SonLight Software has done it again with its latest version of, without a doubt, the best Usenet (newsgroup) reader for the Palm OS. Yanoff version 3.2 is packed with features and if you’re an old school netizen, then this should be on your Palm. I used Yanoff way back on my Palm V and was just blown away with it back then. Now, well, it’s like a nuclear bomb hit.

Instead of one program, you now get two ! Bringing Yanoff- and Yanoff+ together in one package (opposites attract?), you now get these great features:

From Yanoff- (freeware by itself):

• Full compatibility with OS4 and OS5 (Garnet) & all new HW models
• Event (e.g. error) and port logging (i.e. uninterrupted polling)
• Multiple download methods (e.g. Batch-Header-now with Body-later)
• Outgoing support for news (NNTP) and simple email (SMTP)
• Context-sensitive, user-definable buttons
• Audible feedback/alerts
• Multiple-server support
• Essential MIME support

Yanoff+ (the commercial version) adds the following:

• Hi-Res, non-square, full/wide, and landscape/rotated screen support
• Selectible fonts (full Fonts4OS5 and FontSubst compatibility)
• Context-sensitive, user-definable actions for FiveWay & JogDial controls
• Progress dialogs and cancel/defer/resume ability for long operations
• Thread caching for radical speed increases in article threading
• Killfile and other Anti-SPAM features
• Authenticated login support for SMTP
• Global Find support
• SentBox option

If this sounds like it’s something you want to Hotsync into your Palm, then take a look at Yanoff’s Web page for more information as well as for the link to download this stellar software.

Update: We originally reported that Yanoff+ and Yanoff- are combined and working together in this release when really Yanoff+ is the full licensed version and does all that Yanoff- does plus more. Our mistake and we thank SonLight Software for pointing this out to us.

[tags]palm,usenet,reader,newsgroups,yanoff-,yanoff+[/tags]