Newsgroup software for the Mac?

Raider · 3 Feb 2008 at 19:40

Thinking about ditching my home PC to replace with a Mac Mini. I'm looking for some good Newsgroup software. I'm using News Rover on the PC atm, so something similar that's good at handling binaries would be good

So any tips?

schoey · 3 Feb 2008 at 19:59

i use nzb drop

GraemeUK · 3 Feb 2008 at 20:05

Unison is great. Quite cheap too.

http://www.panic.com/unison/

Rameses · 3 Feb 2008 at 21:17

GraemeUK said:
Unison is great. Quite cheap too.

http://www.panic.com/unison/

IMO The ONLY one worth using!

Acathla · 3 Feb 2008 at 21:20

+1 for unison.
Easy to setup, easy to use.

hyper_piper45 · 3 Feb 2008 at 21:30

I also use unison.

ringo747 · 3 Feb 2008 at 23:19

i tried unison myself but what i really would like is something like grabit for the pc. In unison don't you have to download all the message headers before doing a search for what you want?

skiba · 3 Feb 2008 at 23:20

sabnzbd, awesome little app, hate unison, lacks lots of functionality.

kilvano · 4 Feb 2008 at 01:28

skiba said:
sabnzbd, awesome little app, hate unison, lacks lots of functionality.

Thats what i use combined with SABNZBD-oneclick greasemonkey script for newzbin.com (Only for downloading legal linux distros and the like...not the other stuff obviously

1337z0r · 4 Feb 2008 at 01:53

I use unison, the only one I have tried on my mac. It works for me, the only thing it really lacks is an auto extract like a couple of newsreaders for windows.

hyper_piper45 · 4 Feb 2008 at 10:14

1337z0r said:
I use unison, the only one I have tried on my mac. It works for me, the only thing it really lacks is an auto extract like a couple of newsreaders for windows.

Another thing that bugs me about it is that it does not give a time remaining figure for all my queue.

ringo747 · 4 Feb 2008 at 10:38

do you guys all just use unison by opening an nzb file or do you actually use the search feature? Am i correct in thinking that you have to download all the group headers before searching for what you want?

titchard · 4 Feb 2008 at 12:45

GraemeUK said:
Unison is great. Quite cheap too.

http://www.panic.com/unison/

Another vote for Unison, but if you want a free alternative - iGrabNews is free.

Rich

Raider · 4 Feb 2008 at 13:13

jonnyc747 said:
do you guys all just use unison by opening an nzb file or do you actually use the search feature? Am i correct in thinking that you have to download all the group headers before searching for what you want?

Good question. Can you search through all newsgroups for files?

Using NewsRover on the PC I can search for a file and it'll check through all binary newsgroups, not just the ones I have downloaded on my PC.

ringo747 · 4 Feb 2008 at 13:17

Raider said:
Good question. Can you search through all newsgroups for files?

Using NewsRover on the PC I can search for a file and it'll check through all binary newsgroups, not just the ones I have downloaded on my PC.

grabit has a brilliant search feature which works the same way - downloading the headers is too much of a time waste

killsta · 4 Feb 2008 at 14:22

titchard said:
Another vote for Unison, but if you want a free alternative - iGrabNews is free.

Rich

iGrabNews was great...in Tiger.

Doesn't work at all in Leopard

Chris1712 · 4 Feb 2008 at 14:28

sabnzbd, use on all my OS windows/linux/mac. It rocks, hard.

titchard · 4 Feb 2008 at 15:13

killsta said:
iGrabNews was great...in Tiger.

Doesn't work at all in Leopard

Really?

Well I don't really keep up with apps I don't use I guess!

Shame it was an OK alternative.

Rich

itsallaboutyou · 6 Feb 2008 at 15:49

I've looked at unison as a result of this thread - quite like it!

Cheers..

+1

Tom

ringo747 · 6 Feb 2008 at 16:25

how do you guys go about searching for what you want when using unison? Do you find the nzb file elsewhere and then open it with unison or do you download all the headers and search them?