Note: These screenshots were made on Windows Vista. The unPoster looks exactly the same on Windows XP and the Macintosh.
Below, you see a screenshot of the unPoster's Watcher window. This humble-looking window is the revolutionary part of the unPoster that can't be found in Brand X - at least until the lamers at Brand X, Inc. steal the idea! In old-fashioned news-readers, when you start the program and go into a newsgroup, you have to sit there and wait for it to download the post "headers" - and that can take hours in many binary groups, which often have millions posts. With many old-fashioned news-readers, it is literally impossible to see all the posts in large newsgroups, let alone download them. With the unPoster, you set-up the Watcher with your favorite groups, and let it run in the background. It will then download all the post headers, no matter how many millions there are, analyze them, and then store a list of files in its database. Once the Watcher has downloaded all the posts, it will continuously check each group and download new post headers as they arrive on your news server(s). The end result is that you always have a complete list of files available for downloading at your command with zero time wasted.
Here we see that the Watcher has scanned over 1.5 million headers in two newsgroups as it works its way through a list of five newsgroups on two servers. It has found 130,206 files and is analyzing headers at the rate of 963 per second. To see what files the Watcher has found, we open the Lister window - see below.
Below, you see a screenshot of the unPoster's Lister window. The Lister is where you browse through the files that the Watcher found in your newsgroups. Outside of the NZB method, this is the fastest way to locate files in newsgroups.
Below, you see a screenshot of the unPoster's Downloader window. Each time you click the Download button on the Lister, a new Downloader is created. You can run Downloaders while the Watcher is running, and while you are using the Lister. Here we see the Downloader working on a typical RAR/PAR set. Notice also at the bottom of the Downloader where it shows which files it will use to launch automatic unPARing and unRARing.
