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Unison is a carefully-crafted, genuinely revolutionary Mac OS X Usenet newsreader. It offers all the expected newsreader functionality: easy-to-navigate threaded discussions, the ability to ignore annoying posters, multiple signature management, and easy, Mail-like posting with spell checking and all the trimmings.
But it also goes much, much further than any other Usenet client on earth, starting with a unique four-view interface that lets you view and work with Usenet
Unison is a carefully-crafted, genuinely revolutionary Mac OS X Usenet newsreader. It offers all the expected newsreader functionality: easy-to-navigate threaded discussions, the ability to ignore annoying posters, multiple signature management, and easy, Mail-like posting with spell checking and all the trimmings.
But it also goes much, much further than any other Usenet client on earth, starting with a unique four-view interface that lets you view and work with Usenet
What's New
Version 2.1.7:
- Adds support for the latest version of Growl
- No longer ignores the backup server setting
- Fixes an issue with automatic update notifications not working
- Fixes an issue with rules not adding files to the queue
- Restarted downloads after relaunch now resume properly
- Post-processing jobs are now serialized
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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| Downloads:106,420 |
| Version Downloads:2,491 |
| Type:Internet : Newsreaders |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:21 Dec 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $29.00 |
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Need a Usenet provider? Get unlimited transfers and SSL encryption for just $10/mo. from Ngroups.
Unison is a carefully-crafted, genuinely revolutionary Mac OS X Usenet newsreader. It offers all the expected newsreader functionality: easy-to-navigate threaded discussions, the ability to ignore annoying posters, multiple signature management, and easy, Mail-like posting with spell checking and all the trimmings.
But it also goes much, much further than any other Usenet client on earth, starting with a unique four-view interface that lets you view and work with Usenet group content in four distinct styles: messages, files, images, or music. It lets you preview MP3 files directly off a Usenet server, view images in an elegant iPhoto-like thumbnail view, prioritize transfers with a flexible downloads manager, find favorites quickly with a categorized column-view interface, smartly group files into meta-groups (like songs into albums), show download status beautifully in the dock, and much more.
Unison is a carefully-crafted, genuinely revolutionary Mac OS X Usenet newsreader. It offers all the expected newsreader functionality: easy-to-navigate threaded discussions, the ability to ignore annoying posters, multiple signature management, and easy, Mail-like posting with spell checking and all the trimmings.
But it also goes much, much further than any other Usenet client on earth, starting with a unique four-view interface that lets you view and work with Usenet group content in four distinct styles: messages, files, images, or music. It lets you preview MP3 files directly off a Usenet server, view images in an elegant iPhoto-like thumbnail view, prioritize transfers with a flexible downloads manager, find favorites quickly with a categorized column-view interface, smartly group files into meta-groups (like songs into albums), show download status beautifully in the dock, and much more.
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Hdo reviewed on 09 Feb 2012
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JoeBlowinski reviewed on 07 Sep 2011
I do understand the allure of NZB downloaders and love and use NZBDrop frequently. Searching NZB sites is handy (Unison can search any NZB url one wants as well.), but I still prefer to browse header listings, because I find things I miss searching NZBs. After all, one has to already know what one is searching for or browse the group listings at sites like Binsearch.info. But, I get tired of browsing lists of endless foreign language posts to find what I want, and I miss things. Now that Unison works, I can filter out what I don't want to see and just deal with what interests me. Creating a folder and putting a bunch of newsgroups in it (e.g., I have seven groups in my audiobook folder.), I get one list of what's available in all seven groups filtered by my rules with no cross posts, and I can choose the interval for when all seven groups are updated with the latest filtered headers. I can't do this with any NZB downloader that I know of. Plus, with a click of a button, I can read the messages associated with those groups which often answer questions I have or gives me a place to ask a question or request a post.
At long last, I can love Unison as much as I've always wanted to. I fully retract my post of 16 Feb 2011. However, rest assured that the incredible improvement I'm lauding proves to be some kind of fluke, I'll let you know.
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Robert Thomson reviewed on 25 Aug 2011
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Yannick-P. reviewed on 18 Jul 2011
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About time; I've got the shaft 3 times from that bug and it's a nightmare - Would be nice to find out what set of circumstances caused it.
I've started using NZBVortex recently for NZB files, and using Unison if I want to browse groups; between the two of them I've got all bases covered but I find myself searching and using NZBV more often these days. Unison seems to have a pretty slow and gradual development path, which is a bit disappointing. Problems, therefore, take a long time to get resolved (like the pref. reset one) and new options/features are sparse. It's a shame, because it's really the only decent, modern, newsreader on the Mac (I don't count the ageing Thoth in that) and Panic seem to just barely keep it alive. It's post processing is horrible though - Always messes up my PARs etc., so I have that turned off and MacPar Deluxe/MacHacha take care of that instead.
