NewsTap - Usenet Newsreader
NewsTap History
Version 3.5
- Support for iOS 5
- The badge on the App icon with the number of unread articles can be switched off
- Custom Headers can be now added to the postings (like the X-No-Archive header).
- On the iPad you can now select between a two-column layout or the old layout with three sections.
- The "Lite" version is now also available for the iPad
Version 3.2
- Support for the "Print" feature of iOS 4.2 so you can now print postings.
- When switching to another App while writing a new posting under iOS 4, the posting will be now saved automatically, so it doesn't get lost anymore when NewsTap is terminated while it is in the background.
- Fixes an issue when sending a follow-up to a posting where the quoting uses hard-coded line breaks and the standard maximum line length was already reached.
- Fixes an issue with links which are split up by line breaks
Version 3.1
- iOS4 support: Download of articles can be done while the App is in the background
- Filters can be now also used to filter (sub-)threads.
- Fixed an issue with HTML postings whoch are also base64 encoded.
Version 3.0
- NewsTap is now a Universal App and includes optimized user interfaces for iPhone/iPod Touch and the iPad
- On the iPad the complete thread can be displayed as tree.
- ROT13 support when writing new articles.
- Bugfix: When creating new postings (not follow-ups) the signature was not added automatically.
Version 2.1
- When loading very large group lists from the server, NewsTap could run out of memory
- The email link in the support help page didn't work correctly
- Bugfix for multipart messages wjere the text part is encoded with "quoted-printable"
Version 2.0
- Support for multiple servers implemented
- Artciles can be saved as favorites
- Improved user interface
- It's now possible to load the headers only (can be configured individually for each group). The articles will then be loaded only when necessary (when opening them for reading)
- Croatian translation included (thanks to Alen Bajo).
- Export/Import of settings and newsrc files is now done via Web Browser on your Mac/PC, so this feature is now completely independant of the operating system.
- ROT13 is supported now.
- All downloads will be now done in the background. You don't need to wait any more until the downloads are finished.
Version 1.6
- Hiding/unhiding the read articles was not possible within the article list when Thread grouping was enabled.
- Saving images didn't always work when multiple images were embedded in one article
- Encrypted SSL connections are now also supported.
Version 1.5.3
- Marked search results in an article can be removed by shaking (iPhone OS 3.0)
- Removed all conflicts with the NewsTap gestures and the new Copy & Paste gestures of the iPhone OS 3.0.
- The signature can be now defined for multiple lines as well
Version 1.5
- Added a build-in web browser to be able to open links in artciles within the app.
- Now, groups can be also added manually into the "All Groups" list.
- Added a search feature (search within groups/threads and within articles)
- New setting for the sort order
Version 1.4
- It's possible to switch off the autorotation
- Workaround fpr the GigaNews server implemented
- New setting to sort the articles (by subject or date)
Version 1.3
- The tabs "Groups" and "Outgoing" will be now disabled while artciles are loaded.
- Bugfix: If the user quit the app while writing a new article/posting, the unfinished article was lost.
- Reduced the memory usage for exporting/importing newsrc files.
- While responding an article via private mail it's now possible to add the article as quote into the mail.
- Added some workarounds for buggy usenet servers.
- New ways implemented to shorten the quoted article when writing a follow-up article.
Version 1.2
- Restructured the build-in help
- Added filters fo articles.
- New setting for the default text encoding
- Articles can be now grouped by threads
- Aborting the server connection is now much faster.
- Optimized the loading of the articles.
Version 1.1
- New button added in the navigation panel to delete all articles of an auther
- Bugfix for the encoding ISO-2022-JP which caused some problems in combination with "flowed" formatted articles.
- In case quoted-printable encoded headers which were declared as UTF8 encoded were not UTF8 encoded, NewsTab will try other encodings as well.
- Importing newsrc files didn't work for files larger than 4 KB.
- Workaround for News servers implemented, which require name and password but never ask for name and password.
- Workaround for the TerraNews server implemented.
- Debug Console implemented
Version 1.0