TIFNY is a Usenet newsgroup downloader that effortlessly downloads images, music, videos, and more. It can open up to six simultaneous connections, features an MP3 player, image viewer, video player, and thumbnailer to quickly and efficiently find files.
As someone who heavily relies on newsgroups, I was thrilled to come across TIFNY – a software that truly streamlines the process. It’s a tool that searches through your preferred groups, discovers files that interest you, and downloads them into an easy-to-use database.
One of the standout features of TIFNY is its ability to open up to 6 news server connections simultaneously, utilizing multiple connections to a single or multiple servers. This ensures lightning-fast download speeds, which, coupled with its support for downloading in UUencode, Base64, and yEnc formats, makes it incredibly easy to manage large and cumbersome multi-segment music and video files.
But the best part? The program does most of the work for you. You can scan the headers from your favorite groups and pick and choose the files you want to download, or simply let TIFNY identify pictures, music, and video files that interest you and download them without any manual intervention. Plus, if you're searching for something specific (like songs by a specific artist, or pictures of a specific actor or flower), you can easily search headers by keyword to find exactly what you want.
TIFNY can even learn from past usage and utilize that information to quickly and efficiently capture only what you want. Its powerful filtering capability lets you ignore postings based on a multitude of factors, including author, organization, newsgroup, keywords, file type or size, all before you incur the time and expense of downloading them.
All downloaded files are added to TIFNY's database, along with images and music that you add from your existing collection. It comes with its own built-in MP3 player which includes a jukebox, and a built-in image viewer allows you to enjoy your images, with a video player to boot. TIFNY's thumbnailer makes it simple to browse your files by directory, newsgroup, and file type, while its search function allows you to locate them by keyword, author, date, or size.
In short, TIFNY is the complete package for anyone who's serious about their newsgroup usage, and I can't recommend it enough! It's easy to use, fast, and incredibly powerful, making it a must-have for anyone who's looking to streamline their newsgroup management.
One of the standout features of TIFNY is its ability to open up to 6 news server connections simultaneously, utilizing multiple connections to a single or multiple servers. This ensures lightning-fast download speeds, which, coupled with its support for downloading in UUencode, Base64, and yEnc formats, makes it incredibly easy to manage large and cumbersome multi-segment music and video files.
But the best part? The program does most of the work for you. You can scan the headers from your favorite groups and pick and choose the files you want to download, or simply let TIFNY identify pictures, music, and video files that interest you and download them without any manual intervention. Plus, if you're searching for something specific (like songs by a specific artist, or pictures of a specific actor or flower), you can easily search headers by keyword to find exactly what you want.
TIFNY can even learn from past usage and utilize that information to quickly and efficiently capture only what you want. Its powerful filtering capability lets you ignore postings based on a multitude of factors, including author, organization, newsgroup, keywords, file type or size, all before you incur the time and expense of downloading them.
All downloaded files are added to TIFNY's database, along with images and music that you add from your existing collection. It comes with its own built-in MP3 player which includes a jukebox, and a built-in image viewer allows you to enjoy your images, with a video player to boot. TIFNY's thumbnailer makes it simple to browse your files by directory, newsgroup, and file type, while its search function allows you to locate them by keyword, author, date, or size.
In short, TIFNY is the complete package for anyone who's serious about their newsgroup usage, and I can't recommend it enough! It's easy to use, fast, and incredibly powerful, making it a must-have for anyone who's looking to streamline their newsgroup management.
What's New
Version 5.03: Correction to non default port handling; Fixed handling of repeated segments.
Version 5.02: * Resizable program panels, * Easier to use more intuitive program design, * Redesigned program icons.* Enhanced and easier to use newsgroups preview view. * Feature to preview headers from multiple newsgroups.* File view by size * File view by author
Version 5.01: * Resizable program panels, * Easier to use more intuitive program design, * Redesigned program icons.* Enhanced and easier to use newsgroups preview view. * Feature to preview headers from multiple newsgroups.* File view by size * File view by author