There's potential for so much more with Unison, but I'm not sure if we'll ever be fortunate enough to see it.
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Robert Thomson reviewed on 05 Jul 2011
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jwc1957 reviewed on 11 Apr 2011
I get the beachball sometimes (deleting a server will do it) but it recovers eventually.
I know of no other Usenet client in active development that does everything this one does; yEnc and PAR up and down, image thumbnails, audio streaming... I hope Unison is around for a long time.
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NZBVortex is exactly the app i can trust to do the job. I'm leaving it for months on and it never fails.
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Franz reviewed on 07 Mar 2011
Tha patience is gone now.
After using Unison for quite some time I leave it behind. Started using NZB Vortex and loving it. Now i'm unable to post but the downloading is flawless.
It's a pity that a developer isn't capable of developing software that at least works instead of giving trouble.
A waste of money.
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JoeBlowinski reviewed on 16 Feb 2011
Someone tell me, has this thing speed up to be usable? I quit using it because updating the databases of the dozen or so newsgroups I subscribed to would take hours! I'm wondering, is Unison's database management still so slow that my MacPro with four 3 GHz Xeon processors with 10 GBs of RAM will still take 10-12 hours to update my newsgroups databases as it always did? I'm not exaggerating. It was that slow. Support seemed to care during the year or so I complained about this issue, but nothing changed. Can anyone tell me that things have changed? Should I give Unison another whirl?
Those of you looking at this app with no experience should stay away unless someone answers that these long standing problems are fixed. I quit using an app I wanted to love because it was so lame and slow I couldn't stand it any more.
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Another thing this is lacking in is automatically marking cross-posts to other newsgroups as read. This is something Thoth and other newsreaders have been doing for YEARS.
Also, when you want to read more posts, it shouldn't load headers for articles you have already read.
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I actually wrote several times with the developer, all to no avail and pretty much a "We've never seen that problem, so it doesn't exist" attitude. Now with the 2.04 release, it actually says they "fixed" the stalling issue. Not for me, unfortunately. Also, it runs the pars, but doesn't seem to fix the files and re-run the extract. But then it deletes the par files! So I have to re-download the par files, run the par myself to fix the files and extract the download. It works 90% of the time, however, and I think that is a really cool feature that is worth keeping even if it's a little buggy.
Fix the stalling #1. Let me clear the caches myself across all the groups #2. Lastly take a look again at the extraction portion of the app, and it will be a really classy A1 program. I know it's not a big money-maker, but there are those that still like using Usenet. As far as the rest of 2.0 upgrade, it's FANTASTIC. It makes reading groups so much nicer. (Yes, people still use the Usenet for reading!)
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i seem to be having the same issues as yourself with unison 2.
however, i dont seem to carry your usenet expertise... ;o) can you tell me how you use the software to manually download the par's, etc, that are failing?
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Are you sure that Unison works OK if the date and time are set in the computer in a format different to the standard USA format (month, Day, Year)?
This is a common problem in many software created in the USA, and that could explain why I am able to read in some groups (like rec.music.classical.recordings) only postings from today and from the 18th of January of 2006, and nothing in between.
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Program let's you upload some files fine the first time after installing the app.
After that it's impossible to upload Files again. Select "upload" and the program freezes. Only way to quit program is a forced stop.
It's as if something jams after the first upload of files
Dont know if i'm the only one, anyone else with same problem ????
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And because of other issues I was having with Leopard, I reverted to 10.4.11 and Unison 1.7.9, and if anything the problems have gotten WORSE.
It takes forever to make the initial connection to the news server to get article counts, or to open a newsgroup. Downloads fail inexplicably. If I see another "Read failed" error I'm going to scream.
And most annoying? If a newsgroup has several million articles, at some point (even if the article headers aren't all loaded) Unison will open the group, load the new articles and then flash between "Threading" and showing the articles. Infinitely. I've waited as much as ten minutes for it to stop, but it never does. And I have to force-quit Unison to get out of the app.
I've deleted the newsgroups, the preferences and even the app itself. I've flushed the caches, I think I may even have sacrificed a goat to Cthulhu at some point. Some of this helped, but before long it was messing up again.
This is getting ridiculous! I really like Unison, but until something is done about these major problems, I'm going back to MT NewsWatcher. It may not be pretty, but at least it WORKS.
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The download speed is only 50%.
I have no firewall and at my router the ports for my newsserver are open.
Any hints?
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Zuulito rated on 23 Mar 2012
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