Kappanews

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Kappanews is a newsreader specialized in reading media files from the internet newsgroups. If you are interested in music, films or pictures, Kappanews is the right choice. In the newsgroups there are a bunch of media files you can download with ease. Kappanews has an integrated browser with the capability to display all common file types and even movies.

Features:

- Download from multiple news servers as they are one big server
- Multimedia file manager with special commands like Join, Split, Backup or folder synchronization
- Decoder and encoder for BASE64, UU, Quoted-Printable, yEnc, BinHex and Bommanews (B-News)
- Complex account management can handle more than just one account per server
- Each name of downloaded files is stored in a database so duplicate articles will be tagged with a special icon
- Integrated browser plays or displays all common files and even movies
- Quick setup with the configuration wizard in just 4 easy steps
- Write and publish you own articles with the posting utility
- Download with up to 8 threads and 16 connections at the same time
- Rules processor allows to manage incomming articles, e.g. you can automatically download your favorite articles
- Global search thru all subscribed newsgroups
- Completeness check for a series of files belonging together
- Prioritized download queue processing
- NZB and SFV file support
- Repair and unpack archives without the need of other programs (batch processing available)
- Encrypt a file collection into a container file