When you look at the most popular Bittorrent clients for Windows, you will probably notice that uTorrent is mentioned quite often. If you look over to Macintosh or Linux computer systems, you will likely hear the program name Transmission fairly often. Transmission-QT is an unofficial Open Source port of that Bittorrent client for the Microsoft [...]

Categories: Open Source, Software, Windows

It felt like aeons but the developers of uTorrent have finally published the first beta version of version 3 of the popular Bittorrent client. The beta is offered as a 32-bit and 64-bit version for the Windows operating system. The developers state that the 64-bit version “may be considerably buggier than the 32-bit release”, most [...]

Categories: P2p, Software

Torrent Swapper is a bittorrent client with some interesting features that make it stick out of the crowd of bittorrent clients. First of all it was written in Python making it independent from any operating system. Several other clients offer this as well though and the main feature that distinguishes Torrent Swapper from other clients is the feature to share upload speed between computers.

Categories: P2p, Tools

Running a Bittorrent client from a web server is a good way for sites like Jamendo to seed the torrents that they offer on their sites. This is also an excellent opportunity for authors of Open-Source and Freeware applications to cut their bandwidth costs by sharing the bandwidth with the users who are downloading the software. If you run a bittorent client from a web server you are plattform independent which means that you can access the client from every computer with Internet access – even from work or school to add new torrents to the queue, check the current downloads or administrate the client.

Categories: P2p, The Web