usenet
OSXnews 2.081
OSXnews - Webcore-based Usenet newsreader with threading more>>
Enhancements:
- fixed menu where it showed show all isntead of expand all threads
- double click expands full threads again
- Localized to Polish
- improved text encoding detection
- added prelim latin-2 support (needs testing)
- handles utf-8 (needs testing)
- vastly improved text encoding detection
- downloads missing content type and newsgroup headers
- Localized to German
- Memory leak and display reload issue fixed
- Collapsing split views
- Split views remember position
- Q-encoding support
- Euc-Kr, Latin-9,ISO-8859-16,Koi8-R, windows-1251, Big5, GB2132 added
- added Italian localization.
NewsStats 1.0.1
NewsStats is well-known as a fast and powerful utility that is designed to enable you to generate various statistics about Usenet groups. more>>
NewsStats 1.0.1 is well-known as a fast and powerful utility that is designed to enable you to generate various statistics about Usenet groups. It uses the rnews file format, so you'll need a newsreader (like MacSOUP) that can save in this format. NewsStats generates statistics about authors of the various posts, about newsreader used to post them and even about the threads.
Requirements: MacPerl
Bluebeard 1.0b6.2
Bluebeard is a program which locates and downloads single- and multi-part file attachments on the Usenet forum network.. more>> Bluebeard is a program which locates and downloads single- and multi-part file attachments on the Usenet forum network... Bluebeard is robust, able to handle between 1-4 simultaneous downloads and support however many queued downloads you want to throw at it. Bluebeard is able to piece together multi-part attachments and handle popular encoding formats, including UUE and yEnc; decoding is automatic and quick.
Mac OS X 10.2.3 or later, Java 1.3.1 or later.
TestServer X 2.0.1
TestServer X offers you a free program designed to test your connection to a usenet news server, and type commands to it. more>>
TestServer X 2.0.1 offers you a free program designed to test your connection to a usenet news server, and type commands to it.
MT-NewsWatcher 3.1
MT-NewsWatcher is a Usenet client for the Mac. Based on John Norstads NewsWatcher application, it adds a few enhancements to make newsreading faster and more enjoyable more>> MT-NewsWatcher is a Usenet client for the Mac. Based on John Norstads NewsWatcher application, it adds a few enhancements to make newsreading faster and more enjoyable. These features include message filtering, spell checking, speech recognition, and multithreading, which allows you to perform several different commands simultaneously.
Mac OS 8.1 or later, Appearance Manager 1.0.3 or later.

MT-NewsWatcher X 3.5.3b3
MT-NewsWatcher is a Usenet client for the Mac. Based on John Norstads NewsWatcher application, it adds a few enhancements to make newsreading faster and more enjoyable more>> MT-NewsWatcher is a Usenet client for the Mac. Based on John Norstads NewsWatcher application, it adds a few enhancements to make newsreading faster and more enjoyable. These features include message filtering, spellchecking, speech recognition, and multithreading, which allows you to perform several different commands simultaneously.
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
Version 3.5.3b3:
- Fixed a crash closing subject windows after rebuilding the full groups list.
- Fix an issue where Extract Binaries would sometimes stall after choosing a destination folder.
- Clear the news server authentication password field when switching between news servers.
aquatik 1.3
aquatik is a superior and simple to use tickertape style headline news and chat/messaging application that can receive Elvin notifications from a variety sources including CVS, various news feeds more>>
aquatik 1.3 is a superior and simple to use tickertape style headline news and chat/messaging application that can receive Elvin notifications from a variety sources including CVS, various news feeds (usenet and web scraping/RSS feeds) and also from other tickertape clients.
Major Features:
- Optional one-line tickertape window,
- Support for the presence protocol,
- Text-to-Speech,
- Unicode support,
- Threaded and non-threaded history displays,
- Optional pinning of the scroller to the bottom of the screen,
- Cmd-option drag to move the scroller,
- And the ability to change the scroller background color.
TestServer Classic 2.0
TestServer Classic is developed to be a useful tool which allows you to quickly connect to a usenet news server, and type commands to it. more>>
TestServer Classic 2.0 is developed to be a useful tool which allows you to quickly connect to a usenet news server, and type commands to it. This program is designed for investigating Usenet news-reader and news-server problems.
hellanzb 0.6
hellanzb is a Python application designed for *nix environments that retrieves nzb files and fully processes them more>>
hellanzb also will send notices of when it has completed a file or encountered an error via Growl.
Hermes X 1.0
Hermes X - Batch processor for posting binaries more>>
Welcome Hermes, a premium batch processor for posting binaries on Usenet. Based on AppleScript, it leverages the power of Thoth to fully automate this process. You supply the parameters and it does the work. This frees up your valuable time, all while providing greater protection from mistakes than when posting manually.
Hermes is fully featured but simple to use. Posting with Hermes is as easy as posting directly with Thoth, but offers far greater control and flexibility. To learn all that Hermes has to offer, please read the entire User Guide. Afterwards, youll be ready for the best parttaking Hermes for a test drive.
NewsHunterFREE 2.1.5F
NewsHunterFREE is the Usenet utility for OS X. Easy Set Up will have new users downloading from newsgroups quickly and with minimal fuss more>>
NewsHunterFREE 2.1.5F has come as a versatile and useful application designed specially for OS X.
Major Features:
- Easy Set Up will have new users downloading from newsgroups quickly and with minimal fuss.
- Archer multimedia viewer technology accessible through the Player menu as well as from within NewsHunter documents.
- Threaded decoding and assembly of files. NewsHunter does not have to wait for a file to be decoded and/or assembled before moving on the the next article. The threaded decoding system allows files to be decoded while NewsHunter continues to download from the newsgroup. Multi-part files are also assembled and decoded in their own threads.
- Queue Articles window. You can perform multiple searches. Each search is then saved for future use. To run a saved search all you have to do is select it from the popup menu.
- Download Queued Articles Only. You can tell NewsHunter to download only the articles you have queued and then stop. This new feature can be accessed by clicking the Document Options... button on your NewsHunter document and clicking on the Article Queues tab.
- Friend Filters. Normally, you use filters to filter out articles. Friend filters are the opposite of regular filters. To create a friend filter, simply make a new filter as you normally would then click the Friend Filter checkbox. This reverses the behavior of the filter. You can use friend filters to, for example, scan an entire newsgroup and download only the files whose email address matches the one in your filter.
- Disable Decoding. The Decoding tab now has a checkbox that lets you turn off NewsHunter's internal decoding methods. When you do this, NewsHunter will simply download everything to the Raw Files folder associated with the newsgroup. You are then free to decode the files in any manner you like.
- Lightweight news reader. NewsHunter provides an independently threaded news reader. This allows you to do some light news reading while you download binaries. The News Reader tab lets you quickly read any newsgroup listed on the Home tab. You can also post articles.
- Convenient tabbed interface. NewsHunter has an easy to use, tabbed interface. Everything you need to retrieve, view, and manage the files you download is only a couple of clicks away.
- Automatic folder creation. NewsHunter automatically creates folders based on the name of the newsgroups you download from. Inside the Decoded Files folder (which is in the same folder as your NewsHunter application by default) you will now find a folder that is named after each newsgroup. If you subscribe to alt.binaries.pictures.astro you will find a folder named abp.astro in the Decoded Files folder. All the files downloaded from alt.binaries.pictures.astro will be found in the abp.astro folder.
- Self-healing folders. NewsHunter can now recreate the path to any folder in real time. This means you can drag the entire Raw Files folder to the trash and NewsHunter will re-create it - and any child folders - as they become needed.
- Easy File Management. Using the Decoding tab of NewsHunter, you can go though a list of all the files that have been downloaded. You can cursor through the list and display each image. While viewing images, you can quickly delete a file simply by hitting the "D" key.
- Synchronize newsgroups command.
- Newsgroup Subscription tab makes managing newsgroups easy.
- Recent Document menu remembers the last five NewsHunter documents you accessed.
- Support for StuffIt Expander as MIME decoder.
- Support for yEnc files.
- Disable MIME decoding.
- Disable yEnc decoding.
- Disable UU Decoding.
- NewsHunter implements Regular Expressions in the download engine to increase the efficiency with which multipart files are detected
- NewsHunter supports picture uploads. Select the pictures you want to upload from a gallery of thumbnails, click a button, and NewsHunter posts the pictures to the newsgroup of your choice. You can even include a different text tag that will appear before and after each image that is posted.
- Persistent article queues. NewsHunter remembers all the articles you have queued in all the newsgroups and on all the news servers you access. If you have to quit NewsHunter or if there is a crash, you can rest easy knowing that all the queues will still be there next time you run NewsHunter.
- Multiple News Servers. Have accounts on several news servers? NewsHunter has no problem managing all your news accounts.
- Newsgroup Cycling. Don't want to download all the files in a newsgroup before moving on to the next one? NewsHunter solves this problem by letting you download a few files from each newsgroup in a round robin fashion. And if you access more than one news server, NewsHunter will let you cycle through the servers as well.
- Automatic assembly of multipart posts. NewsHunter will assemble and decode multipart posts even if the parts arrive out of order, days apart, or from different servers.
- Easy to Use Filtering Options. NewsHunter not only has an easy-to-use, single-click filter option but it also has a flexible Filter Manager.
- Image Preview section displays images as they are downloaded.
- NewsHunter even includes a MasterSplitter utility to join files segmented on Windows-based machines.
- Clear Decoded Files List - On the Decoding tab, there is a new option that lets you control how often the Decoded Files list should be cleared. In previous versions the list of decoded files could only be cleared by clicking the Clear List button. If you ran NewsHunter over night, the list would get very long. This would eventually slow the program down. You can now configure NewsHunter to clear the list after downloading a set number of files
- NewsHunter 2.0.11 now includes a preference that lets you delete the raw file after an attached binary has been decoded. Turn this preference on to not only save hard disk space but to increase performance as well. To enable the preference open the NewsHunter Preferences window. You should delete the Raw Files folder as well since there may be left over files in there already. The Raw Files folder is inside your NewsHunter folder by default.
- Compact Database - The Utilities menu now has a "Compact Database" command. The longer you run NewsHunter, the larger the database becomes. Use this command to compact the database periodically.
- And More. Over 300 improvements, changes, and fixes over the NewsHunter 1.x releases.
Getleft 1.2a2
Getleft - Download manager more>>
What this program is not
A GetRight substitute, I have seen in Usenet that some people seem to think so, while I get a big ego boost from reading it, the fact remains it isnt.
Main features:
- While it goes, it changes the original pages, all the links get changed to relative links, so that you can surf the site in your hard disk without those pesky absolute links.
- Limited Ftp support, it will download the files but not recursively.
- Resumes downloading if interrupted.
- Filters not to download certain kind of files.
- You can get a site map before downloading.
- Getleft can follow links to external sites.
- Multilingual support, at present Getleft supports Dutch, English, Esperanto, German, French, Italian, Polish, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Spanish.
- If you would like Getleft to support your own language, please check this.
- Some others not worth mentioning.
Enhancements:
- Minor UI fixes and enhancements.
Carracho Client 1.0 PR4
Carracho Client is designed as a handy program which gives you the ability to chat, transfer files, and read news provided by remote Carracho servers. more>>
Carracho Client 1.0 PR4 is designed as a handy program which gives you the ability to chat, transfer files, and read news provided by remote Carracho servers. Once connected to a Carracho server, you can meet other users in chat rooms, discuss ideas in newsgroups, and simultaneously download the latest updates for your software, without switching between different applications.
All of the features found in IRC, FTP, and Usenet programs are integrated, including multithreaded news, real-time chat, moderated chat rooms, drag-and-drop file transfers, and more. In addition, the Carracho Client allows you to resume downloads, send private messages, and access all administrative functions from a single window.
Carracho Client 1.0b10r4
Carracho Client offers a comprehensive, user friendly Carracho Client allowing you to use the services provided by a Carracho Server. more>>
Carracho Client 1.0b10r4 offers a comprehensive, user friendly Carracho Client allowing you to use the services provided by a Carracho Server. Once connected to a server, you can meet new friends in chat rooms, discuss ideas in newsgroups and simultaneously download the latest updates for software without switching between different applications.
All useful features you know from IRC, FTP and Usenet programs like multi-threaded news, real-time conferences, moderated chat rooms, drag-n-drop file upload/download etc. are integrated. Additionally Carracho Client allows you to resume downloads, send private personal messages and access all functions needed by server administrators from a single window. Carracho's easy-to-use interface will make you to a power user within minutes.
Newsflash alpha12
Newsflash alpha12 is a feature-rich and trustworthy OpenSource Usenet newsreader. more>>
Newsflash alpha12 is a feature-rich and trustworthy OpenSource Usenet newsreader.
Major Features:
- A user-friendly Aqua GUI
- MIME and UUencoded attachment support
- Multi-threaded (non-blocking) operation
- Multiple NNTP server support
- True (by-reference) article threading.
Newsflash is a 100% native MacOS X app developed with COCOA and Objective-C.
Newsflash is an Open Source project released under a BSD-style licence.
Newsflash is still in the early (alpha) stages of development. This preview release may contain serious bugs - use at your own risk! Many features are planned but not yet implemented including: - Filtering/kill-files
- Searching/sorting
- Keyboard navigation
- User preferences