Programs

  

 

Agent & Free Agent

 

Agent is a powerful and easy-to-use newsreader. It allows you to browse newsgroups both online and offline. It also allows you to send and receive email. It includes powerful regular expressions for watch and kill filtering.
Free Agent -This is the scaled-down version of Forte Inc's Agent news reader, yet is fully functional with no nag screens. See Forte Inc's web site for a list of the extra features contained in Agent.

 

News Hunter
News Hunter is a free Windows utility that can help in finding publicly accessible news servers. You can use this program to find access to newsgroups that may not be available from your local news server or newsgroups that have been censored. 

 

APicViewer Freeware
APicViewer lets you see files as they download and browse them off-line. Any unwanted pictures, videos and sounds can be deleted. Header information including file size, dimensions, newsgroup,author, subject, etc, is available before each download. 

 

MicroPlanet Gravity
   Gravity's design provides excellent multi-tasking capabilities for searching, sorting and completing newsreading tasks in the background.Gravity sets a new standard in managing newsgroups with exciting new features such as an advanced rules system, a customizable toolbar, image managemen and multiple server support.

 

Decode Shell Extension
 This Explorer extension allows you to decode a UUENCODED, XXENCODED, BinHex or Base64(MIME) file by simply right-clicking on it in the Explorer and selecting Decode from the menu. It supports multiple attachments, multi-part files (already concatenated), XXENCODED and User (table) encoded files in addition to UUENCODED, Base64(MIME) and BinHex (Mac format) files

 

WinZip
 WinZip brings the convenience of Windows to the use of Zip files and other compression formats.

 

ACDSee
 The fastest and easiest-to-use image viewer available for Windows. ACDSee is two tools in one. A full-featured image viewer quickly displays your images in high quality. The image browser lets you efficiently find and organize your images.

 

News Binary Extractor
 USENET News binary automatic extractor. Supports UUENCODE, XXENCODE and MIME encodings. Joins multiple newsgroups to better decode broken series of files. Auto-Select and Kill strings. Can validate files. Supports external decoding, validating and post-processing.

 

NewsMonger
 Automatically monitors USENET newsgroups and private NNTP servers. Supports multiple searches, search scheduling, and e-mail notification of new article matches.

 

AutoPost
 AutoPost is a PC program capable of doing bulk uploads of files to news servers. It runs on PCs and can be used to automate the process of uploading large numbers of files that require UUENCODING, for example, image files, data files, programs, zip files etc.

 

NewsGrabber
 Includes a full image/object viewer/browser, spam reduction, complex filtering. It can display thumbnails, and interacts with Dial-Up networking to dial and download unsupervised.

 

PAN
 PAN is a powerful and user-friendly newsreader for the GNOME graphical desktop environment. It has many features for easy news reading, posting, and downloading binary attachments to articles. (Linux)