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OSXnews - 2.08

Webcore-based Usenet newsreader with threading

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All Time:	(2.4)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	2.08
Release Date:	2006-03-12
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	4,776
Downloads (all versions):	17,445
Price:	Free

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Product Description:

OSXnews is a small, fast usenet newsreader for OS X. It is designed to look and behave like Apple's Mail program and uses it for all mail functions. It also uses the Webcore engine used in Safari to display messages.It is actively being developed and the current version supports many (though not all ) features people expect in a newsreader. OSXnews is a Universal Application and works well on the new Intel Macs. It also has some support for binary posts. At the moment this is limited to single part yEnc posts. Full support is expected in upcoming versions.

What's new in this version:

This is a minor version change but a major update. The UI has now been changed to closely match that of Mail.app in Tiger (it still work in panther though) . OSXNews is also a universal binary now which should be good news for our intel using friends. I have added support for localization of the application by updating a few xml and one HTML file. There should be no need to play with nib files or anything like that. This way localization should seem less problematic and challenging.

Among other new features is the addition of keyboard navigation with up and down arrow keys as well as expanding and collapsing threads with the T and C keys.

The message window also displays emoticons and all http and email links addresses are links.

Last but not least, we now have some experimental yenc support. it only supports single part binaries and is a little slow, but it will be much improved in the next version. Please submit bug reports here:

read here for a full change long: http://osxnews.sourceforge.net/new2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=2

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

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Doesn't work. - Version: 2.08, 6/7/2007 04:28AM PST

bob238

Does nothing but generate false authentication errors with same server and authentication information with which every other newsreader I've ever tried work.

Existing usenet account, username and password. False authentication errors in this app.

Does not work with Comcast - Version: 2.08, 2/18/2007 11:50AM PST

islanddan--2008 (Zaph)

Gets the list of news groups but does not get the messages.

Worthless with Comcast.

Problems with automatic decoding - Version: 2.08, 11/2/2006 08:38AM PST

cbmfmts02

I really like Thoth as a newsreader, but it is not a Universal Binary (and future development is in doubt), so I thought I'd try this one.

I downloaded the group list and subscribed to one group. I double-clicked on the subscribed group (assuming this would list the article headers). I saw one article header displayed and it started decoding. So I switched to another application and I could not get back to OSXnews - just got the spinning beach ball. Don't know if it was trying to decode all the messages (binaries) or what (I set it to retrieve 500 msg headers). Anyway, after a little while I had to do a force quit.