One of the reasons for the success of the file sharing application Limewire was that it offered everything that one needed to get started. The program came with built-in options to search for and download files. All you had to do was to key in names that you were interested in, wait for the search [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 9
uTorrent 3 Final Bittorrent Client Released
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. [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 14
How Long Do You Give Fetch.io?
The new Bittorrent related service Fetch.io has been in the news ever since it was mentioned over at Torrentfreak two days ago. Fetch.io acts as a middleman by downloading torrents to their servers. The files that are downloaded this way are automatically transcoded into mp4 and Flash video formats before they become available for streaming, [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Bittorrent 8 Beta For Windows
Bittorrent has just released a first beta version of Bittorrent 8 for the Windows operating system. The beta client features a user interface redesign and personal content channels. The user interface sports a new color scheme and layout. The dominating colors are all shades of gray and purple, a mixture that is actually not as [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
uTorrent 3 Beta Released
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 [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 11
Chrome Torrent Turbo Search Finds Downloads On Multiple Torrent Sites
Sometimes when you are searching for a specific file you may use Bittorrent indexers to find it. Most indexers allow you to search their index, and it happens that you have to visit and search multiple sites before you find the download that you have been looking for. Torrent Turbo Search is a free Google [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 9
Google Search Suggestions Block Download Related Suggestions
Google search suggestions displays the most likely search terms in the search form once the user begins typing. Sometimes it is enough to enter one letter and hit the tab key to complete the suggestion. This can save some time and offer search options that the user may have otherwise not have thought of. One [...]
- Author: Mike Halsey MVP
- Comments: 10
Avast me’hearties, Pirate Anti-Virus licence’s up for ‘a sharin’
Normally any software company that finds one of its product keys being shared on torrent websites would crack down pretty quickly by withdrawing it. Not Avast however who, according to a report by PC Pro magazine decided to track installs with it to see how far it would spread. The company stayed deathly silent for [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
Create Magnet Links Directly On Popular Torrent Sites
Bittorrent users have two options to download files using the Bittorrent protocol. The first option is to download a torrent file to load it into a torrent downloader such as uTorrent or Vuze. The second is to directly click on a magnet link to add the download information to the torrent downloader without first downloading [...]
