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A New Version Of SAABnzbd Has Been Announced: Version 6.14

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:44:54 -0400

With the 3 and a half million download milestone approaching, the development team at SABnzbd decided it would be a good time to get a new version out there that will take care of some of the issues that have been noticed by all you folks out there...

Easiest To Use Usenet Service For 2012: Easynews

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:44:53 -0400

Once again the award for the Usenet service that is easiest to use goes to Easynews. Time and again Easynews has won this award because they are quite simply the easiest service and browser to use. And if you are out away from your regular machine,...

2012 Best Usenet Newsreader Award: Newsbin

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:44:31 -0400

When we started discussing this category, there was almost dissension in the office...so many great newsreaders, but only one award. And since a newsreaders likability is a subjective matter, everyone had a newsreader that they like better than the...

Easynews Upps The Ante Again 1,275 Days Of Retention

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:45:57 -0400

Last week Easynews announced that they had updated their NNTP binary retention and upped it to a total of 1,275 days. This means you can search an additional 10 weeks back. There will be no cost increase to accompany the retention increase either....

2012 Best Small Usenet Newsreader Award: Binreader

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:43:32 -0400

In this category the newsreader must have a small footprint...in every direction. Of course, size does matter, but resources used, like memory and processor. And the newsreader has to work extremely well, without any kind of issues. This year, mainly...

theUsenet Review

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:38:40 -0400

Back in November a new service went live called theUsenet. While they are relatively new and untested they appear to have done a decent job with their service. That said we found their service offering a bit high considering that they are new. ...

Astraweb Announces Improved Accounts And Speed Limits

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:45:16 -0400

The guys over at Astraweb have decided to make their first major announcement of the year a big one...they recently rolled out a few changes to their pricing tiers, and while they were working on things, they doubled their speed caps. They added the...

2012 Award For Top Quality NZB Downloader: SABnzbd

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:38:23 -0400

There are only a few clients out there that are dedicated almost exclusively to downloading NZB's, but of the few that there are, SABNzbd has managed to keep themselves in our eye a lot of the last year. If you haven't used SABNzbd yet, you should...

2012 Top NZB Sites: NZBMatrix

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:39:11 -0400

Another one of our more hotly debated categories here at UsenetReviewz...as many of the likes and dislikes are subjective. The interface is nice and clean, and there are plenty of filters to help you narrow the search quickly. It integrates well with...

Burden Of Proof Should Be Put On Accused – Anti-Piracy Group Claims

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:15:02 -0400

A German anti-piracy group, GVU, is claiming that since the take-down of file-sharing super site MegaUpload there has been a upward registration trend of the sites that offer membership rewards for files that are uploaded that are highly popular....