Usenetic

Name: Usenetic
Price: 19.90 $
Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)

1.3.2

21 November 2019

Usenet client with MegaSearch.

Overview

With Usenetic, you search, download, and post articles from/to usenet. It has its very own search engine with a retention of almost 10 years.

Features

MegaSearch with 3347-day retention
Search engine includes general and erotica newsgroups
Keyword search on subject, newsgroup, poster, file-size, and any combination
Filter to exclude password protected files
Filter to exclude obfuscated titles
Watchdog auto search and download
Full NZB support, import and export
Download statistics
Very fast auto-repair and extract
Auto-join files
Auto-correct reversed filenames
Bandwidth speed limiter
Post messages to usenet
Post binaries to usenet
Cleanup unwanted files
Download individual files
Supports unlimited news-servers
Supports unlimited backups-servers

What's new in Usenetic

Version 1.3.2:

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micmac-2

07 April 2019

Most helpful

Wow! I learned only today (!) there was a new Usenet newsreader on Mac!
It's more than 30 years I do Usenet and I used the FIRST EVER GRAPHIC NEWSREADER ON NeXT computer!!!
I was delighted with it but right now don't remember the name! (I'm sure it's in some forgotten folder somewhere in my brain…)
Then, years after, was Unison but right now it always finish to get stuck in some inferno!
So I'm delighted to know there is an alternative and post this even before trying it!!!!!
Because I'm sure it's THE thing!

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Version 1.2.8

I purchased Usenetic a year ago and now they want 10Euros/year to use the search feature. That's not mentioned in the original purchase price, which is why I dropped a star . All in all, ~ $11/year for Usenet access isn't to bad. I'll probably drop my other news provider ($8/mo) given how useful MegaSearch is with Usenetic.

Version 1.3.1

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Xorox BV

01 July 2019

It certainly was and still is mentioned very clearly on the order page.

This is what the order page clearly says:

"MegaSearch is included in your Usenetic order for a period of 1 year.
After this period you can optionally extend this Search service for €9.99 a year."

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micmac-2

07 April 2019

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Version 1.2.8

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Hermie

21 November 2019

I'm sorry, but Usenetic is NOT a complete regular Usenet client. Version 2 should become just that, according to an email exchange with the developer. Summer 2019 it was going to happen, but it didn't and became rather quiet. At the moment the only other alternative on Mac is Hogwasher, which can be got at https://www.asar.com/hogwasher.html MacUpdate please note, this new one line continuous scrolling window to reply in doesn't work very well. It's also impossible to give line feeds et cetera.

Version 1.3.2

Most awesome MAC binary news grabber I've ever seen! Don't have to keep a Windoze VM around to use newsleecher anymore...

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Version 1.2.2

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Xorox BV

24 November 2018

Thanks for the comment :) Highly appreciated.

Ten minutes into the trial period of Usenetic I decided to purchase. It's that good. I've been using newsreaders for almost thirty years and currently vacillate between Unison and Hogwasher. The Usenetic interface is clean and efficient. What clinched my purchase was MegaSearch. My experience of global Usenet searches with other clients has been negative. Too many false hits including too many malicious fakes. Usenetic uses its own mammoth search database and claims ten years' retention, which I can well believe. Within seconds I'd found and downloaded ancient binaries that I thought lost forever. Astonishing. You pay for use of MegaSearch. One year is included in the Usenetic purchase price, and after that it's about ten euro per year. If you're a heavy Usenet user, Usenetic with MegaSearch is a no-brainer. The feature set is amazing. NZB implementation and compilation of files works like a charm, with plenty of visual feedback on progress. I only wish I'd found this software earlier.

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Version 1.2.0

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Xorox BV

08 November 2018

I appreciate the kind words, thank you.

This is exactly what macOS has been needing for a long time - Unison was awesome but this is way way better in my opinion. Fantastic piece of software and it's really just getting started.

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Version 0.95.1

neartheredrocks

16 March 2018

I wonder whether the developer stopped working on this application (and the database and/or search engine behind it). Since one or two months the search results are becoming more and more incomplete.

Version 0.94.1

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Xorox BV

03 April 2018

A new version will be released this week.

For the MegaSearch feature we are using 4 different usenet providers to make sure we get the most completed news feed. If some posts are listed as incomplete then most properly the poster hasn't completed the post at his end. We can't do anything about that.

In case you are missing complete posts then please contact us directly or use our support forum so we can dig into it to find the reason. This forum is not the place to start such a discussion.

Thank you.

Been using Usenetic for about a year now. Takes a bit of getting used to since it is search-based, and not browse-based (as are the major alternatives). However, once I got used to performing a search as the basis for every action, I quickly began to appreciate the power of this application. Usenetic does everything a traditional browse-based Usenet application does (and extends simple browsing by allowing you to browse files in multiple newsgroups at the same time), and in addition, allows you to slice and dice the results you see by implementing powerful search filters (similar in power to Google search terms). In short, Usenetic is an outstanding newsgroup browser and a powerful tool for mac users who wish to access Usenet newsgroups.. Definitely worth trying out.

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Version 0.94.1

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