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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:
- Added binary file posting! Hooray!
- Added segmenting option, so large binary files can be split into smaller files on upload
- Added PAR2 creation, so a set of recovery files can be generated on upload
- Added support for crossposting and personality selection when uploading
- Added a "Crossposts:" rule allowing you to filter on crossposted group names
- Added a "Number of Crossposted Groups" rule.
- (1.7.1) Fixed potential problem with incorrect PAR checksums
- (1.7.1) Fixed a problem with incorrect "Reference" headers
- Improved the grouping algorithm
- Fixed a potential problem with missing file parts after doing a "Get Latest"
- Improved handling of open connections when reading messages to reduce server connection limit problems
- Incremental image loading in message windows is much faster
- File and image views now scroll after "Mark Read" to top previous visible
- Fixed annoying window position memory after window tiling
- Added "Empty Message Cache" to Groups window contextual menu
- "Text Encoding" menu moved to "View" menu
- Views now refresh at midnight so "Today" becomes "Yesterday"
- Improved "Mark Read" on open message threads with other messages selected
- Marking all unread is much faster now
- Deselecting a message before it's done loading no longer does weird things
- Closing message view during loading no longer confuses up main window text view
- Download queue now remembers if it's paused between sessions
- Download queue should retry failed downloads after it's done
- Can no longer add the same group to a favorites folder twice
- File groups now reflect changed size after files inside marked read
- Fixed problem with message composer not using user's message font
- Rot-13 accuracy on selection has been improved. Heh.
- Can now handle MIME posts without file names
- Clearing cached images is much faster
- Fixed problem with badly spaced toolbar icons
- Fixed problem loading weirdly-formatted image posts
- Fixed problem with file groups having green dot even though there's an incomplete file inside
- Groups window now updates properly after group open, "Refresh Counts", and "Empty Cache"
- Expanded file groups now stay open after "get more" or "get latest"
- Pause/resume button in download window is now correct when starting up paused
- Unison now will download incomplete files in NZB files
- Fixed various crashes and miscellaneous problems
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- 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: |  (5.0) |
Features: | (4.7) |
Support: |  (4.3) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (4.0) |
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Unison is really, really good - Version: 1.8.1, 11/30/2008 02:55PM PST
(0 of 1 users found this comment useful)
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.