NewsLeecher - Interface
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NewsLeecher isn't for free, so when it has not been registered yet, you will see the following screen:
The Continue Trial button appears afer a couple of seconds, after which you can actually start the program. NewsLeecher can be used for 14 days as a trial, after which registering is necessary. Should you have bought a license already, click on 'Purchase License' and enter your data. Then the following screen will appear:
Interface
NewsLeecher’s main screen is shown below. Before we go on to the settings, I will first explain the various parts of the interface.
At the top you can see the menu bar including a list to activate a group. The bar beneath it contains a number of buttons that perform the most common actions. Beneath all this we see the most important part of NewsLeecher, a bar in which we can choose between various tabs. The content of the main screen depends on the tab selected.
A brief explanation of the tabs: |
Add servers and Usenet newsgroups |
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Watch the contents of a Usenet newsgroup |
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List all items in the download queue |
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Check on the progress of automatic repair and extraction of the files. |
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About the same as the Windows Explorer |
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Version information, news and a log |
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NewsLeecher’s SuperSearch |
The skin of the program can be adjusted with the following buttons:
Take a look at the bottom left-hand corner. The green section shows us the download speed in graph format. The section at the bottom right-hand corner is used to show the connections to the servers and which action is being performed on a server. Below this there is a status bar, which shows the maximum download speed, the current download speed and the free disk space.
It could be that NewsLeecher will show the following screen after starting. It will ask you to specify your max. download speed. The reason for this is that if you want to set a speed limit in the future (such as 75%), NewsLeecher needs to know your internet connection's bandwith speed in order to calculate the max. download speed.
To the next chapter: Configuration
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