Binary Boy Review

BinaryBoy is a newsreader that downloads mp3s, movies, pictures and other files from newsgroups. The tool is valuable for those who are active newsgroup subscribers and know where to look for the goodies. Binary Boy is by no means the only tool that does this, but it has some look features that others lack.

For instance, Binary Boy comes with the smart cache algo that increases search speed and preserves bandwidth by requesting only the headers that aren't already downloaded. Two, BinaryBoy’s decoder is Hyper-Threading compatible, which is a must have for high speeds. NZB support allows importing of search results from Usenet search engines which are growing by leaps and bounds. But then again, Usenet is a fairly narrow niche occupied by folks with PC skills well above the average.

Binary Boy also lets you select if you want to browse manually or schedule a search to collect files automatically. Search strings can be as simple as a single word or more complex using AND, OR and NOT logic. You can optionally apply custom search strings to each newsgroup, which is the way I do it because not all newsgroups are created equal.

Another cool thing about Binary Boy is that you can store files from each newsgroup in separate folders automatically. Oh and the best thing – you can decode incomplete or damaged files for previewing mpgs before downloading the whole movie. If necessary, you can rearrange the download order or remove files with the editable queue.
Binary Boy supports UUencode, Base64, Quoted Printable, yEnc, QP-Lite, BommaNews. Customer service is excellent, fast support (they answered by email in 2 hours on a Sunday).