Unison 1.7.7 review
DownloadUnison is a carefully-crafted, genuinely revolutionary Mac OS X Usenet newsreader.
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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.
Unison features 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.
Here are some key features of "Unison":
Four Ways To Browse
Messages, files, music, and photos at their best
Easy and Powerful
That famous Panic mix: power and elegance!
Live MP3 Streaming
Preview audio files directly off your server!
Image Thumbnails + Groups
Download, preview, and view tons of images
Breakthrough File Grouping
Not just parts into files, but files into file groups
Message Threading
Incredibly easy parsing of lengthy discussions
Dock Status
See your active downloads at a dock-glance
Signatures
Your favorite Monty Python quote on each post
Quick Search
Type a few words to zero in on what you want!
Easy Server Setup
Quickly switch between news servers
Customizable Favorites
Just drag-and-drop to arrange your favorites
Group Browser
Use the column view to quickly find groups.
Limitations:
15 day trial: after, favorites are disabled
10 minute limit.
What's New:
Fixed issue switching to File or Music view in Mac OS X 10.5 Developer Preview ("Leopard")
Fixed problem with bad timer causing endless redrawing on Leopard
Fixed linking problem preventing Unison from launching on Leopard
Previewed items are now automatically removed from transfers window when preferences says they should
Downloads should now have progress bar when resumed from a previous error
Cache folder rearranged for easier clearing
Changed "Empty Image Cache" menu item to "Empty Preview Cache"
Unison no longer deletes /Application Support/Unison/ if prefs file missing/corrupted
Connections now close themselves after inactivity
Added command-option-w keyboard shortcut to close all windows
Fixed potential crash when changing system date format
Previewed songs are no longer cleared from cache when you switch to another song without stopping
Now reconnects and resumes if we get a timeout while loading headers.
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