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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: April 03, 2001
- Total Downloads: 290,809
- Downloads last week: 403
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- Average user rating: stars out of 128 votes
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Publisher's description
From Shemes :GrabIt is a newsgrabber. Its features include fast selecting, downloading, and decoding of binary attachments; a familiar-looking user interface; and advanced error checking while downloading. Download and decode multiple articles at once. Other features include filters for showing/hiding downloaded or deleted articles, a search option for groups and articles, and a pause function to free bandwidth. Version 1.31b features a total rewrite of the download engine, the ability to clear the find filter, find feature offers more options, bug fixes, and more
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User reviews of GrabIt 1.3.1b build 668
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 128 votes
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10 out of 19 people found this review helpful
Version: GrabIt 1.3.1b build 668
"The easiest Newsgroup program to learn and use."
Pros: Its free.
It has a great interface.
It is very easy to pick up, learn and use.
GrabIt Search is amazing and FREE...as opposed to NewsLeecher requiring you to pay subscription for such a feature ON TOP of the price of the program.
Cons: NZB downloading support is very poor.
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Version: GrabIt 1.3.1b build 668
Pros: Fairly easy to use once you get a news server
Cons: Limits for Free use are 2 Searches and 2 Downloads/Per Day. This means multiple part downloads are useless, making this a useless program for any heavy downloads. This should be catagorized differently on download.com because it is not really FREE. Well ok, its FREE to do absolutely nothing with it.
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: GrabIt 1.3.1b build 668
Summary: The software has a cute logo and if it worked as promised, it might be a worthwhile product. But it doesn't work!!! Any group with decent traffic chokes this software. You will spend a long time downloading headers then nothing will happen. No files... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: GrabIt 1.3.1b build 668
"Excelent program for usenet downloads"
Pros: Easy to use, well thought features and especialy usefull for downloading large chunks of data like movie files.
Cons: Just a bit slower then xnews and no image preview so its less usefull for use with downlods of photo's etc.
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: GrabIt 1.3.1b build 668
Pros: Good concept and user interface. Free (unless you want to activate the search feature).
Cons: A "bulk downloader" this isn't. Works okay on sample groups with a small number of posts, but will crash (or at best process with empty results) any newsgroup you would actually want to download from. The developer is focused on adding more fee-based features, rather than correcting this serious flaw.
I Must agree with other posters about the highly unprofessional support resources on the developer's site. The "large group bug" does not appear in the FAQ. It is not listed in any of the "sticky posts." So instead, users regularly post questions about this and receive replies ranging from the flippant to abusive. After 30 minutes filtering through the hundreds of posts on this topic, you will see this is a major problem that perennially is supposed to be the major focus of the "next version." Yet it remains unsolved, and people are still going through a cycle which ends in a nastygram from forum moderators after hours of fruitless effort.
So until then, why don't they post something about it to save everyone a lot of headache?
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