Newsgroup Downloading
157 words eaten alive on November 28, 2007 - Filed Under computers, Internet, programming -
Downloading files from newsgroups is a much faster and better way than using those horrid file sharing apps, better even than torrents. The downside is that you generally need to subscribe to a News server in order to get the good stuff, but for an average of $10 to $15 a month you can download gigs and gigs of files at top speeds.
Sorting through the headers and numerous files can be a pain and very confusing for those new to this format, but luckily a lot of things are done up in batches as an NZB file (kind of like a .zip, but without the compression). SuperNZB will quickly and effortlessly grab the whole batch at once, so all you need to do is double click the nzb file and go play a game, go to work, or whatever and when you come back, your files will be all downloaded and ready to enjoy.
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