NewsBin Pro 5.34

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• Price: Free to try (Nag screen and paused downloads after 10 days); $35.00 to buy (Buy it now)
• Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000
• Date added: May 18, 2007
• Total Downloads: 438,900
• Downloads last week: 152
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• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 44 votes
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What's new in this version:

Version 5.34 adds Search Usenet option for posts matching your search criteria, built-in RAR processing: autoRAR combines split RAR files and extracts the contents, supports SSL to be secure when using news servers providing SSL connections.

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• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 44 votes
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• 1 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: NewsBin Pro 5.34

  "How the hell do you use this piece of crap"

  by ctc33 on July 21, 2007

  Cons: hard to use, not intuitive, headers not displayed on screen and tutorial so out of date it may just as well not be there. 0/10 for effort, no stars at all, I only clicked on one because you can't leave that bit blank

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• 1 stars

  Version: NewsBin Pro 5.34

  "Never again"

  by Russbo50 on June 8, 2008

  Pros: The interface looks a lot better than it used to. Set up was easy.

  Cons: I have used Newsbin Pro for a long time. Changed computers and decided to go with the new program. It took four hours just to figure out how to download headers. I can only imagine the frustration of someone new to this. I'm really glad I tried the free download before buying. Now I need to find a newsgroup reader that is usable.

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• 2 stars

  Version: NewsBin Pro 5.34

  "Needs Serious Work!!"

  by jayw654 on January 3, 2008

  Pros: it works well as a downloader without SSL but not good for much else. But the program is the best out there and that's not really saying much.

  Cons: Yeah i actually bought the program. The writer of this program is slow to fix bugs. SSL doesn't work very well and is needed the most (everyone knows the reason why it's needed so bad so i won't go into it). SSL connections tend to be unstable they will try to connect to several different files at once rather than working together one 1 file and going to the next. It will catch and correct itself most times but still you can tell it not very well written for SSL. so if you use 8 connections it will try to say for example connect to rar's 1-8 rather than using all 8 connections to complete rar number 1. Sometimes this issue will cause corrupted data on SSL. He says it's a downloader only but i still say uploading is important and this program doesn't do that too well, it will do it but it tends to run blind and is hard to see if everything is actually working okay. The User interface looks dated but hey you might like the mid 1990's look. Even the icons look dated and they were recently added. At the time of writing the review the production release was 5.35 and the latest beta is 5.40 b11 64bit. He charges for the search feature that's within the program guess he's greedy, why not add binsearch into the software? Then searches would be free for everyone. Heck alt.binz did it, that was one of the best ideas, then end users can have an integrated search without paying. But even still don't pay for the search feature use www binsearch info or www nzbindex nl . Bottom line If you want to buy it then you'll get the best but as i said that's not saying much i feel people should get a free binary downloader then maybe he'll get off his butt and write some major fixes rather than small bug fixes.

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• 3 stars

  Version: NewsBin Pro 5.34

  "Lots of potential but clunky to use and slow"

  by rjmayer on September 24, 2008

  Pros: Grouping capability is nice, as is ability to search across all groups.
  Filtering capability is enticing, although not as good as it could be.
  It handles very large groups better than some other readers (150M headers)

  Cons: Slow, especially on searches, which are orders of magnitude slower than other readers.
  UI is hard to get used to, not intuitive at all, with different windows, all of which have tabs, and lots of different info hidden in different places.

  Summary: I've seen reviews saying this is the best newsreader out there, but this has so many serious flaws that in the end its no better than newleecher or grabit. One just has to choose which flawed product to put up with.
  
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