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Product 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. Phew!
What's new in this version:
- Fixed the "null folder" / "flipped folder" bug in Images view, and related crashing
- Fixed a crash when replying for (mainly) Mac OS X 10.2 users
- Cured a potential bug where files left in the "Download" folder could be removed when they fall off the server
- Unison no longer crashes when a rule has been disabled (unchecked)
- Downloading lots of small files is much faster, and disk activity has been reduced
- Switching groups rapidly in Favorites drawer is now much more reliable
- Downloading thumbnails are still marked as downloading when file list is reloaded
- Applying rules is faster
- "Mark as Read" is now threaded for increased responsiveness
- Message divider can no longer accidentally be set all the way to the top
- Unison now recognizes unquoted MIME boundaries
- The last-used posting Personality is now remembered per group
- Threading loaded messages is faster
- Removing a server from the Preferences now cleans up the associated database files
- Music now stops playing when you switch groups via the favorites drawer
- The message list no longer hits the database to check if a file is downloading
- Message databases are now decoupled from the newsgroup database (nerd translation: "it's faster")
- Group window is no longer confused by favorites drawer switches
- Fixed problem with wrong row height in files list after switching with favorites drawer
- NZB downloads no longer grab a incorrect file if the message is no longer on the server
- Error text from a failed download no longer spills over to the next download
- Retrying a failed downloads now properly removes alert badge, error message
- Canceling all downloads no longer leaves cancel button active
- Replying with some selected text no longer shifts the selection by two characters
- Changing number of downloads in prefs no longer fires up paused downloads
- Thumbnail images no longer wait until all loading's done to redraw
- Fixed a issue involving posting a message with a long line at the very end
- Fully-previewed songs are no longer left in the Cache folder when downloaded
- Fixed potential issue with file "kill" rule sometimes scrambling message threading
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Screenshots:
 Working with "Files" view in Unison |
Unison's iPhoto-like "Images" view |
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| Overall Rating: |   (3.6) |
Features: | (3.8) |
Support: | (4.4) |
| Ease of Use: | (4.2) |
Quality / Stability: | (3.0) |
Price: | (3.4) |
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Unison is really, really good - Version: 1.8.1, 11/30/2008 02:55PM PST
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astarte--2008
Great Newsreader - Version: 1.8.1, 5/27/2008 04:34AM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
Macman2004I used to use 1.8.0 and the SSL crashing bug used to drive me crazy, but after downloading 1.8.1 it works like a dream now.
On a side note, has anyone managed to get it working through a proxy/SOCKS setup? Just curious as I heard it is possible...
The program is a little pricey, but it is definitely worth it.
Cheers!
S.
NOT Shareware - Version: 1.8.1, 2/27/2008 04:35PM PST
(3 of 6 users found this comment useful)
eatme3726
The only thing I would change is the way that filters are handled. I would like for them to be not just highlighted, but sorted to the top of the page, prioritized. The kill filter did not seem to work at all though.
It's totally worth the price. I just love it.