Almarsoft http://www.almarsoft.com Who needs computers? Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:57:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Groundhog Newsreader beta released! http://www.almarsoft.com/2009/02/groundhog_released/ http://www.almarsoft.com/2009/02/groundhog_released/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:22:37 +0000 admin http://www.almarsoft.com/?p=3 The first Almarsoft program for the Android platform has been released: Groundhog Newsreader!

Groundhog is a full featured newsreader with:

  • Interface easy to use on Android touch phones.
  • Online/Offline modes, so you can choose to download the messages anywhere or in bulk when you have a fast connection (like WI-FI.)
  • Easy reading using colors for the different levels of quoting.
  • Screen to easily select what lines to quote when replying to someone.
  • Messages are grouped by thread using separators to clearly define thread changes and thread level indicators.
  • Starring of users and authors.
  • Banning by thread and author (don’t feed the trolls!)
  • Mail forwarding of Usenet messages.
  • Configurable text size.
  • Group search.

You can already download Groundhog Newsreader 1.0.0 beta on the Android Market.

This is a beta version and there could be some rough edges. Please mail any problems you can  Currently only English and western European (ISO-8859-1/15/UTF-8) encodings are supported.

Check also the quickstart guide, especially if you’re new to Usenet.

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