It's a good program that needs some work and feature additions/enhancements, particularly the ability to mark posts & groups as read (or in this case, viewed).' The previews let you download only the pictures whose thumbnail preview looks interesting.

This leads to a lot of 'I've already seen these previews!' Still, Diiva is better than downloading hundreds or thousands of pictures and sifting through them to find something good. Also, there is no ability to mark a picture, thread or newsgroup as being read nor are crossposts marked as already read (or viewed). Frequently, however, many pics display 'Preview Not Available' instead of a thumbnail just as frequently, the wrong thumbnail is displayed for some pictures.

For $5.00 a month, you can subscribe to Diiva's preview server, which creates thumbnail previews of most of the files that are posted to the binary graphics newsgroups Diiva then displays those previews on your screen. 'Diiva is a nice program for weeding through the thousands of GIFs and JPEGs that are posted online daily, but it's not without its quirks and shortcomings.

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