Binary Boy is a newsreader that finds and downloads music, pictures, movies and any other type of file. Browse newsgroups manually or let the scheduler download matching files while you sleep. Apply simple keyword searches, add wildcards or even use AND, OR and NOT logic. Write a single search rule or customize each newsgroup with its own search and filter criteria. Instead of wasting time downloading an unwanted movie, preview it first by downloading the first few parts and then decode it with the Dr. Binary command. Binary Boy has built-in support for all the usual encodings as well as the new, highly efficient yEnc and QP-Lite formats.

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Fast - Even on a dial-up connection you can discard thousands of unwanted subjects in minutes.

Scheduler - The built-in scheduler enables Binary Boy to connect to the news server at a preset time, such as late at night, search for files and disconnect when it's finished. If you have a dial-up internet connection, Binary Boy can even dial and hang up automatically. Each scheduled event can trigger daily or on a specific date. See the Schedule Editor screen shot.

Easy to use - Search using single words, wildcards or complex AND, OR and NOT rules such as (.jpg or .gif or .wav) and "Southpark".

Flexible Searching - Create search rules that apply to every search or create different rules for each newsgroup. See the Search Dialog and the Group List Editor screen shots.

Flexible Filtering - Filter articles based on any line in the header, the length of the article or the estimated size of the decoded file.

Skip Article, Skip File and Skip Similar commands allow you to cancel downloads already in progress.

Assembles split files - Individual parts are cached until the complete file can be assembled. If the server doesn't have all the parts, Binary Boy can attempt to decode the files anyway using the Dr. Binary feature. Dr. Binary is also handy for previewing .mpg movies without having to download the entire file.

Enc & MIME Support - Handles Base64, Quoted-Printable, UUencoding and the newer, 20%-25% more efficient encoding methods QP Lite and yEnc.

New Features in v1.94

Preserve bandwidth and increase search speed with a smarter, faster header cache. Binary Boy will download only the headers you don't already have on disk even if it has to break refreshes into multiple server requests.
Import NZB files. Some usenet services are beginning to export search results in NZB format. Now you can import these results directly into the Binary Boy queue and start downloading.
Decoder operates in a separate thread, keeping the GUI more responsive, allowing nearly continuous downloading and making better use of Hyper-Threading processors.
BommaNews support added to decoder. BommaNews is an encoding method similar in efficiency to yEnc. It originally started out in Europe but is now seen on other servers around the world.
Decoder works more efficiently with external drives such as Zip drives.