FotoVac   
http://www.acdsystems.com

FotoVac is a simple-to-use newsgroup scanner that finds and stores the images you want from Internet newsgroups. Just select the newsgroups that interest you and FotoVac's mass downloader will do the rest. This automatic image downloader lets you customize your newsgroup search, refine your search to suit your preferences by selecting the newsgroups that interest you, and scan or filter by keywords or author and message length. Get the pictures you want from newsgroups without having to spend your own time searching for them. Your downloaded pictures can be browsed quickly as size-adjustable thumbnails and viewed the way you want as full-screen, over-sized, or reduced images. Set FotoVac to scan newsgroups at certain intervals, to check for duplicates automatically, run invisibly in the background, ignore non-image files, and much more. FotoVac supports 9 popular image formats including, BMP, EMF, JIF, JPEG, PLX, PNG, TGA, TIFF, and WMF. When installed with ACDSee 3.1 or ACDSee 3.1 PowerPack, FotoVac supports over 35 image formats. FotoVac - Get the Pictures You Want Without Even Looking!

123NewZ   
http://www.123NewZ.net

123NewZ A brand new exiting Newsreader in development! If you are looking for MP3s, Movies, pictures, games, chats and much, much more... Then we have very good news for you!! With 123NewZ you can search through all newsgroups in a matter of seconds!! You can customize the way it looks by adding the views you use. It will use sfv to check if all downloaded files are ok. It can use multiple servers to fill missing parts and uses multiple threads to get the files fast! 123NewZ will enable you to get the files you want from newsgroups with more ease and pleasure. And faster than ever before! You can preview and view images as if they were on your HD, rotate, flip or enlarge them. And a handy rename tool is included. When you have to rename 100 files in sequence then this is the program for you! And it will give you unparalleled security, as it can encrypt the files on your HD keyed to your own passwords and only you will have access to them in the future. Encrypted text, image, music and other files are still handled by 123NewZ as normal files provided you type in the right password. And it is fast too! For small files like .jpg s you wont even notice that it is actually first being decrypted before you get to view it! Think of the possibilities: You can encrypt adult pictures to protect your children from seeing them. You can protect important documents before sending them by email. You can burn CDs with programs and only use of your password will allow access to them. 123NewZ has the ability to preview all you download, browse through the newsgroups as if they were folders on your HD, view images with the integrated picture viewer, set them as your windows background at the click of your mouse and much, much more! You can post files using the small Yenc encoder! In short we have support for XPAT, plonk, multiparts, yenc, uuenc, mime, base64, SFV, NZB, GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, MP3, WMV and more.

Message Boards Browser   
http://www.papyrussoftware.com

Message Boards Browser (MBB) version 2.0 is designed for New York Times message boards and Microsoft public newsgroup, and is distributed for free. It has an interface similar to MS Outlook, though it works for both NNTP newsgroups and with web based (HTTP) message boards. In addition it contains many tools which are very useful for users (organizing searching specific data in large or scattered message boards .etc. ). Although this program is professionally developed, you can use it as freeware for unlimited time. Program capabilities include: More then one message board can be downloaded at the same time. User can define keywords with different colors. In all messages, keywords are colored with the defined color. If a message contains one keyword, a colored circle appears to the left of the name. If a message contains more than one keyword, the circle is divided into colored sectors. Messages and newsgroups can also be bookmarked with differnt marks. Some message boards or newsgroups can be marked as favorites. All favorites can be updated or accessed by one mouse click. Possibility of tracking rapidly changing message boards. Filters can be set for messages containing (or not containing) text, within date limits, according author name.etc. All messages posted by an author can be listed or printed. A user friendly wizard for posting HTTP messages. Many download options can be selected (forward, backward, reloading, tracking .etc.) Different layouts can be can be saved and recalled even for next sessions.

Atomic Newsgroup Explorer   
http://www.apasscracker.com

Atomic Newsgroup Explorer (ANE) is developed to extract e-mail addresses and user names from the newsgroups (usenets). It perfoms fast and effective. Just enter any NNTP server address or choose it from the default list and the program will download the names of all available usenet groups. Then select some interested groups to explore and ANE will gather all the addresses and names from these groups. The extractor requires very few machine sources while running and can run quietly in the background on any computer running Windows (95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP) with a functioning connection to the Internet with open NNTP port. Actually, it takes a half an hour to get the new targeted list of e-mail addresses using ANE! The list can be saved to a file, Windows Clipboard or MS Word or MS Excel application. Atomic Newsgroup Extractor does not depend upon any additional software the way many email grabbers depend on third-party libraries. The most important feature of ANE is an availability to work with private newsgroups locked by password and servers that do not show all available groups. You may enter the know usenet group manually and process it too. Another unique feature is a multi-threaded operating, it speeds up the entire process in many times! Atomic Newsgroup Explorer has a user-friendly interface. It is very easy to start working with the program. Once the program started, you have to enter a newsgroup server address and press "Search" button to load a list of available groups. After that you mark the interested ones and press "Start" to begin extraction. It will begin exploring immediately and first contact addresses will appear in a few seconds.

Picture Patrol 9   
http://www.brainchild.nl

Picture Patrol is a program for Windows and Mac OS that automatically extracts pictures from thousands of articles posted in Usenet newsgroups. It builds huge collections of free pictures overnight, using a simple interface to replace what once was a time-consuming task with essentially some settings and a few mouse clicks. Unlike ordinary newsreaders that require your constant intervention, Picture Patrol independently downloads articles from your favorite newsgroups, decodes pictures attached to them and saves these images into the directories you set, neatly grouped by date and newsgroup. Features include: user-defined collections of newsgroups, support for more than one news server, automatic group circulation after a number of articles, minutes or pictures, freedom to choose where each collection will be stored, creation of unique filenames and protection against corrupted files, making the program quite stable.