Download NewsLeecher 5.0 Beta 7

Earlier this week beta 7 of NewsLeecher version 5.0 became available. With this program it is possible to download files from newsgroups in a simple way. The program supports nzb files, has a SuperSearch, and can automatically check downloaded files for integrity and completeness and then extract them independently. New in version 5.0 is, among other things, that tabs have been added to the SuperSearch. Furthermore, there is now a SuperSearch Watchdog and they are working hard to improve the user interface. The changelog for beta 7 shows the following changes and improvements:

New features:

• Larger Feature Addition – R&E Destination Manager
  A new feature named “Repair & Extract Destination Manager” has been implemented. This feature makes it possible to tell Repair & Extract where to extract specific downloaded articles, based on customizable keywords matched against the articles subjects. The feature replaces the current settings used to specify where R&E should extract archives, but we’ve tried to make it backward compatible, so your R&E extract settings remain intact, until you decide to change them through the newly implemented manager.
• Larger Feature Addition – SuperSearch It
  A new feature named SuperSearch It, has been implemented for all tab views in NewsLeecher. The feature makes it very fast and easy to use SuperSearch for searching specific groups, article subjects and poster names. The feature also makes it very fast to browse entire groups through SuperSearch, without having to fetch headers for the specific group. Feature can be accessed by the ‘Flash Icon’ buttons, or the F4 keyboard shortcut.
• Implemented an option to completely hide the ‘Posting View’, when no articles are queued to be posted. The option can be turned on / off from by clicking the button, right-most on the transfer queues toolbar.

Improved features:

• We have begun to convert various code parts used in NewsLeecher, in preparation to port the application to Mac OS X. Note that these are *very* *very* early conversion tasks. A fully functional NewsLeecher OS X port still lies quite a while into the future.
• Visual interface consistency improvements have been implemented.
• Smaller improvements here and there.