On November 2nd NZBVortex released the latest version of their popular Mac Usenet Client.  NZBVortex version 2.5 has a number of tweaks along with better support for French Canadian renamed file uploads.  In addition to a cool new search screen for adding RSS feeds.  You can purchase a license for $19.95 to open up all the bells and whistles including advanced post processing and support for multiple news servers.

Here’s a full list of NZBVortex 2.5 features taken directly from the NZBVortex site:

• Support the French/Canadian renamed file uploads and improve other funcky nzbs
• Better support misnamed files during par2 phase
• Introduce a “configure sleep” balloon while clicking the Zzz button
• Show a balloon for the hard to find (seems) sleep and speed limit buttons
• Lion resume fullscreen wrong screen dimensions.
• Add a low CPU priority mode option for postprocessing
• Press SPACE to pause/resume marked downloads.
• “Reset Monthly server volume” doesn’t work when “volume limit warning” is disabled
• Server traffic reset button doesn’t update UI right away
• A reminder on launch that speed limit is use
• Show “speed limit” balloon above speed limit mode button when pressed
• Detect “wake up computer” timeout – make it little more snappy
• Application fade in animation glitch
• Button to add search query as RSS watch
• Merging nzb with another already imported paused nzb should not start download.
• Wildcard support rss / group matching / cleanup (regex using slash)
• Right click -> make this nzb the next to download
• Delete to trash with “Yes and Delete Files” or at least make it optional.
• Episodes watch values not saved following power cut
• Move out all other stuff from ProcessSpeed thread
• Rename files if the nzb contains other filenames compared to the par2 set content
• Drop NZB after itself (blue line bottom of itself) moves moves below the next NZB
• Franticly clicking SSL checkbox might cause a crash during test server settings (NSThread)

If you’re a Mac fan and haven’t had a chance to check out NZBVortex newsreader yet then visit their site and download a trial copy.  The client is very intuitive and easy to use.  It definitely has a nice Mac feel to it.

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