Before you use the program, you need to first provide the NNTP server name.
Choose Config->Servers menu and enter the NNTP server address,
if your server uses a port number other than 119(default), you can enter
it after the server name, separated by a space. Please consult your ISP or
system admin to get the NNTP server address.
The user interface of Pictures In News has two list windows, the one on the left shows available news groups, the one on the right shows the selected groups which you want to retrieve news from. To subscribe to your favorite groups, choose News Groups -> Add Group menu and enter the group name. To fetch all available groups from your NNTP server, choose News Groups->Show All Groups, since there are a great number of groups, this may take quite a while, since the program is multithreaded, you don't need to wait till this process to finish before you start reading news. You may stop the retrieval of the news groups using News Groups->Stop menu. You can use the News Groups->Search Groups to find the groups that match a pattern, which can be a generic regular expression (if you don't know anything about regular expressions, just enter a single keyword such as picture).
To select a group for news retrieval, double click a group on the left-hand side, or select one or more groups on the left and then press the Select button.
To start retrieval of news, press the Fetch Pictures! button, to stop the retrieval, press the same button again.
To view the pictures and other files retrieved for a group, select it on the right-hand side and press the Show session button (or double click the group), it will launch your default browser to view the files.
You may try the software for 30 days, the trial software will pop up a message box after it retrieved some number of pictures.
To register the software, please use the online Order Form .