looking for songs by a particular artist, pictures of a specific actor, animal or flower and more you can search the headers by keyword to find exactly what you're looking for.

TIFNY learns from past usage, and utilizes that information to quickly and efficiently capture only what you want. The powerful filtering capability lets you ignore postings based upon author, organization, newsgroup, keywords, file type or size--before you incur the time and expense of downloading them.

All downloaded files are added to TIFNY's database, along with images and music that you add from your existing collection. TIFNY has a built-in MP3 player which includes a jukebox, a built-in image viewer lets you enjoy your images, and there's even a video player. TIFNY's thumbnailer makes it easy to browse your files by directory, newsgroup and file type. Plus you can locate them by keyword, author, date, or size. With TIFNY, you can sit back and watch the show, or listen to the music.

TIFNY's thumbnailer makes it easy to browse your files by directory, newsgroup and file type. With TIFNY, you can sit back and watch the show, or listen to the music.

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