It makes work with the Usent as easy as "drag-n-drop" for novice users, while more advanced users will enjoy the power and control it offers.

Ozum's built-in search engine makes this task as easy as using Google.

Your ISP does not have to know what you are downloading. Data is encrypted on news server and decrypted on your computer. Nobody in the middle can intercept it.

Using Ozum active binary groups directory, you can browse Usenet contents as a giant Web site. You point and click on what you want. You can download whole sets of hundreds of files with a single mouse click.

Ozum is a binary newsreader designed and built to work with multimedia content of the Usenet, such is images, video and sound files

Unlike other commercially available products, Ozum's multimedia sampling allows users to make informed decisions on whether they want the multimedia object(s) or not before they download it.

Ozum automatically downloads, assembles and decodes binary files.

Ozum is an on-line and off-line newsreader, a fully programmable news robot/scanner and an autoposter. All 3 applications are designed specifically to access and manage multimedia content of the Usenet! Plus, you can use it to manage your collections of pictures.

Ozum's multimedia sampling allows you to make informed decisions on whether you want the multimedia object(s) or not before you download it.

It is the only newsreader that allows you to view or listen to individual parts of multipart audio/video files (mpg/mpeg, avi, asf, rm, mp3, wav) without having to download and assemble the whole file.

You can retrieve and pre-play individual parts of multipart audio and video files. Because these parts are usually much smaller than the whole file, viewing parts at different points of the file is an economic and fast way to get an idea of whether you want the whole file before you’ve wasted a considerable amount of your time on downloading and assembling it. Another use of this unique feature is that now you can peek inside of multipart audio/video files that are not complete on your server. Before, you could not assemble incomplete files and thus, you could not play them. Now, you can peek, play and save them on your hard drive even if the file is incomplete! You can salvage it! Download a free trial version of Ozum and see how it works.

Ozum is an absolute must have for users on a volume based downloading plan with their ISP, facing large bills for downloading stuff they didn't really want. It is useful for everyone who would like to have more bang for their buck and time.

It does not matter what encoding was used to post article. You don't have to know or worry about it. Ozum will detect it automatically and decode the file to its original state.

The basic paradigm of Ozum is simple. Ozum makes working with the multimedia content on the Usenet as easy as working with your hard drives. If you find using Windows Explorer easy, you will find using Ozum easy, too. You can think of Usenet news servers as your remote hard drives to which you have to connect before accessing their contents, and you can think of Usenet newsgroups as directories on these hard drives. Once you have subscribed to the newsgroups of your choice, posting files to the Usenet and downloading files from the Usenet becomes as easy as copying files from one directory to another on your hard drives. Just drag-n-drop ‘em!

To work with the large diversity of info on the Usenet, you may find it convenient to group similar newsgroups together. You can do this using projects. For example, you can have a Music project, a Humour project, a Family project, a Work project, etc. If you are a dad, you might want to protect your kids or protect yourself from curious kids by creating a DadsOwn project and locking it with a password. If desired, you can also lock Ozum so that a password is required to add a new newsgroup to a project. If this is done, no undesired newsgroups can be added to a project, and thus accessed, without this password. Locking is optional, but can be enabled at any time, even for old, existing projects. If a project is not locked, Ozum will not request a password.

Ozum is a multithreaded application. It does not impose a limit on number of concurrently running downloading/posting jobs. For example, you can be automatically scanning a couple of groups and browsing a third one simultaneously. The number of jobs that you can run simultaneously is limited only by resources of your computer (RAM, CPU), your connection speed and number of connections that your news servers let you use.

Ozum can be programmed to perform its tasks at the times you want, with the periodicity you want, in completely automatic mode. This includes establishing and terminating Internet connections. In fact, you can setup as many automatic scanning jobs as you want, program them to be performed periodically, leave Ozum running, and never touch it again. You will just find the results of its work (downloaded files and articles) in the directories you assigned.

This feature is convenient if you want to see only one article per a multipart post. To do it, select Brief mode. If you want to follow discussion threads, select Threaded mode.

You can have as many of them as you want. Ozum does not place any limits on these numbers.

You can filter out articles based on their poster, words in the subject field, type and size of attachment, and a variety of other properties. Filters can be applied to lists of articles in the groups, so that you can completely ignore articles that you don't want to see. You can also apply filters when scanning newsgroups in automatic mode to avoid downloading articles that are unlikely to carry something worth downloading.

The autoposter is a part of Ozum. It shares Ozum simple drag'n'drop interface. The autoposter is free, you don't have to register it, its functions won't be switched off after the trial period is over and you are very welcome to continue using it.

Ozum free autoposter is very powerful compared to any other product, including commercial ones. It's features include:

• Unlimited number of posting jobs running in parallel.
• No limits on newsgroups, servers or posted articles.
• All jobs are programmable. You can set time to start/end them.
• Choise of 2 methods of automatic encoding, including yEnc.
• Automatic image indexes and CSV files.
• Automatic splitting of large files when posting.
• Easy drag'n'drop interface.