Paulus just emailed me to let me know about a new version of uTorrent that had been released as a first release candidate recently. The developers of the Bittorrent client have added several new features and technologies to the popular distribution software. Two of the new technologies that got added are Bittorrent DNA and uTorrent [...]

Categories: P2p

After what felt like an eternity, the final version of the popular lightweight Bittorrent client uTorrent 3 has been released today. The final version is build 25406 and existing users should see update notifications when they start their client on their system, or by manually checking for updates by selecting Help > Check for Updates. [...]

Categories: P2p, Software, Windows

The New York District Court has ordered LimeWire to shutdown immediately by disabling functionality in the software client that allows users to share copyrighted materials in the P2P client. Users who visit LimeWire’s website are greeted with a legal notice detailing that “LimeWire is under a court-ordered injunction to stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing [...]

Categories: P2p

I recently covered a great LAN file sharing tool called Giver (see my article “Easily share files on LAN with fellow Ubuntu users using Giver“). I wanted to take that idea a little further and cover a similar tool that allows you to chat with fellow users on your LAN WITHOUT have to add them [...]

Categories: Linux, Networks, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Have you ever just wanted to quickly hand a file off to a fellow user on a LAN without having to resort to using an email client or shared folder? Wouldn’t it be nice to just click on a username, send them a file, and have their desktop automatically notify them that the file has [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Networks, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

A web based extensions framework has been integrated into developer versions of uTorrent some time ago, offering the prospect to extend the basic functionality of the Bittorrent client in the future. Apps for uTorrent are currently only available in the latest developer releases of the p2p client. The first version with integrated apps was uTorrent [...]

Categories: P2p, Software, Windows

P2P networks thrive if they have enough users who contribute to the distribution system. They would not be working if anyone would simply download but not upload files or partially files to other users. But there are situations where a user does not want to contribute the upload speed to spreading the shared files to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Desktop torrent search engines seem to have grown in popularity over the last six months or so. Torrent Magnifier actually originated as a meta torrent search engine on the web which is still available. The developer’s must have made the decision to create a software for their torrent search engine to increase the popularity and [...]

Categories: P2p, Software, Windows

We have caused quite some steer with our review of PeerBlock, a software program that would use blacklists to block IP addresses from communicating with the computer systems that were using the program. PeerBlock was basically a fork of PeerGuardian 2 offering a similar functionality and an active team of developers that would maintain, optimize [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows