Usernet app & anything else I need...

Peerzy · 7 Sep 2012 at 22:54

Just got my first Mac and need a decent free Newsgroups application, I use Newsleecher on my Windows PC but have used Grabit in the past. Bit of Googling pointed me in the direction of Unison. No idea if it's any good, or what the free version includes.

I've used Transmission before as a Torrent client on a work Mac and found that perfectly fine, assume there is nothing better that is free and I should carry on using that?

Anything else worth grabbing as a must have application for a first time Mac owner?

Thanks

Matthew.M · 7 Sep 2012 at 22:57

Unison.

I bought it, excellent piece of software. 6 day free trial if you download it from their website.

Peerzy · 7 Sep 2012 at 22:59

Not keen on spending any money as I've already bought Newsleecher for the PC. Would rather just have a free version on my Mac as a 'just encase' option.

Another thought, I usually need to VPN into my work network, Windows 7 just does this using the VPN feature, can OSX or what should I get to allow me to do this? Already got the Microsoft RDP Mac application installed.

Infidelus · 7 Sep 2012 at 23:04

Could try SABnzbd. I believe there's a MAC version. I run it on my Synology NAS, and it does the job nicely ... and it's free

MichaelHo · 7 Sep 2012 at 23:22

Yep SABnzbd is all that you need my friend.

Rameses · 7 Sep 2012 at 23:42

Unison gets my vote!

AbsenceJam · 7 Sep 2012 at 23:45

uTorrent Mac and SABnzbd.

Peerzy · 8 Sep 2012 at 10:24

MichaelHo said:
Yep SABnzbd is all that you need my friend.

Yeah tried it last night and seem fine, dead easy to use and very small footprint. Exactly what I need as a Newsreader that I won't use much. I can RDP into my Windows box if I want to grab loads of files via Newsleecher.

What's the best .nfo reader? I normally use GetDiz.

MichaelHo · 9 Sep 2012 at 23:41

Peerzy said:
Yeah tried it last night and seem fine, dead easy to use and very small footprint. Exactly what I need as a Newsreader that I won't use much. I can RDP into my Windows box if I want to grab loads of files via Newsleecher.

What's the best .nfo reader? I normally use GetDiz.

Have you tried opening a .nfo with textedit? As that's OSX version of notepad/wordpad.

Peerzy · 10 Sep 2012 at 10:55

MichaelHo said:
Have you tried opening a .nfo with textedit? As that's OSX version of notepad/wordpad.

Yeah it opens, just wasn't as pretty as GetDiz but no issues.

Does anyone here play Football Manager on the Mac and also on PC?

I have my main game running on my Win 7 PC, and want to be able to play the save on the Mac as well. Running the save game (1.02GB) over the network means it takes about 15 minutes to load so my other option was to keep the save on an SD card or something. Am I overlooking anything?

Any other applications worth grabbing? I've got VLC and that's about it.

I'm also a bit confused on how to get the Twitter and FB thing into the Notification Bar, I can't see anywhere to enter my Twitter or FB login?

Phate · 10 Sep 2012 at 13:25

SABnzbd I use all the time for...stuff. Its great. Works wonderfully!

GSXRMovistar · 10 Sep 2012 at 15:01

Anyone used both Unison and SABnzbd for a period of time? I've been using Unison for sometime now and wondered if SABnzbd offers anything extra?

Darryn · 10 Sep 2012 at 15:15

I use SabNZB along with Sickbeard, these two programs work great together... Don't know if Sickbeard works with Unison at all?

Also, I run newsleecher within Parallels8 just for the Supersearch function.