About NewsLeecher:
Looking for a way to download from the usenet, fast and easily?
Well, look no further! Our award winning NewsLeecher application,
downloads articles from usenet groups or NZB files, automatically unpacks
the downloads if needed, and provides a search feature that makes it possible
to find what you are looking for, in a split second.
  
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 | Completely Free of Spyware & Adware | | NewsLeecher does *not* contain any spyware or adware that might send personal details over the Internet. In fact, it has been certified as spyware-, adware- and virus-free by one of the largest software sites on the Internet.
| | | Based on Successful Experience | | It is no secret that the development of NewsLeecher was initially inspired by some of the existing newsreaders on the market. We have tried to take the best features of those readers and mixed them together to make the ultimate newsreader available for our users!
| | | Including the Popular SuperSearch Usenet Search Feature | | With the built-in SuperSearch feature, you can search *all* the binary usenet groups at once, for a specific keyword or keystring, in less than a second! The SuperSearch engine is state-of-the-art in it's speed and it's ability to perform true wildcard searches!
| | | Full Support for NZB Files | | NewsLeecher has full support for the NZB file format. It can create and export NZB files directly from articles in the group view or from SuperSearch results. And it can import NZB files manually and automatically in many different ways, for easy downloading.
| | | Top Tuned yEnc Support | | Besides supporting the "old" encoding formats, such as uuEncode, NewsLeecher also supports the brand new encoding format called yEnc. Actually NewsLeecher has a top tuned yEnc decoding engine that makes sure your downloads are decoded smoothly in the background without consuming too much CPU time.
| | | Automatic PAR2 & RAR File Handling | | No more fumbling around with PAR and RAR set files! Using the integrated "Repair'n'Extract" feature, NewsLeecher can automatically verify and repair broken file sets, and automatically unpack RAR archive sets to a location you choose. "Repair'n'Extract" contains many custom settings for fitting the feature exactly for your liking.
| | | Advanced Multiserver Support | | NewsLeecher has advanced support for leeching from multiple servers at the same time! An unlimited number of usenet servers can be used to download files at the same time!
| | | Multithreaded Server Downloading | | Besides being able to download from several servers at the same time, NewsLeecher can also use up to 99(!!) simultaneous download threads per server. This could, for example, be used to download 99 pictures from a server at the same time!
| | | Filter System | | The filtering feature enables one to find certain posts without going through all received headers. Filter by subject, size, age and more!
| | | Automatic Downloading | | The built-in automatic multipart posts processing removes the hassle from combining binary post parts one by one. NewsLeecher detects and combine parts by itself!
| | | Fastest Group Caching in the World | | Fast group caching enables much faster group viewing by only receiving the latest available post headers and caching the old ones! The caching routines in NewsLeecher has been tweaked and optimized to be the fastest in the world!
| | | Top Modern User Interface | | State of the art user interface with support for XP themes and many options for tweaking the usability and the interface!
| | | Advanced Feature Support | | Besides all the usual download features, NewsLeecher also supports tons of advanced features that makes it easy to use your usenet membership to the fullest. Such features include smart article highlighting, a built in group noteblock and much much more!
| | | Compatible Technology | | Compatible with Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista and Windows 7.
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Jan 28, 2010, @715.beats
NewsLeecher V4 Beta 12 is now available for download.
Click here to see what's new in this release.
Dec 16, 2009, @566.beats
NewsLeecher V4.0 Beta 11 is now available for download.
Note that this release makes a small change to the cache file format.
It is recommended that you make a backup of your NewsLeecher settings /
data, before installing.
Release notes here.
Dec 02, 2009, @496.beats
NewsLeecher V4.0 Beta 10 is now available for download.
Click
here to read about the changes, improvements and bugfixes in this release.
Nov 13, 2009, @626.beats
Since we'll mainly focus on bug fixes and already-implemented feature
improvements for the rest of the NewsLeecher V4.0 betas, there will not be any
more additions to NewsLeecher, before V4.0 Final has been released.
So before we get flooded with questions, regarding whether this-and-that feature
is ever going to get implemented, here's a roadmap for the larger features
we have planned for future releases. Note though, that the roadmap is *not*
binding. We might change the roadmap at any time, due to whatever reason we
have for doing that.
Version 5
NewsLeecher V5 will introduce multi-tabbed SuperSearching, which will allow one
to operate several SuperSearch views simultaneously.
We are also looking into implementing a complete Keyword-Manager for V5, which
will make it possible to place downloaded and Repair'n'Extracted articles in
user-specified folder locations, based on user-specified article keywords. This
will make download managing much easier and flexible for many users.
Furthermore we'll continue to optimize the user interface and performance
of NewsLeecher, striving for a non-bloated, fast and good looking
product.
Version 6
Our current plan is to implement full text reader support into NewsLeecher V6.
It will be implemented in a very discrete way, making it almost unnoticeably
visually and performance wise, for users who don't care about text reader
capabilities.
We already have some great usability ideas for the text
reader implementation, which haven't been seen in any usenet news reader before.
Version 7+
Time will tell. We hear rumors, that the development language we use for making
NewsLeecher, will be able to provide us with the possibility to make native
NewsLeecher releases for MacOS and Linux. This is something we'll put a lot
of effort into providing for our users, if it gets technically possible.
Besides what's mentioned in the roadmap above, there will, of course, be tons of
smaller NewsLeecher improvements and additions aswell. So lots of stuff on the
roadmap for the NewsLeecher future.
Remember that our monthly subscription plan, priced at under 3 bucks a
month (US$2.99), will give you access to all upcoming NewsLeecher releases aswell
as unlimited access to our SuperSearch service, for as long as the subscription is
kept active.
Nov 12, 2009, @988.beats
NewsLeecher V4.0 Beta 9 is now available for download.
Just like the previous beta, this beta features new major
performance improvements. The performance improvements are
most visible when browsing usenet groups containing large amounts
of articles, or when browsing groups on a slow computer.
But the general speed of NewsLeecher is also improved with this
release.
For more info, click here.
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