Steven Ansell, the guy who drew all the program’s graphics, had never heard of USENET before. The two programs are otherwise similar, though. They share almost no code, because the BeOS and Mac OS X Cocoa APIs are quite different. The Mac OS X version was released five years later, in 2005. Way back in 1999, I started working on the BeOS version of this program, which I unleashed on an unsuspecting public in 2000. As you can see, it uses the traditional three-pane paradigm. It is primarily an offline reader, but it has features and user interface conventions that make it easy to use online also. Pineapple News is a USENET newsreader for Mac OS X. This is where you enter information about your news server. The button on the right side of the header bar with the JPEG icon indicates that the message being viewed contains a binary attachment. The numbers in parentheses are the total unread messages for each newsgroup and account. Note that there are four news accounts configured, three of them “folded up” at the moment. If you are writing a program, you should consider buying your artwork from him.
He really went out of his way to ensure that I was happy with his work. Pineapple News for Mac OS X Pineapple News for Mac OS X
