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Operating System Apple/Mac
Version 1.3.1b1
Software Type Shareware
Cost $10.00 after 30 Day Free Trial

iGrabNews is a fast, efficient, powerful, binary news browser and download manager.

What is iGrabNews?
  1. It is fast, simple and efficient.
  2. It displays multi-part articles (i.e. files) as one article for easy browsing.
  3. It downloads all the articles, and decodes them automatically into one file.
  4. It is 100% Cocoa application (No java, perl...).
  5. It is lighter and faster than any other binary news reader available on OSX (Unison, Bluebeard etc.). It is perfectly fitted for heavy-loaded alt.binaries.* newsgroups that hold hundreds of thousands of articles (i.e. thousands of files).
  6. iGrabNews is not a common newsreader : there is no threaded display of articles, post article is not yet implemented.
  7. iGrabNews supports .nzb files
  8. iGrabNews is a Universal Binary Application
Main features include:
  1. Multi Server.
  2. Multi Groups.
  3. Multi threaded (You can simultaneously download multiple files at the same time).
  4. Download Queue (You can queue hundreds of downloads, that will be processed when connections are available).
  5. Displays multi-part articles as one file to easily browse posted files.
  6. Live display of posted files while refreshing the group.
  7. Live and powerful search among thousands of files.
  8. Incremental and Full refresh of groups.
  9. Automatic decoding (yEnc, uuencode, BinHex).
  10. NNTP Authentication.
  11. Auto refresh groups / Auto get files
  12. Read posts
  13. .nzb file support (with multi server load balancing)
  14. .par2 file auto-repair and auto-pause
  15. Universal Binary (ppc and intel support)


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iGrabNews is a fast, efficient, powerful, binary news browser and download manager.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful
1.
• It is fast, simple and efficient.
2.
• It displays multi-part articles (i.e. files) as one article for easy browsing.
3.
• It downloads all the articles, and decodes them automatically into one file.
4.
• It is 100% Cocoa application (No java, perl...).
5.
• It is lighter and faster than any other binary news reader available on OSX (Unison, Bluebeard etc.). It is perfectly fitted for heavy-loaded alt.binaries.* newsgroups that hold hundreds of thousands of articles (i.e. thousands of files).
6.
• iGrabNews is not a common newsreader : there is no threaded display of articles, post article is not yet implemented.
7.
• iGrabNews supports .nzb files
8.
• iGrabNews is a Universal Binary Application
Overall rating: 
 
2.0
Stability:
 
2.0
Features:
 
2.0
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2.0
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2.0
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2.0
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December 13, 2008
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