7 Apps to Make Most of TORRENTs
Torrents are by far the most popular form of file sharing. People use them to download music, movies, software, books, games etc. In case you’re new to this then go straight to our mini tutotrial at the end of the post. As for all others, I would like to introduce you to a number of coolest torrent tools out there.
TORRENT SEARCH
(1) YouTorrent / PizzaTorrent - The only torrent search engines you will ever need. Both of them let you search for torrents on several popular torrent sources simultaneously (Mininova, The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt etc.) Search results can be sorted by various criteria, i.e. file size, number of seeds, peers and category (Pizzatorrent only).
TORRENT CLIENTS (DOWNLOADERS)
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(2) Bitlet - Bitlet is a web-based torrent client that makes it easy to download torrents in places where you can’t install your own programs (work, college labs etc.)
(3) uTorrent (Windows) - Tiny, fast, user-friendly and extremely popular torrent client. Probably the best torrent client for Windows PCs. Suitable both for beginners and advanced users.
(4) TransmissionBT (Mac, Linux) - An equally good resource-friendly torrent client for Mac and Linux users. Simple, intuitive and absolutelly free.
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(5) TED - TED stands for ‘Torrent Episode Downloader’. This small cross-platform (Win, Mac, Linux) program can monitor your favorite TV shows and automatically download new episodes as soon as they hit web. It comes with a list of predefined TV shows, in case your favorite shows are missing you can add them manually. To add a new show you’ll need an RSS feed for it and below mentioned tvRSS is the place to get them.
(6) TVshows - Similar to the ‘Torrent Episode Downloader’ but works only on Mac’s.
(7) tvRSS - tvRSS lets you create custom torrent RSS feeds for any available TV show. You can even customize feeds by episode quality, i.e. HDTV, DSR etc.
Torrents mini-tutorial: What? How?
- 1. Before you can start downloading torrents you need to install a torrent client (see above).
- 2. Once the client is installed, go to one of the torrent search sites (see above) and search for whatever you want to download.
- 3. Click on the desired search result and you will be redirected to the torrent page.
- 4. Click on the ‘Download this torrent’ link and save it to your PC
- 5. Start your torrent client (step 1) and drag’n drop downloaded torrent file on top of it.
- 6. Press Confirm / OK to start downloading the file.
That’s about it. Got another noteworthy torrent tool ? Lets us know in comments.
Torrentflux I still think is the best.
TorrentFlux is a good application but I wouldn’t call it the best. Mainly because it runs only on Linux Machines.
For those who are in the dark here: “TorrentFlux is an open source bit torrent client for Linux, Unix & BSD platforms that runs on a web server.”
Excellent info on Torrents.
Excellent post…I have been using various Bit Torrent clients for years and had never heard of Pizza Torrent, TED, or Bitlet….excellent stuff. Thanks for bringing it to us.
Very helpful post.
BTW if you have a torrent, you can download it using FlashGet as well.
Didnt’ know abt that, thanks for sharing.
Another great post, I hope to see more of this in the future. Also if I can get a Hulu invite that would be great, I been on the wait list for ever. Thanks!
Sorry mate,
We had abt 500 invites but they were gone in abt 2-3 hours.
wow, excellent recommendations!!! finally a search like PizzaTorrent and YouTorrent!, i have always had to go into each torrent app and search for the programs, now it’s all in central place.
Thanks a bunch!!
I use the portable version of utorrent, that way you can take your torrents with you.
Yeah, i like it as well
Multitorrent (http://www.multitorrent.org) is a good web alternative
Pizza Torrent is dead =’(
And YouTorrent has become legalized!
Try btdig.com instead. imo much better than both pizza- and youtorrent. Has all the features of the other metasearch engines, but you can also download the torrents directly from the site instead of visiting some other advert-spammed torrent index. nice
youtorrent.com is not good for me,
but utorrent is the best client
Nice list, otherever there are much torrents finder on the net
Bye & 10x
hello guys I invite you to use one of new torrents search sites http://www.p2pfinder.com, take a look and tell me about, this is my favorite.