Usenet Newsreader

Ypost is a command line usenet binary file poster. It provides both uuencoding and yEnc encoding posting, speed throttling, and flexible segment reposting ability. I wrote ypost because I wanted a command-line posting program that runs under Linux command line, and the one that was available...

There are a lot of RSS readers for Mac OS X out there, and Apple even added RSS capabilities directly to Safari in Tiger (10.4) - so why did I write this? Because all of the existing (Free) RSS readers are approaching the problem from the wrong side. I treat my RSS feeds more like email than...

Poesia provides an Internet content filter. Public Opensource Environment for a Safer Internet Access (POESIA) is an Internet content filter, partly funded by the European Commission. POESIA filters harmful content in several channels (Web, email, Usenet news). It combines innovative...


Platforms: *nix

These scripts, written in Perl, are quite simple in nature. I spend a lot of time cleaning out and exploring preference files when administering Mac OS X machines, and Mac OS X 10.4's propensity toward binary .plist files made this process much more tedious.The apparent alternative is a GUI, such...


Platforms: Mac

GroupSTAT generates statistics from a local Usenet news spool. Recently, I seem to have become the unofficial stats maintainer for rec.arts.drwho. The program that I have been using to generate these stats, StatNews, was inadequate for the job. I thought about making a few alterations to it and...


Platforms: *nix

RSSOwl is a free, OpenSource, RSS/RDF/Atom Newsreader in Java using SWT as fast graphic library, it comes with a huge list of sample favorites. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected...


Platforms: Windows, *nix

Alligator is a new RSS aggregator [newsreader] developed on Mono (in C# language) platform with GTK#-based user interface..


Platforms: *nix

SlashDock is a dockling that fetches and updates headlines for the lastest postings on slashdot-compatible sites and RSS-compatible sites (aka RDF) like Kuro5hin.org. Updates are obtained every 30 minutes, if new articles are available, the dock icon will flash with an image representing the...


Platforms: Mac

Shrook is a next-generation news reader that is not only easy to use, but offers advanced features not available to Mac users anywhere else. It supports all versions of RSS and Atom.Feature highlights included synchronization, full podcast support, smart groups, built-in browser and innovative...


Platforms: Mac

A single tool that bravely handles all your audio playing needs? Meet Audion. A top-notch CD player, an incredibly flexible MP3 player, and a smooth network-audio player all in one. Audion respresents the next-generation of audio tools for the Mac. Now that audio playing has been given Panic's...


Platforms: Mac

The InterNetNews package (INN) is a complete Usenet system. It includes innd, an NNTP server, and nnrpd, a newsreading server. INN separates hosts that feed you news from those that have users reading news. INN was originally written by Rich Salz (grab the USENIX paper Rich wrote about it here)....


Platforms: *nix

sinntp is a tiny NNTP client. sinntp virtually lacks any user interface: news messages are downloaded from a remote server and put into a local mailbox file. About NNTP: The Network News Transfer Protocol or NNTP is an Internet application protocol used primarily for reading and posting...


Platforms: *nix

NewsGrab provides a tool to retrieve binary files from an NNTP server. NewsGrab is a small tool that uses regular expressions to download and uudecode/ydecode binary files from USENET. Whats New in This Release: - Bumped version to 0.5.0pre4 - Another directory permission changed, thanks...


Platforms: *nix

MiNews is an RSS-based news aggregator application for Mac OS X. It provides a sortable table of news items, and contains built-in web browsing capability, avoiding the need to open a second application to view news links. It also allows integration with a user's address book to allow news links...


Platforms: Mac

PixelStick is a tool for measuring distances and angles on the screen. Excellent for designers or anyone who wants to measure a distance on their screen in any window or application!. Most of what PixelStick does is obvious. Drag the endpoints to change the measurement. Click the locks to...


Platforms: Mac

E-Mail clogged with "Hey, check out this page!" messages? Bookmarks jammed with pages you've only looked at once? Desktop littered with clippings of potentially positive pages? No more. LinkPad is best described as a scratchpad for links, a scratchpad that fills a gaping void between...


Platforms: Mac

E-Mail clogged with "Hey, check out this page!" messages? Bookmarks jammed with pages you've only looked at once? Desktop littered with clippings of potentially positive pages? No more. LinkPad is best described as a scratchpad for links, a scratchpad that fills a gaping void between...


Platforms: Mac

Microbrew MicroSieve is designed to be a high speed spam filter for USENET news. It searches for duplicate and large articles, spambots, and binaries in non-binary groups. After using some other filter programs written in Perl, it was clear that there needed to be a faster way to filter spam...


Platforms: *nix

Emila is an indexing and search tool for your email. It creates a master database of your existing email, and lets you perform various kinds of searching and filtering on that database.


Platforms: Mac

Newts project is a modern, actively-maintained implementation of notesfiles, a concept which is half Usenet and half bulletin board. Notesfiles were developed in the later 1970s at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Newts attempts to closely resemble the functionality of the Unix...


Platforms: *nix