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3 out of 6 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: News Rover 11
"Very interestingly.Useful product."
Pros: Professional work, idea good. Useful product.
Good interface
Cons: But very large price.
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1 stars
Version: News Rover 11
"I'd give it minus 5 if I could"
Pros: Under XP the computer is almost unusable when News Rover is doing anything. When asked to download the headers from a large group the download stops every minute or so to organise and sort the list it currently has then appears to start from the beginning again. As a result it takes forever. If downloading something the search function just stops working. I could go on (and on and on) but I'll just finish by saying - it's garbage.
Cons: The uninstall feature worked :)
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4 stars
Version: News Rover 11
"Amazing, except some difficulty with yEnc"
Pros: This well-written program, once properly set up, downloads newsgroup posts and attachments extremely fast in the background. I find that the program is often waiting for me, rather than the other way around. This program makes downloading individual JPG and MPG files easy, and puts them in their own folder (usually somewhere in C:\Program Files\Newsrover\Projects\).
Cons: The program doesn't explain why it keeps starting and stopping. The "suspend for one hour" feature is extremely annoying. Why does clicking "Run" have no effect? I feel like the program is taunting me with the "sitting dog" and "running dog" icons that often don't seem to do anything. Why does searching for yEnc files (via setting in AutoInterest Group configuration) not turn any up, even when I know they are there from looking at the same newsgroup in OE? The program supposedly has support for yEnc, but I have yet to figure out how to download and decode a multipart video encoded using yEnc. For example, let's say I'm in Micro$loth's Outlook Express and I see Movie 1/15 yEnc, 2/15 yEnc, 3/15 yEnc, and so on, up to 15/15. When I go to Newsrover, I either can't find the movie, or find it but can't download and combine the parts. I wish the author of Newsrover would explain how to work with yEnc in more detail.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: News Rover 11
Cons: This is some of the most badly written software I've ever used. The interface is like something written in the 1980s: clunky and not at all intuitive. By far the worst aspect though is that it is a resource hog. As I write this my PC is all but unusable as NewsRover is downloading the message list from a news group with a large number of messages. The hard disk is being hammered, NewsRover is using 99% of CPU and everything else has ground to a virtual standstill. Perhaps their programmers forgot that people may want to continue using their computer while NewsRover is doing its stuff.
Give this heap of junk a wide birth.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: News Rover 11
Pros: It's ease of use plus the ability to setup all kinds of filters to allow you to zero in on only the items you are looking for make this the perfect news reader.
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