Many New Features!!
This major, new release contains many new features requested by our customers,
including:
- We have done a major rework of the GUI look of News Rover. You can now
select three different styles and several color themes. To select a style
and color, go into the Configure/Styles configuration page. If you prefer
the look of older versions, select the "Classic" style.
- Support for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) connections has been added. To turn
on SSL connections for a new server, go into the Configure/Server screen and
check the box "SSL connection to port" near the top of the screen.
- The File Attachment Locator and MP3 Music Locator search screens can
now be resized. To change the size, grab the right lower corner of the
frame with your mouse cursor and drag it around.
- An automated (scheduled) search feature has been added to cause News Rover
to perform File Attachment Locator and/or MP3 Music Locator searches on a
scheduled basis. When search matches are found, News Rover can be
configured to (1) automatically begin downloading them, (2) send you an
e-mail notification message, (3) send an SMS text notification to your
phone.
To configure automated searches, get into the File Attachment Locator or
MP3 Music Locator search screen and click the "Set Favorites" button.
If you haven't already specifed a list of favorite search terms, add
one or more favorite search terms.
Click the "Scheduled Search" button.
Enable the schedule search feature, select how often you want searches
to be done, and specify which actions you want performed when search
matches are found.
- A new configuration property page has been added where you can specify
default settings for new groups. You can specify default parameters
including whether news groups should be password protected and encrypted,
where downloaded files should be stored and the expiration period for
groups. To set these defaults, go into the Configure/Defaults configuration
screen.
- The screen displayed when you use Save-as or Move-to now includes buttons
allowing you to save all selected files without having to click the "Save"
button for each file. There are also buttons to skip an individual file save
and to cancel the entire save.
- A yellow envelope icon is shown at the left end of message lines that
have not been read. This makes it easy to browse the message list and find
new messages. You can mark all messages as no longer new by clicking the
yellow envelope icon near the middle of the toolbar. You can also set and
clear the new message status by right clicking on a message line and
selecting "Mark..." from the popup menu.
- Messages you have posted and replies to your messages are shown in
red in the message list.
- When opening a .nzb from outside News Rover, you are now given the option
of tagging the files for later download rather than starting the download
immediately.
- Improvements have been made to avoid memory size problems when
downloading large numbers of message headers from big newsgroups. News
Rover now pauses after downloading several hundred thousand headers,
combines and stores them and then continues downloading more headers.
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