Request for Help with Mac

Hi,

A close friend of mine has been gifted a apple laptop. I know PCs inside and out but no nothing of Macs. I tried to help him get set up with usenet like I did with his old PC laptop but despite surfing for quite a while I am just hitting wall after wall and I assume it is because of my ignorance of the Apple OS. I tried searching for 'best usenet client for mac' tried to install one of them but got a 'this isn't a apple store product' error message.

All I need to know is what is a good client to install, that will install and what do apple users use for decompression software (I have always used WinRAR). That should do it. I can muddle around with their "Finder" app for the rest and I imagine configuring the client will be pretty straight forward.

Thanks for any help from anyone with some Mac knowledge!

M

Just install SABnzbd. Is the same for Mac and PC. Worked for me on my Macbook.

Second vote here for sabnzbd. Web based. Essentially the same on any system. Highly versatile.

I've used Panic's Unison. I believe it's free now. Easy to use, reliable.

Or you can use NZBGet, for a while now my favourite client on my mac book pro. To decompress files i would advice to use keka on an apple system.

Thank you for the help! I will try out SAB first. Hope all goes well. Thanks again!
M

For free readers, sab and NZBget, or binreader. Unison is a good one to browse groups and not just open nzbs. Hogwasher is another but is paid and doesn't seem to be as good. NZBVortex is a good paid one (just for opening nzbs, and with search embedded if you input indexer api). For archives some free ones are the unarchiver and especially keka. A paid one, and the only one I know which opens the archives without extracting (on a window, like winrar), is BetterZip.

Unison Still works even though it was discontinued. It is beautiful and very Mac-like (if that matters)

SABNzb every time. Install, open your browser and point it to http://127.0.0.1:8080/sabnzbd/ configure your Usenet service (usernames and passwords etc) and you're good to go.

Drop the NZB file into the browser window and hey presto :-)

I use NZBVortex 3 which has made all others "oldfashioned" for me... :rolleyes: