Newsbin apps for mac?

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Newsbin apps for mac?

Hi,

I have been looking for the longest time for NewsBin app for mac... Maybe im not searching well... I bought a newsgroup membership as most people do to download stuff, also there is a app program that they tell u to download which is only on windows, but im on a mac and im wondering if there is something you MAC GURUS know that canhelp me.

Here are apps for windows
http://www.newsbinpro.com/
http://www.newsbin.com/

is there anything similar for MAC?

Joey

Imac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.5), 20inch Widescreen, 512mb

Posted on Mar 9, 2006 7:33 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 9, 2006 8:33 PM in response to JoeyDee

Maybe Acquisition can help you.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7170

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JoeyDee Author

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Mar 9, 2006 9:00 PM in response to PanchoLopez

Pancho,

Thanks for the reply, but the program you suggested me is a P2P meaning its Bit-Torrent, the application I want is NZB newgroups.

The difference between both is that Newbin is much much faster your not downloading from someone your downloading from the directo sourse so like 4gig movie can take maybe 1 hour 2 hours to download as opposed to 44 days with bittorrent like acquisition.

Please if anyone else can help me that wouldbe great.
Joey

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JoeyDee Author

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Mar 10, 2006 5:44 AM in response to JoeyDee

can anyone help me out?

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Answer 4

Mar 10, 2006 6:15 AM in response to JoeyDee

I use Hogwasher to access netnews. Very nice app, but it is not free.

www.asar.com

Dave

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Mar 10, 2006 7:36 AM in response to JoeyDee

I use slrn (free!) to read news, but I read text groups not multipart binaries and slrn can only access one server at a time...you'd need independent slrn processes to access different servers. I think leafnode (free!), a local article caching server, can present a unified front to multiple upstream servers. Fink has a (free!) package "nget 0.27.1-1 Downloader for binary news postings" but I have no experience with it.

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JoeyDee Author

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Mar 10, 2006 10:47 AM in response to David Whalen

Hi david,

Thanks for the message, however i need something more like an P2P application, this text stuff is too complicated for me. I want to be able to open up my app and type in the movie i want to download and download it within an hour or 2. That's all i wanna do is use this for movies.

But this Howasher is too complicated too much letters

anyone else have another alternative?

Joey

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Answer 7

Mar 17, 2006 7:43 AM in response to JoeyDee

I use Unison. It's very easy to use and I've found that I like it even more than NewsBin for the PC.

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Chris CA

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Mar 17, 2006 7:58 AM in response to JoeyDee

Have you searched on Macupdate.com or versiontracker.com or Mac OS X Downloads

I haven't tried these but here are a few...
Newswatcher X
OSXnews
Unison
MaxNews

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