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DESCRIPTION
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.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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| Unison User Reviews (84 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 12 2009 |
DIVEMATERZA I agree with Yuuko, the app need a bit of a renaissance. The random crashes have never been fixed. GUI is outdated. It starts to look like a "legacy" "obsolete" software. On the other hand amongst very few options out there Unison is still the best out there for me.
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 | Oct 11 2009 |
YUUKO I used to love this application, and still want to love it, but... Panic does not keep us informed. Also, Unison needs badly to be updated, and it should have been WAY before Snow Leopard. Its code needs huge tuning, especially when working with big download lists. It crashes sometimes, and even if you save the list fine, it often gets corrupted. Also, the database is slow ! Groups can be very crowded, and you can do a better job working with the database, saving us time waiting for the damn thing to be updated, filtered, and all. And what about exporting database ? Back-up fonction ? And any new feature many people ask for ? Not talking about the Snow Leopard introduced bugs, other people pointed them out very well: by today's Mac standards, Unison should be labelled as an early beta. Panic really don't care about its customers, but still want us to support them. Guys, that doesn't work this way. I already gave up Transmit for Flow, where I get real support and where app is really updated. What's keeping me to Unison is that there's no alternative, and I am pretty sure you use this fact in order to keep the app unworked on. I have lost faith and respect to you. It's up to you to get them back.
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| Sep 26 2009 |
ROBM52 Not sure what the problem is for others, I got and subsequently paid for this app a few weeks ago and I works great on my Intel iMac running 10.5 (Can't yet say about 10.6). I had been using MT-NewsWatcher, but that's quite out of date now... seems lost in the abyss. As for feedback from the source, I sent a query to unison@panic.com and got my answer a few days later. I'm recommending this for anyone wanting a simple, clean newsreader that's able to download whatever you like. If there's a better newsreader around, I'd like to know! | |
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| Aug 31 2009 |
STANBRAT55 Totally agree with everyone who is not happy with the app. There is one more problem that it has in Snow Leopard: does not preview music files anymore. Bad rating only because the developers do not respond to registered customers. If I knew that - would never spend money on this.
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| Aug 29 2009 |
MACNERD1984 This is in such dire need of an upgrade. I'm genuinely bummed out that I paid for this app, since the attention paid to it is non-existent. It is completely and utterly unacceptable. Feature requests are ignored, the last UD was February 2009 and now with Snow Leopard further bugs are creeping in. The latest is a weird document icon stuck in the top LH corner of every group window.... In addition, we hear nothing from Panic - They need to either EOL it or update it. Sh1t or get off the pot. I'm fed up with spending money with devs who have no intention (or capability) of ever really developing a product past it's current state. Panic clearly have little regard for the people who support their company and as such I wouldn't buy another one of their products. Clearly that won't make a difference to them, but...... There's nothing to say that they won't do the same again for Transmit etc. I just don't get how we now have as little choice as ever (less, in fact) for a Mac News app. There are more devs than ever, more Mac users than ever, the biggest opportunity for someone to do something great and yet we're still stuck with pretty much one app (unsure if Thoth is still around). Big shame - Unison really has promise, made my news experience WAY more pleasant than Thoth/MT Newswatcher and with some TLC could really shine. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to find out what the app needs to bring it up to date so Panic just need to get on it. Hang on, do you think....? No, surely not. Perhaps Panic and Unsanity are really the SAME company... I mean, Unison, ShapeShifter...... ;-)
(Version 1.8.1) | |
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| Aug 27 2009 |
SATYRICA I think Unison is dead. 2.0 should have been dev'd and released a year ago. Unison *was* cool in 2007. There are so many ignored feature requests, and approaching 2 years without an update, it's clear the guys at Panic really don't give a crap. Sad.
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| Sep 14 2009 |
SEBEHK Waiting for almost 2 weeks for a reply from Panic, I got an email from Tim stating "We have a major update to Unison on the way that will address these Snow Leopard issues." | |
| Sep 18 2009 |
SATYRICA These "major issues" are minor, and i doubt the "upcoming" update will be more than bugfixes for lame 10.6 issues. Feature requests? Nope...
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| Jun 21 2009 |
CUNEYT Does anyone know if Unison supports IPV6 newsgroups?
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| Feb 17 2009 |
DOUG S. Honestly? This app is OK. It gets the job done (usually). There are definitely features I would like to see, integrated PAR support for instance, but it does as advertised, again, usually. When you start adding larger NZB files and larger numbers of files to download it starts to act up. Fast. For a start it gets extremely laggy and at times it will fail to respond for a few minutes at a time. Then there are the times when it says it's downloaded all the files only I find it only did about half of them. This is extremely annoying when you queue up a few downloads over the night and expect them to be all complete the next morning. Out of the other newsreaders for Mac I've come across this one does rather well but it still has a ways to go. Which is sad for me because I've used and love many of Panic's other products. I think Coda is the single greatest code app for any platform and use it on a daily basis.
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| Feb 27 2008 |
FHALS Coming from all this overall message bloated newsreaders, this one is a crystal. If your not interested in zillions of headers and don't like to hand pick binaries between them, Unison is your friend. This one stops waisting your time.
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| Dec 30 2007 |
CASTLE Unison is still in dire need of a major update. Aside from the many needed bug fixes I'd love to see video previews and far more control over the download queue - preferably the ability to queue and schedule NZBs separately!
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