If you're on a Mac and use the newsgroups, you may want to check out NZB Vortex if you haven't already. We've covered this news reader extensively in the past. At its essence, it's a very easy to use news reader with the same aura as Unzbin - simple, streamline, plug and play. That's rather unusual in the Mac ecosystem, or at least it was until NZB Vortex came along.

The most recent release of NZB Vortex is mostly a post-processing update, but post-processing is a critical feature of a news reader. Without adequate post-processing, such as unRARing, unzipping, archive reassembly/reconstruction, you end up with a client that's, well, like alt.binz. The latest from NZB Vortex looks impressive, check it out:

"A new release which adds more postprocessing and better SSD drive support. New postprocessing steps: unzip, join split files. A selection of changes in this version:

* Tuned performance for SSD drives (with TRIM or TRIM hack)
* Zip file support
* Split file support
* Video preview now also works on Split and mk4 files
* Better detection of "Preview file available"
* Lower cpu usage
* Faster and less memory used for parsing large NZBs
* Better detect passworded nzbs
* Detection of a corrupt state database file
* Checkbox before RSS feed name now disables update; new option added to disable download of nzbs
* Move "One folder extraction result fix" to cleanup phase (even multiple sub folders now)
* Support badly formatted yEnc articles better
* Support pause and cancel during Joining
* Better old nzb detection
* Support concurrent add of search results
* And of course: all kinds of other small issues fixed."

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Date: 2011-06-07 Source: http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=2201