News Readers

Disc 3

Agent - 1.7 

Home Page  License:  Shareware  Expiration:  30 days 11/30/1999 
Agent (2103206 Bytes)

Agent is a feature-enhanced commercial news and e-mail reader product. If you are looking for enhanced newsreading functionality, kill and watch filters, sorting, support for MIME/Base 64 encoded attachments, fully integrated e-mail capabilities then Agent is it.

 

AutoPix - 99.1212 

Home Page  License:  Shareware  Expiration:  30 Days 12/12/1999 
AutoPix (3799247 Bytes)

AutoPix is an automated NNTP downloader/decoder/previewer for Windows 9X. AutoPix will download pictures from the subscribed newsgroups and place them in the directory of your choice. Simply set set up the news server name, pick some newsgroups and AutoPix will do the rest.

 

Binary Boy - 1.5 

Home Page  License:  Freeware  Expiration:  Unknown 11/12/1999 
Binary Boy (721921 Bytes)

Binary Boy can search immediately or wait until a scheduled time, then dial your isp, collect all attachments matching your search criteria and hang up. Search and filter using AND, OR and NOT. Search and filter globally or create search strings for each individual newsgroup. Handles UUencoded multiparts and MIME base-64.

 

Free Agent - 1.21 

Home Page  License:  Freeware  Expiration:  Unknown 11/23/1999 
Free Agent (1104574 Bytes)

A great freeware Newsreader with an easy to use interface with autopost, autodecode of binaries, and a great subscribed group organization method.

 

MicroPlanet Gravity - 2.2 Build 1700 

Home Page  License:  Shareware  Expiration:  30 Days 12/23/1999 
MicroPlanet Gravity (2437834 Bytes)

Gravity Version is a powerful tool for accessing and processing information from the more than 25,000 USENET discussion groups. Integrated rules, view filtering, and scoring systems help to automatically identify important information and eliminate unwanted content. Built-in multi-server support lets you switch between servers with the click of a mouse. The Image Gallery makes decoding, viewing, and organizing images a sn

 

NewsBin - 3.21 

Home Page  License:  Shareware  Expiration:  Unknown 1/5/2000 
NewsBin (1011901 Bytes)

Automatically downloads and decodes any binary post to USENET including multipart posts. NewsBin's multi-threaded design willevery bit of your available bandwidth to suck down jpg, mp3, mpg, avi, zip, or any other binary file. Feed it a list of newsgroups and it will run until every binary is downloaded. A manual mode allows you to pick and choose before you download which is useful for large mp3 or mpg files on low bandwidth connections. NewsBin also has extensive filtering options, including special SPAM filters, which helps you get what you want out of USENET.

 

NewsFilter - 1.1 beta 

Home Page  License:  Freeware  Expiration:  Unknown 11/29/1999 
NewsFilter (4830208 Bytes)

NewsFilter is your own personal custom news collection and display agent. It will get the news you want from the sites you want and will then generate your own web site containing that news in an easy to view style. This saves you time from searching all over the web for the news you want by bringing it directly to your desktop.

 

NewsGrabber - 3.0.0.16 

Home Page  License:  Shareware  Expiration:  Only allows 50 Runs 12/10/1999 
NewsGrabber (1460297 Bytes)

NewsGrabber allows users to easily collect binary attachments to USENET news articles without having to use a newsreader. Sounds, pictures, movies can be automatically decoded and stored without any manual intervention. Includes support for multi-part attachments, and MIME or uuencoded.

 

NewsPro - 2.02 

Home Page  License:  Shareware  Expiration:  30 Days 12/28/1999 
NewsPro (565660 Bytes)

NewsPro is an easy to use, multitasking newsreader with support for public newsservers. There is full multiserver support. NewsPro allows you to remove duplicate message postings, and also features an autorename mode for saving multiple attachments.

 

Pluckit 3 - 4.5 

Home Page  License:  Shareware  Expiration:  Only allows 15 downloads per session 10/26/1999 
Pluckit 3 (6826044 Bytes)

The Pluckit 3 is an automated Windows program designed to easily and automatically retrieve pictures, fonts, games, zips, and other binary attachments from the USENET newsgroups. Built in viewers with a slide show, spam elimination and search features, make Pluckit 3 easy to use.

 

Re: News - 3.2 

Home Page  License:  Shareware  Expiration:  30 Days 9/9/1999 
Re: News (1571306 Bytes)

This newsreader removes the frustration of finding information in Usenet newsgroups. A search is done using simple keywords, boolean expressions, wildcards, phrases, and near words for newsgroup matching and exclusion. Search the subject heading and the body of articles in a massive web based archive. The articles found are given in a custom sorted list.

 

SBNews: News Robot - 7.1 

Home Page  License:  Shareware  Expiration:  Unlimited 9/9/1999 
SBNews: News Robot (1496762 Bytes)

SBNews: News Robot allows you to automatically download and uudecode from binary newsgroups. Many special features including thumbnails that display pictures during download and sophisticated lockout, keyword search, and spam rejection features. Comprehensive logging, statistics, and duplicate file rejection system. Built-in full-screen resizable JPEG viewer with slide show and image categorization features. Supports automatic encryption to protect sensitive images.

 

TIFNY - 3.0 

Home Page  License:  Freeware  Expiration:  Unknown 12/9/1999 
TIFNY (3949497 Bytes)

TIFNY will automatically search your favorite Usenet newsgroups, identhe image and music files that interest you, and download them into its easy-to-use database. TIFNY has extensive filtering and automation techniques, downloads all file types, and even handles multi-segment files. It has an MP3 player with a jukebox, an image viewer with editing functions, a video player, and a built-in webbrowser. And TIFNY's thumbnailer lets you quickly and efficiently locate images, music, video, and other files by directory, newsgroup, author, date, organization, album or artist.

 

UsenetGrab! - 2.7 Build 15 

Home Page  License:  Shareware  Expiration:  15 days 11/17/1999 
UsenetGrab! (3228968 Bytes)

UsenetGrab! is a news browser and has the ability to download and decode all binary file types. Features search options to scan an entire server listing for subject topics or specific group names.

 

XNews - Y2K-SE 

Home Page  License:  Freeware  Expiration:  Unknown 1/5/2000 
XNews (567843 Bytes)

XNews has a NewsXpress-like interface. it also features Plonk files, quick filter score files for even more advance filtering, support for multiple servers/identities, binaries handling Optional Header and article caching; plus folders for permanent archival.

 

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