EZ Global Search gives members of Easynews the ability to easily search Usenet newsgroups on their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Using a simple and intuitive interface users can filter down to the content they are looking for. This means you don't have to pinch and zoom the Easynews Global Search form in Mobile Safari to perform a search!
Attention iPad Users: EZ Global Search is now Universal for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. It uses the full resolution of the iPad. We plan to introduce additional iPad specific features and layout enhancements in the coming versions.
A bunch of new features have been added in v1.6. Now users can:
- Search by Keyword
- Filter by FileType, Date Range, Size Range, Extension, Newsgroup, Collapse sets
- View results with thumbnails for image and video files
- Click a thumbnail to view the full sized image (video thumbnails too!)
- Email image to friends or Save them to your iOS photo gallery
- Select multiple files and send them to the Zip Manager.
- Redesigned Zip Manager Tab lets you easily view your queued files in a new iOS friendly format or using Easynews' Web view
- NZB Support: Send NZB files to download apps
- Post detail screen displays all available data for each file type including:
-- Audio: duration, bit rate, sample rate, ability to play audio sample, file size, and more.
-- Video: duration, bit rate, sample rate, resolution, ability to view video thumbnail screens, file size, and more.
-- Photos: resolution, thumbnail preview, file size.
- Quickly view and search within your Easynews "Favorite Newsgroups"
- Push posts URLs to popular 'download apps' like GoodReader, iCab Mobile, Filer, Downloads, ReaddleDocs, Atomic Web Browser and others. These apps can open and play these files in their native players or other apps (even AVI files if VLC Player is installed as well!)
- New app support for NAS/NZB Apps: SABMobile, SynoLoad, QGetMobile
- Easily view your Saved Searches within your Easynews account (with auto-search nightly hit counts)
- AirPlay Audio support. Easily STREAM iOS compatible audio files and push them to your AppleTV (still trying to work out video support, sorry)
- Save a new search to your Easynews Account to quickly search at another time.
- Choose the port connections should be made through (80, 81, SSL 443, SSL 81)
- View your Gig Bank data
- NEW! Universal for iPad and iPhone. Use on your iPad in Full Resolution!
- And much more!
Whats next: We're happy to finally get the new Zip Manager tab in there for you. Next we are going to focus on much needed improvements to the search results screens. Better result options (like thumbnails only) and sorting features are planned.
If you've previously reviewed the app and are happy with the new Zip Manager and new download apps that have been added, please consider revisiting your review.
EZ Global Search is an Official 3rd Party App Provider of Easynews and requires web-Usenet access via Easynews Classic, Plus or Big Gig accounts. If you use Easynews you will love EZ Global Search. If you aren't an Easynews user and are looking to access usenet on your iOS devices, give EZ Global Search a try. You can sign up for a free Easynews 14-Day free trial.
