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Three Tools Every Newsgroup Subscriber Should Know About

By: John Deprice, Sat Dec 10th, 2005 12:41:41 AM

There are hundred of thousands of different newsgroups on the Net. Most newsgroup subscribers are members of multiple groups. Find out which tools are available to make managing these subscriptions easier.

Binary Boy

Binary Boy allows its users to download music, movies and pictures from news servers. Folks can browse manually or schedule a search to collect files while they sleep. An intelligent subject cache speeds up searches and preserves bandwidth. The program comes witha a decoder that is is Hyper-Threading capable.

Using Binary Boy, one can search using single words, wildcards or use boolean logic and custom search rules can be applied to each newsgroup. This is one of the few applications that allows users to decode damaged or incomplete mpg movies for previewing. yEnc, MIME, QP-Lite, Quote-Printable and BommaNews encodings are handled automatically.

More Information: http://www.deprice.com/binaryboy.htm

News File Grabber

News File Grabber is a specialized newsreader which lets you easily download and extract all kinds of attachments and binary files (like photos, movies, pictures, mp3-files and other stuff) from the newsgroups on the USENET.

There are many decoding schemes supported, including MIME, UUE, base64 and yENC (also multi-parts with auto-combining).

The program supports multiple servers, up to 20 simultaneous download threads and secure server connections (SSL). You also can extract from EML/NWS-files stored on your hard disk.

More Information: http://www.deprice.com/newsfilegrabber.htm

Pluckit

Pluckit is an amazing Windows program that automatically searches newsgroups for binary attachments (pictures).It then downloads and saves them for your pleasure.

As if by magic, Pluckit seeks out only messages with binary attachments, grabs and saves them. Pluckit can display pictures individually, in a slide show, or in a gallery! All you have to do is tell Pluckit what kinds of pictures you are interested in and then click the "Start Plucking" button.

Pluckit can acquire literally thousands of JPG's, GIF's, MPG's, AVI's, ZIP's, MP3's, yEnc's, RAR's, and other file types while running completely unattended in the foreground or background.

More Information: http://www.deprice.com/pluckit.htm

About the author: John Deprice maintains a library of software tools for USENET fans and newsgroup subscribers at http://www.deprice.com/internet.htm

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