Download GrabIt 1.7.1 beta

Today a new build of GrabIt has been released. It is the successor to the 1.7.0 beta release released yesterday, which has version number 1.7.1 beta and can be downloaded by clicking this link to click. GrabIt is a freeware news client for Windows and can send binary and text files to and from newsgroups, as well as use nzb files to directly download binary files, for example. Straightened binaries split into multiple files are automatically merged. Via the download queue, the articles still to be downloaded can be sorted by file size and name, among other things. The same queue can also be used to prioritize the files to be downloaded. The new 1.7 branch of GrabIt includes support for Windows Vista and Windows 9x and the necessary bug fixes and improvements in the code:

GrabIt 1.7.1 ßeta released!
I made some last minute changes in GrabIt 1.7.0 before releasing it. While making these changes I accidentally disabled the possibility to turn of the RepairIt and ExtractIt feature. This is fixed in release 1.7.1. Sorry for the inconvenience!

GrabIt 1.7.0 eta released!
It has been almost a year since our last release. A year with a lot of changes. One of the changes was the release of Microsoft Windows Vista. GrabIt 1.6.2 worked great with Vista, but needed some changes from the default configuration. GrabIt 1.7.0 has the default configuration changed to work with Vista immediately. I also restored the Windows 9x compatibility for people still working on Windows 95, 98 or Me.

Together with these compatibility changes I rewrote the search engine from scratch. Besides better scaling possibilities it can now search for partial words. This means that a search for ‘rab’ will also find binaries containing ‘rab’, ‘rabbit’, ‘grabit’ and ‘arab’.

Another major update are two modules called RepairIt and ExtractIt that will automatically check your downloads for corruption (if PAR2 files have been downloaded) and when the downloads check out, they will be automatically extracted.

A full list of changes since GrabIt 1.6.2 is listed below. Go ahead and download the new build. Happy grabbing!

• New RepairIt and ExtractIt technology automatically checks, repairs and extracts downloaded binaries;
• Introduction of a new GrabIt Search method that enables you to find partial words (searching for ‘rab’ will find binaries containing ‘rab’, ‘rabbit’, ‘grabit’ and ‘arab’);
• New default Cache and Download folder locations for better Vista compatibility;
• The 1.7 generation is now fully compatible with Windows 9x again;
• Added a ‘Create Folder’ button to all folder select dialog boxes;
• Search and Browse Usenet code tweaked for better compatibility with some firewall software (eg. McAfee 2007 and Avast);
• Some minor interface changes;
• Fixed the problem that caused some downloads getting stuck in the cache folder without being decoded;
• It is now possible to use the GrabIt Search over port 443;
• ‘Article not found’ errors can now be ignored to improve the chances of getting enough blocks for a PAR2 repair.