XanaNews

XanaNews is a software solution that enables you to read news without actually needing to open your web browser, as well as import articles and add bookmarks.

The installation process does not last very long, while you are met with a pretty well-organized layout. It is comprised of a menu bar, several buttons and a few panes in which to view various information. Comprehensive Help contents are included, thus ensuring that all types of users can find their way around XanaNews, without facing any difficulties.

First and foremost, you should know that it is possible for you to add a large number of accounts with the help of a wizard. This requires to input information such as account and server name, and login credentials (if necessary). All of these can be organized in groups, and are displayed in the main window in a folder structure, so that you can manage them in a more efficient fashion.

With just a click of the button you can get all messages from a news server, the ones that were posted after a specified date or all the new ones, while it is also possible to perform a “Quick Get Messages” operation.

It is possible to post messages and attach any file to them, import articles from the hard drive in a TXT file format and save them as HTML, or export it in a compressed manner using an XNS extension.

A search function is put at your disposal, so that you can find a specific message faster, create bookmark sets and add articles to them, as well as set up various batch actions, so as to automate many of the operations you have to perform on a daily basis.

In conclusion, XanaNews is a pretty handy newsreader, which can be used by everybody with ease. The computer’s performance is not going to be hampered as CPU and memory usage is low at all times. Jobs are going to be completed in a timely manner and we did not come by any errors or crashes. Nonetheless, the interface is not particularly appealing.