Diiva

Current Version: 1.0.3b3

Diiva is a specialized newsreader that works in conjunction with Diiva's $5.00/month image preview and categorization service. Simply speaking, Diiva is a proprietary client that works in conjunction with the company's proprietary servers to help Usenet picture junkies quickly preview and find the pictures they are looking for. Available only for Power Macs running Mac OS 8.0 and later, it's distributed as shareware and costs $35. Version 1.0.2 adds/changes the following:

So typically you need software on your PC (or Mac, or Smartphone, or whatever) to view the contents of the database. That software is called a Usenet Newsreader. (There is at least on online newsreader too, which we have included in the table below).

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• Much improved stability -- numerous crashing bugs fixed.
• Improved compatibility with a wider range of news servers.
• Added the ability to reset the group access counts.
• Fixed incompatibility with aggressive transparent proxy servers.
• Improved error reporting.
• Lots of smaller fixes.

User Reviews

'Diiva is a nice program for weeding through the thousands of GIFs and JPEGs that are posted online daily, but it's not without its quirks and shortcomings. For $5.00 a month, you can subscribe to Diiva's preview server, which creates thumbnail previews of most of the files that are posted to the binary graphics newsgroups; Diiva then displays those previews on your screen. Frequently, however, many pics display 'Preview Not Available' instead of a thumbnail; just as frequently, the wrong thumbnail is displayed for some pictures. Also, there is no ability to mark a picture, thread or newsgroup as being read; nor are crossposts marked as already read (or viewed). This leads to a lot of 'I've already seen these previews!' Still, Diiva is better than downloading hundreds or thousands of pictures and sifting through them to find something good. The previews let you download only the pictures whose thumbnail preview looks interesting. It's a good program that needs some work and feature additions/enhancements, particularly the ability to mark posts & groups as read (or in this case, viewed).'
—Kevin Engler

'Diiva fills a great need for Mac users who download images from the usenet. Instead of the laborious process of downloading an image at a time, and then having to delete the ones you don't want, Diiva gives preview images, so you only download what you want, or else you can tell it to download all images in all your favourite newsgroups, while you're having lunch, then delete the unwanted ones with a single click. It saves a huge amount of work for me. It's so intuitive I only had to click it open and it set itself up, without any human configuration needed!'
—Wilson Gilmore

'Buyer beware, this company does not reply to emails, the application does not work with my ISP and your credit card will be billed recurring monthly charges to get the alleged full feature set. Stick with your free newsreaders or Baker; this developer gives shareware a bad name.'
—Thomas Patrick Dillon

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Version 1.0.3 Preview 3 for Mac OS X (Carbon) is now available, adding/changing the following:

• Carbonized for Mac OS X.
• OS X Mouse wheel scrolling support added. (Mac OS X only)
• OS X Fixed even more proxy server issues.
• OS X Other smaller fixes.
• Added yEnc support.
• Fixed problem where the image viewer would sometimes fail to update properly. (Mac OS X only.)
• Fixed a couple of issues with the yEnc decoder. It's now much more robust.

OS X: Leaf, a new news reader for Mac that syncs with Google Reader, makes browsing and reading your feeds easy while keeping the amount of space the app takes up to a minimum.

Google Reader is great, but its interface could be better. Thankfully there are plenty of desktop Google Reader clients that pull in and sync your RSS feeds, give you more features, and make keeping up with your favorite sites more fun. Leaf's reminds me a bit of previously mentionedCream, mostly in that the interface is similar: Leaf lists your stories vertically in a scrolling window that you can adjust, and when you click on a story, it opens up in a pop-out window on the right side of the screen. When you're finished, close the window and go back to scrolling.

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When you first launch the app, Leaf prompts you to connect it with your Google account so it can pull in your Reader subscriptions and sync your read/unread articles. From there, new stories appear at the top, and the icon next to the headline indicates the blog the article came from. You can easily mark all articles as read with a button at the bottom of the window, subscribe to new feeds through the app, search for a specific story using the bar at the top, and view starred articles with the star button at the top. Right clicking any article lets you star it or open it in your main browser.

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Leaf supports multiple Google Reader accounts, can notify you when new stories come in, and even lets you manage your subscriptions from the options window. Aside from that, the app walks the line between being minimal, offering you only the essential features, and making sure the features it does offer are useful. I'm not sure it'll replace our favorite news reader for Mac (and my personal favorite,) Reeder, but if you're looking for an alternative, Leaf is worth a look.

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