My Junkyard

Yes, I’m still in need for a good usenet download application for the mac. Since I’ve started my search for a good binary downloader for my mac I started missing my windows machine…. Not really I still have windows on my Mac, but only for easy downloading from the binary groups… For now I use nzbdrop but I steel think this is not what I need however it does the job if you have a NZB file. I’ll try and put down some working methods later this week to see if any of you can help me improve my working scheme…

Leave a comment if you want!

I see a lot of people looking for a download link to nzbdrop. You can download it here!

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In my previous post I started looking at a suitable usenet grabber. Basicly all I wanted was an application which made it possible to download stuff in an easy way.

The application should be easy to use and do as many tasks for me as possible. So basicly I just want to drag and drop .nzb files into the application and the downloading should start. Multiple server support is not needed since I don’t use multiple servers at the moment. 

Below you can see the list of apps I’ve tried.  Unfortunatly Igrabnews seemed like the best option for me but it seems unsupported and outdated for Leopard at the moment.

Conclusion is that I have NOT found an application that fullfills my need. As I mentioned before I used ALtbinz before on my Windows based machine and will now start using it in a windows emulator on my mac.  Simply because the application is so damn good. It does the downloading / parring and unrarring automaticly! Maybe I’ve missed the one application that does this on a mac, if so please LET ME KNOW…

For all you mac devellopers out there maybe you can have a look at Altbinz and come up with something similar for my mac. I know I’ll instantly buy and use it!

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