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I’m looking for a Usenet newsreader like this:

• Show posts from a set of newsgroups in one list
• Download all new posts immediately, so I don’t have to wait half a second to view each message
• Show threads in one big nested page, like web forums
• Show new message count in the dock, like Mail or Thunderbird do for mail messages

I’ve never used a newsreader that does all of these things, and I’ve never even seen one that does a few of them. Have you? You should leave a comment below if you know of a reader that I might like.

Thanks to the QTComponents project, you can listen to music in Ogg Vorbis format with iTunes. However, the plugin does not import track numbers, which means iTunes plays albums of Oggs out of order.

A small Python script was posted a year or two ago at Mathieu Fenniak’s weblog which tries to fix this, but it doesn’t support the track numbers in files which also specify a track count (like “5/12″ to mean track 5 of 12).

I’ve fixed the script to support these files. You can download the fixed version here.