February 13, 2009
Since its first arrival, the torrent protocol has evolved into one of the most powerful P2P methods available. But due to many reasons such as copyright infringement or bandwidth abuse, not everyone embraces this convenient way of sharing files. Many admins block connections to torrent networks preventing the users from acquiring the torrents and/or the [...]
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February 8, 2009
There are many great advantages to using private torrent trackers. For instance, the reliability and speed of the downloads exceeds those of free trackers, mainly because of the ratio systems. These ratio systems oblige everyone to upload about at least as much as they download. Ironically, the biggest disadvantages lie also with the ratio system. [...]
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January 17, 2009
The last few years have seen a tremendous growth in the number of BitTorrent users and the content that is available via BitTorrent. Nowadays it is no big deal if you can find a TV Show on BitTorrent before it has premiered on TV. The number of sites indexing and searching BitTorrent files have kept [...]
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January 13, 2009
In the last few months, I’ve noticed more and more infected torrents and torrent sites out there. The problem with securely downloading torrents is that many of the sites are based overseas or generally don’t get the benefit of mainstream security vetting. Here is one secure torrent site that offers safe torrent downloading. VerTor is a [...]
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January 11, 2009
Just like most of you (probably), I like to waste time. I do this by trying to bring the nerd in me to a higher level, discovering new things, and watching movies. Especially watching movies and series, actually. One thing that I’ve learned over the years, is that anime is heavily underrated. A lot of [...]
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January 1, 2009
If you’ve been browsing MakeUseOf for a little while, you probably know how much we like torrents. The Bit Torrent distribution system allows for rapid dissemination of large files to thousands of people. It’s not the most user friendly system in the world, though. If torrents are relatively new to you, you’ve probably run into [...]
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December 7, 2008
BitRocket, Xtorrent, Tomato Torrent, BitTyrant, Bits on Wheels. These are some of the torrent clients for OS X. But let’s be honest, they probably don’t sound familiar to you because they’re outshone by the two gargantuas of the torrent world, Vuze (formerly known as Azureus) and Transmission, a lightweight but very capable torrent client. Prior [...]
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December 6, 2008
OK so let’s start with a quiz – what happens when you combine the power of BitTorrent with the power of something like Greasemonkey (user) scripts? Yeah! I can feel some gloating right there and can bet you are already thinking of the possibilities. Let’s just unravel some of them here. Be warned though that [...]
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December 3, 2008
Invites to private torrent sites are all but non-existent unless you know someone that knows someone. Yeah, they hold open registrations every once in a while, but it is usually only open for a couple of hours or a day if you’re lucky. Usually, you find out about the open registration once it’s over, and [...]
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October 29, 2008
The internet allows for a huge increase in connection and community as well as media – more specifically, music. With such a demand, a wave of new file sharing was born that is now called called BitTorrent. This allows users to share files easily by storing separate files, not on one person’s computer, but multiple [...]
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October 21, 2008
BitTorrent is great for sharing large files. If you have been using BitTorrent for some time you know the kind of stuff you can find out there. From movies to TV to games to Stanford lectures. Here is how you can manage and download your torrents remotely which means that you can start a torrent [...]
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October 11, 2008
If you are a power downloader, who likes to download large files or download files via bittorrent, you should definately check out aria2. aria2 is an advanced utility for the ‘powerful geeky downloader’. Aria2 is for Linux, however Windows and Mac ports are available. It supports downloads in HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/BitTorrent/Metalink protocols. Although it is a command [...]
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October 2, 2008
Downloading a movie is sometimes like heading into Oblivion. You have no certainty of exactly what you’ll end up with. Be it a crappy movie in great quality or (even worse) a great movie in crappy quality. For instance, you’ll never want to watch your favorite movie in cam format, which sounds as if you’re [...]
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August 16, 2008
What happens when BitTorrent meets Hamachi meets remote desktop meets networking? Well you get something similar to Remobo. Remobo lets you create an IPN which is an Instant Private Network. Lets see what you can do with an IPN, Remobo and how to set it all up. Remobo allows you to: Control your own computer [...]
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July 4, 2008
Transmission is a free and open source bit torrent client that runs natively on multiple operating systems and is available in many languages worldwide. Transmission is very lightweight and probably one of the best bit torrent clients around. Transmission was first released on September 15th 2005 and has came quite a long way since its [...]
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