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Internet Grey Areas
The Internet has opened up whole new avenues of freedom for people: freedom of information, thoughts and the ability to achieve anonymity while still being active in a community. This freedom has been latched onto by a large proportion of the...
Make Your Website Talk: How To Install Streaming Audio On Your Site
One of the most important tasks in online selling, and indeed in all selling, is to convince the prospective buyer that you are someone who can be trusted. A nice picture of yourself in your "about" section is helpful, but even more convincing would...
Newsbytes From The World Wide Web
** Google Desktop Live ** Google's free desktop search utility made it out of the "beta" stage and users can now download a finished 1.0 version from http://desktop.google.com for free. With improvements over the "beta" version released in 2004,...
Podcasting, A Tutorial
Podcasting -- Radio on your MP3 player
Podcasting is the latest buzzword in the computer world. It refers to radio style MP3 recordings that are available for download from web sites. It seems like almost everybody is involved in podcasting....
Tips For Finding The Perfect Portable Mp3 Player
Portable mp3 players have caught on in a big way despite the rants and disgruntled mumblings of certain millionaire recording acts. Not only are mp3 players becoming more and more affordable, but personal mp3 players are also being enhanced with...
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Three Tools Every Newsgroup Subscriber Should Know About
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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