



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.
Simple Little Usenet Test is a program to test usenet newsgroup servers. It's primarily intended to be used as a way to verify that your account details are correct and/or to diagnose what goes wrong when a problem occurs. Freeware.
Vsbenchmark 2006 test the graphic device performance with enhanced graphics for gaming and graphic application. With Xscale Wireless MMX instructions and VGA screen support.
UsenetGrab! has a browser like approach that makes it a great way to get started using the world's largest message community.

Surfino:Newsreader
$0 - surfino GmbH
This is an easy to use newsreader.

Dacris Benchmarks
$25 - Dacris Software
Dacris Benchmarks is a program that tests, compares, and optimizes your system. Version 5.0 is an exciting new upgrade to this benchmarking program. It has been completely rebuilt for stability and simplicity. Based on a new plug-in DLL architecture, it allows users to make their own tests and optimizations. It is light-weight, easy to set up, stable, and accurate. It also has a very large collection of online reference results (baselines) with which you can compare your own results.

Benchmark
$0 - Quartus Handheld Software
So you've bought a new Palm, and you're wondering just how much faster it is than the last one you had? Give Benchmark 3.0 a try. It'll accurately show the speed of any Palm device. It's small, free, and written entirely on-board a Palm handheld using the Quartus Forth on-board compiler!

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.

Benchmark Factory for Databases Freeware
$0 - Quest Software
Benchmark Factory for Databases is a database performance and scalability testing tool for Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 UDB, Sybase ASE, MySQL, and other databases using ODBC connectivity that:
? Generates load against the database by replaying production workload, running user-defined SQL scripts or using out-of-the-box industry standard benchmarks (AS3AP, TPC-C TPC-B, TPC-D, Scalable Hardware).
? Simulates concurrent users running database transactions to uncover performance bottlenecks pre-production.
? Evaluates how database code such SQL, PL/SQL, T-SQL scale under different concurrent user loads.
? Stress tests the database to determine the breaking point measuring scalability and performance.
? Compares performance test results enabling users to compare performance and scalability between database platforms, which is necessary during database migrations (SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005, Oracle 9i to Oracle 10g, etc.), database platform evaluations (Linux vs. Solaris vs. Win), and when deploying and tuning Oracle RAC.

RSSOwl | RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader
$0 - RSSOwl Development Team
RSSOwl is a free RSS / RDF / Atom Newsreader written in Java using SWT as graphic library. RSS ("Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary") is a document specification that gives users the power to collect and organize Web-based news and information in a more efficient manner. Applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers or "aggregators". RSSOwl is such an application. It lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. Why "Owl"? The owl is a traditional symbol of wisdom, and a quiet, efficient hunter. You'll find RSSOwl's "big eyes" a big help when scanning the Web's vast array of RSS resources. The top12 reasons why you should use RSSOwl are - High performance and native Look and Feel that uses the operation-system GUI theme, Great platform support: Use RSSOwl on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, Import/Export newsfeeds with OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language), Generate PDF/RTF/HTML documents from any news, Use drag and drop to manage your favorites in unlimited nested categories, Loaded newsfeeds are automatically stored in an archive to read them while being offline, Powerful, integrated Newsfeed search engine, Perform a full text-search with result-syntax highlight, RSSOwl is highly customizable (set Fonts, Hotkeys, Language, etc), Display news in the internal browser, Big Tutorial and FAQ to help you manage your new newsreader. 31 Supported Languages (English, Russian, Chinese, German and much more). RSSOwl comes with a huge list of sample favorites. RSSOwl runs on Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP), Linux (GTK2), Mac OS X and Solaris.
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