Ozum is a perfect tool for any user. It makes work with the Usenet as easy as "drag-n-drop" for novice users, while more advanced users will enjoy the power and control it offers. Ozum gives you a way to preview (or listen to) a part of a large video/audio file before downloading and assembling the file. You can "sample" large files before you download them and save hours that you would spend on downloading files that you don't really want.

Forte' Agent is a feature-packed commercial news and e-mail program. If you are looking for all the bells and whistles in a combined news and email client, then Forte' Agent is the answer.

A freeware version of Forte' Agent with an easy to use interface with auto-post, auto-decode of binaries, and exceptional subscribed group organization.

ALLPicturez searches through Internet newsgroup postings, finding pictures (binaries) for you to download.

ALLPicturez automatically displays a list of the newsgroups that contain binaries, filtering out everything from these newsgroups that is not pictures. It has a very simple interface that displays small thumbnail images of the pictures it finds. You then click on the pictures you wish to download.

ALLPicturez also contains a short list of free news servers for you to try out.

AutoPix is a fully automated NNTP downloader/decoder/previewer client for Windows 9X/ME.

It will download pictures from the subscribed newsgroups and place them in the directory of your choice. Simply set up the news server name, pick some newsgroups and AutoPix does the rest.

Binary Boy features a scheduling option that you can configure easily to dial your ISP, collect all attachments matching your search criteria and hang up, anytime, day or night.

Has AND, OR and NOT search and filter features. Search and filter globally or create search strings for each individual newsgroup. Handles UUencoded multiparts and MIME base-64.

Binary News Assistant monitors, selects, downloads, and decodes binary newsgroup articles.

Binary News Assistant has an easy-to-use interface with many features such as filtering options, the ability to flag articles, the decoding of all articles into their binary equivalents, and ignoring unwanted articles.

Binary News Reader is a freeware client designed to make downloading binary articles a breeze.

 Features include:

• Simultaneous multiple news server access

• Connection on demand

• An internal JPEG viewer

 FotoVac will scan through selected newsgroups and will download all the images that it finds in each group.

Images are displayed as thumbnails. To view a full size version of a downloaded image, simply click on the selected image. FotoVac supports all of the major image formats, including .bmp, .jpg and .png and can check for duplicate images.

NewsBinPro automatically downloads and decodes any binary posted to Usenet, including multipart posts. 

Feed it a list of newsgroups, and it will run until every JPG, MP3, MPG, AVI or ZIP is downloaded. A manual mode allows you to pick and choose before you download. NewsBinPro also has extensive filtering options, including special spam filters.

NewsGrabber allows you to easily collect binary attachments to USENET news articles without having to use a newsreader.

Sounds, pictures, movies can be automatically decoded and stored without any manual intervention. Includes support for multi-part attachments, MIME or uuencoded.

News Parrot is a news reader that searches for a specific newsgroup on list of servers, producing a list of servers that contain that group, the servers' details and speed, the number of articles held in the newsgroup and whether it accepts non-member postings.

Once a specific newsgroup of interest is selected, News Parrot will instruct your default news reader to connect directly to the requested server and begin importing the selected newsgroup's article headers. This program is an excellent companion to your newsreader, greatly increasing speed and access through free newsgroups.

NewsPro is an easy-to-use, multi-tasking news client with advanced support for multiple news servers. 

NewsPro lets users perform newsgroup searches on multi-servers. NewsPro gives you the option of fast synchronizing of newsgroup content for effective downloading of multi-part attachments.

NewsReactor will allow you to download files from your favorite newsgroups, including MPGs, MP3s and AVIs.

The News Reactor interface is very easy to use, and it includes great features that make it stand apart from most news readers.

News Rover excels at sifting through multiple servers, multiple newsgroups, and all the ensuing messages, then downloading only those that match the criteria you set. 

You can program News Rover to dial up on a schedule you set, winnow Usenet, deposit messages and even binary files onto your drive, then log off.

NewzTop fits neatly into your desktop, bringing all the important news to your attention immediately.

With this ticker you can choose from a plethora of news sources that you can customize to meet your own, personal needs.

OmniViewer Pro allows you to quickly and easily search through news headlines to find stories that interest you. These headlines can then be placed on a ticker and watched in real-time.

OmniViewer Pro also supports wireless devices!

Pluckit 3 is an automated Windows program designed to easily and automatically retrieve pictures, fonts, games, zips, and other binary attachments.

 Built in viewers with a slide show, spam elimination and search features make Pluckit 3 easy to use. The only drawback of Pluckit 3 is that it only allows 15 downloads per session.

Re:News removes the frustration of finding information in Usenet newsgroups. 

A search is done using simple keywords, boolean expressions, wildcards, phrases, and near words for newsgroup matching and exclusion. Search the subject heading and the body of articles in a massive web based archive. The articles found are given in a custom sorted list.

SBNews allows you to automatically download and uudecode from binary newsgroups. 

SBNews has many special features including thumbnails that display pictures during download, keyword search and spam rejection. It also has a built-in full-screen resizable JPEG viewer with slide show and image categorization features as well as supports automatic encryption to protect sensitive images.

TIFNY will automatically search your favorite Usenet newsgroups, identify the image and music files that interest you, and download them into its easy-to-use database.

TIFNY has extensive filtering and automation techniques, downloads all file types, and even handles multi-segment files. It has an MP3 player with a jukebox, an image viewer with editing functions, a video player, and a built-in webbrowser. And TIFNY's thumbnailer lets you quickly and efficiently locate images, music, video, and other files by directory, newsgroup, author, date, organization, album or artist.

Have you ever found that you just don't have the time to read all of the messages in your favorite newsgroups just to get the attachments you want?

XGrab takes the time out of all of that and gives you a simple way to view just the attachments. You can use the powerful filtering features to filter for any substring in the subject line or message. In addition, there is a scanning options so you can download the first portion of the series and decide if you want the rest.

XNews features Plonk files, quick filter score files for even more advance filtering, support for multiple servers/identities, binaries handling Optional Header and article caching; plus folders for permanent archival.