Picture Patrol builds huge collections of free pictures overnight. It uses 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 the attached pictures and saves them to the directories you set, grouped by date and newsgroup.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-10-26
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 19.00 $

Usenet Newsreader Benchmark is a tool for benchmarking the performance of your usenet newsgroup server. Learn how your server and internet connection perform, and compare the performance to other installations to see if you're getting the most bang for your buck. A simple freeware tool with no hassles.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-01-10
• Size: 884 Kb
• Cost: Free

Another file is intended for downloading pictures and other file attachments automatically from newsgroups. Just select the groups to scan and Another File does the rest. And it saves your bandwidth by remembering articles that you downloaded before. During scanning you can preview last downloaded picture as a thumbnail or a full-size image and delete it immediately if you do not like it.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-06-08
• Size: 768 Kb
• Cost: 24.95 $

FotoVac is simple-to-use newsgroup scanner that finds and stores the images you want from usenet 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 search, browse thumbnails, view full-size images, and filter digital images by author and keyword. Download pictures with FotoVac - the smart image grabber - and save yourself time and effort.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2000-12-18
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

Android Newsgroup Downloader is an advanced multithreaded newsgroup downloader program for alt.binaries newsgroups. It is designed especially for handling large files such as movies, music, applications, and more. It's also good for downloading pictures and other small attachments. Android uses a queue-oriented design. You drag and drop the files you want into the queue (or "to-do list") and Android will download them for you automatically.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-10-30
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 26.95 $

Extract multiple email addresses from a newsgroup. Provide news server, login and target newsgroup. This program runs slowly.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-03-28
• Size: 414 Kb
• Cost: 19.82 $

QuadSucker/News is a multithreaded news downloader that downloads four binaries concurrently -- 4 times faster than single-threaded downloaders. Designed to handle all kinds of binary (alt.binaries) newsgroups: picture groups (GIF, JPEG), music (MP3), movies (MPG, M2V, etc), archives (RAR, ZIP, EXE) and more!. Supports yEnc, uuencode, and base64. Advanced built-in multi-part message assembly. Includes support for encrypted usenet services.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-11-12
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 26.95 $

Perform a pattern (XPAT) search on a news server. This has the advantage of being much faster than downloading all of the headers from the server because you only DL the headers you want. You can then create an NZB file from the results. The NZB file that you create can be imported into many popular newsreaders and downloaders.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-06-22
• Size: 948 Kb
• Cost: Free

NewsReactor is a tool to download binaries from usenet newsgroups. NewsReactor scans, combines and downloads files from selected newsgroups.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-12-14
• Size: 1017 Kb
• Cost: 15.00 $

Binbot is a specialized newsreader for downloading files from Usenet. It makes it easy to access the enormous quantity of new content posted daily to binary newsgroups. It is easy to use, fast and secure.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, French
• Release: 2007-10-30
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 29.95 $

Definition Finder allows you to search for any word on your screen by just pressing the Alt key and highlighting the word. The program doesn’t go to any website to show you the definition, rather the definition if displayed instantly next to the highlighted word. You also have the option to type or paste a word in a convenient window at the bottom of your screen to find its definition.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English
• Release: 2006-02-21
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: Free

Alt WAV MP3 WMA OGG Converter is an award-winning tool for converting between popular audio formats: WAV, MP3, WMA and OGG. Features: advanced output format settings; automatic source deleting; drag & drop.What's new:- now all program windows can be attached to Main Window with a help of a button near a "Close" button;- audio options presets in audio options windows;- new "Add Folder" window;- new option "Save subfolders structure".

• License:
• Language: English, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Sw
• Release: 2005-05-05
• Size: 1 Mb
• Cost: 25.00 $

TaskSwitchXP is an advanced replacement for the standard Windows Alt-Tab dialog with previews and powerful task management capabilities. It provides the same functionality, and adds visual styles to the dialog and also enhances it by displaying small screenshots of the application in addition to the associated icon. The dialog can also be customized on a per-user basis with optional font settings, transparency and more.

• License: Freeware
• Language: English, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Catalan, Chinese, ChineseSimplified, ChineseTraditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Other, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian
• Release: 2006-08-08
• Size: 393 Kb
• Cost: Free

Play a musical slideshow from playlists of pictures and MP3 playlists. You don't need to generate a single executable screensaver - now you can select it from playlists. Playlist of Alt MP3 Screensaver Player includes all information about musical screensaver: list of pictures, list of music files or music playlists, and all rules for playing. You can view files in .jpg, .bmp or .tga format and play .mp3, .mid or .wav files.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2001-11-15
• Size: 784 Kb
• Cost: 19.00 $

Fast Windows Shutdowner and Task Terminator. Shutdown / Restart / Log off Windows with help of hot keys or by one click on system tray icon or from command line (for .bat-files or for schedulers and planers); Terminate any running program, task or process quicker and more comfortable than in the standard Windows Task Manager, without confirmation; Make any absurdly long and routine Windows functions quicker and more comfortable.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2002-03-25
• Size: 304 Kb
• Cost: 17.00 $

The past year has seen incredible growth in the header retention offered by Usenet service providers. This has created problems for newsgroup clients that were designed when 30 days of header retention was standard. Now with Usenet service providers offering 200 days of header retention, a new solution is needed. That solution is giga-index, a new generation of newsgroup client that can handle more than one billion headers.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-12-03
• Size: 699 Kb
• Cost: 29.95 $

Alt WAV MP3 WMA OGG Converter - tool that can convert files of all these formats between each other and rip CDs. This program is intended and especialy convinient for automatic (batch) conversion of music CDs. With Alt WAV MP3 WMA OGG Converter you can make your music library in the easiest and the fastest way. Skins support. The program is fairly simple to use.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English, German, Russian, Catalan
• Release: 2006-05-29
• Size: 2 Mb
• Cost: 29.00 $

Play a musical slideshow from playlists of pictures and MP3 playlists. You don't need to generate a single executable screensaver - now you can select it from playlists. Playlist of Alt MP3 Screensaver Playerincludes all information about musical screensaver: list of pictures, list of music files or music playlists, and all rules for playing. You can view files in .jpg, .bmp or .tga format and play .mp3, .mid or .wav files.

• License:
• Language: English
• Release: 2005-05-05
• Size: 784 Kb
• Cost: 19.00 $

WinGlance is visualizable Alt-Tab replacement task switching utility with extra abilities of window closing and duration and memory viewing. It lets users switch from one open window to another, with a click at the window-snapshot list. The list can be activated by pressing ALT-TAB or pointing a mouse over lower right screen corner. Users can switch to a recent window or others by pressing hotkeys. All keys and mouse gesture can be configurable.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2004-07-19
• Size: 0 B
• Cost: 8.99 $

Touch-It is a virtual on screen keyboard which is designed to fully mimic all aspects of a desktop keyboard. Features like Ctrl+Alt+Del or task switching are supported. A keyboard is also accessible on the logon screen. Touch-It includes a designer tool to customize the look and feel of the existing layouts or to create one from scratch. Special keys available to interface with your app (Messages, COM, DLL). Multi monitor. Fully localizable.

• License: Shareware
• Language: English
• Release: 2007-08-23
• Size: 3 Mb
• Cost: 19.95 $