New: SpotLite tutorial!
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Welcome to our article describing SpotLite! SpotLite is simlar to SpotLite and FTD and is a program that you can use to view what has been found (spotted) by others on Usenet.
The main differences between SpotLite and Spotnet are:
- SpotLite is much faster.
- SpotLite also runs on Apple Mac OS and Linux.
- You can't add spots to SpotLite, only view spots.
- The developer of SpotLite does not want to create a heavyweight all-in-one program for Usenet, but just an easy lightweight program for viewing spots. In a spot you can view the newsgroup and file name which you can use in a Usenet NZB search engine to generate a NZB file that you can import in your favorite newsreader.
Similarities with Spotnet:
- Information about spots is stored in a newsgroup on Usenet instead of on a web server. Therefore SpotLite needs to connect to a news server (payserver) to retrieve spots.
Topics that will be discussed in this article are:
- Installation
- Configuration
- Viewing and searching spots
- Categories and filters
- Other functionality
Download SpotLite
There are versions of SpotLite for Windows, Mac OS and Ubuntu (Linux):
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Attention: in the future should you see a spot within SpotLite claiming that a new SpotLite version has been released, do not trust it immediately! It could also be a virus. Instead check this page on Binaries4all for the latest SpotLite news.
Check Binaries4all regularly to see whether new versions of SpotLite have been released. Pressing Ctrl +D will add Binaries4all to your browser favorites.
Binaries4all is not the developer of SpotLite.
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Installation