Several torrent applications such as uTorrent provide access to a torrent search that originates in the client software. Most launch the search on a website in the default web browser instead of displaying the search results in their own interface. TorrentFetcher, a desktop Torrent search engine, offers torrent search capabilities right from its interface. Everything [...]
uTorrent 1.8.2 Final
A new version of the popular Bittorrent client uTorrent has been released yesterday evening; The release has been classified as final which means that it should be safe to upgrade uTorrent to this version. The developers are already working on uTorrent 1.8.3 and 1.9 but those are in beta and alpha stage currently and only [...]
Pirate Bay Trial Judge Biased?
News portals and sites on the Internet have reported in length about the trial against the founders of the online Torrent portal and tracker The Pirate Bay. Several of the charges brought forth against the founders had to be dropped during the trial. It did come as a surprise to many that the Pirate Bay [...]
Trackerchecker Lists Open Invite Only Torrent Sites
Torrent websites come in two shapes on the Internet. Public sites like The Piratebay can be accessed by anyone while private torrent sites can only be accessed by those with user accounts. What makes this difficulty is that most private torrent sites are closed for registration most of the time and only open up registrations [...]
uTorrent Download Accelerator
How do you test if a download accelerator is really working? One way would be to download the same files twice. Once with the download accelerator enabled and once without. While this is surely not the most scientific method of testing it should provide enough data to come to a conclusion. The uTorrent Download Accelerator [...]
uTorrent 0.9 Beta For Mac
The first official uTorrent release for Apple Macintosh computers has been released by the developers. Version 0.9 Beta of uTorrent is available for download on the official website. The software is still a beta and the developers state that it might contain serious bugs but that they think that it is stable enough to be [...]
Torrentvalley is No More
Ever so often, the people in charge try to get tough with those who break the law. Sometimes, the ‘bad guys’ get away but more often than not, they get caught. And that’s exactly what happened to Torrentvalley.com yesterday.
Torrentvalley is different from other BitTorrent services in that it’s not a file tracker like Pirate Bay. [...]
