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

The Bitorrent client uTorrent has made a huge leap forward today with the release of the first public uTorrent 3.0 alpha build. This continues the release policy of the developers who have always offered access to both stable and development builds of the popular torrent downloader. The latest stable version offered on the uTorrent homepage [...]

Categories: P2p, Software, Windows

If you have visited a Bittorrent website or torrent search engine lately you might have come upon magnet links that were offered on the torrent download pages. Chance is the magnet link did not really bother you since the torrent link was offered as well on the download page so that it could be downloaded [...]

Categories: P2p

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

The uTorrent team has released a first alpha preview version (utorrent 2.2 beta 19640) codenamed Griffin that integrates a web-based extensions framework into the Bittorrent client. These apps, which only consist of HTML and JavaScript, are displayed using the existing browser that was extended for this new functionality. This in theory should make it easy [...]

Categories: P2p, Software, Windows

The uTorrent developers have just released the first release candidate of upcoming uTorrent 2.0 complete with UDP tracker support and a new transfer cap to track bandwidth usage more effectively. The biggest change in the release candidate is the UDP tracker support which is a different protocol for tracker communication which uses less processing power [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I received error messages in uTorrent after switching from Windows XP to Windows 7. All uTorrent downloads were showing Error: Access is denied after a few seconds. The temporary solution was to run uTorrent in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode. Several users commented in the thread stating that they did not experience this error messages [...]

Categories: troubleshooting

I switched to Windows 7 earlier today and have started to install most of the computer programs that I work regularly with. One of the programs was the Bittorrent client uTorrent which caused a strange problem. After configuring the new port forwarding rules it would start downloading and seeding the data as usual but would [...]

Categories: Software, troubleshooting

Using a portable version of uTorrent can be beneficial or necessary in several situations. It is for example easier to put a portable version of the Bittorrent client on a removable device so that it can be used on different computer systems without having to worry about settings and paths. Another reason could be to [...]

Categories: P2p, Software, Tutorials Basic