A Simple Way to Remotely Download Torrents on the Mac. There are many ways to remotely initiate BitTorrent downloads, but most are complicated and require tweaking. Here's an easy way to remotely download torrents with only an instant messaging application and a BitTorrent client. The most common way to remotely download torrents is via a WebUI. On the Mac, the only BitTorrent client with a WebUI is Azureus, and that’s via a plug-in. Most people would find it confusing to open up ports in their software firewall to configure the plug-in, and TorrentFlux is strictly for über geeks. Thanks to a bit of clever thinking on the part of Ruairi, a contributor to macosxhints.com, you won’t have to bother with any advanced settings or run the PHP-based TorrentFlux on your web server. Here’s what you need to do: You will need to have either Adium or iChat+Chax installed. Now set up either Transmission (Beta), Azureus or Xtorrent to watch that directory for torrent files.
That’s it, you’re done. Have you already tried this, and has it worked for you? The Pirate Bay - The worlds largest BitTorrent tracker. Metalinker.org. Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites Compared. When I first began to use BitTorrent in 2004 there was little question as to which indexing site to use. Today, Suprnova is long gone and we are left with an array of diverse options. This is a comparison of today's ten most used BitTorrent sites according to Alexa.com. Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites: I was rather surprised with these results, BTJunkie has nearly double the amount of torrents as the next leading competitor. The reason for such the dramatic increase is that they index both private and public trackers. BitTorrent. search engine is operated by the founder of the BitTorrent protocol, Brah Cohen. BushTorrent & TorrentR was surprised to find out these two sites shared the same index and operator.
I in early 2004, this site flourished at the demise of Suprnova. Torr is the most popular BitTorrent site. Yotoshi : Bittorrent Search Engine. FullTorrent.net - Search and find more torrents. Ten Most Used BitTorrent Sites Compared. Control your BitTorrent downloads from Firefox - Lifehacker. BitTorrent FAQ and Guide. Welcome! If you are new to BitTorrent, this site should help clear up a lot of commonly asked questions.
If you would like to contribute a question (and presumably the answer as well), please use the contact page and send me a note. Disclaimer: I am a Windows user, and so by default the answers will tend to apply to Windows if not otherwise stated. I've tried to include as much Linux and Mac information as I can. If you have anything to add on those subjects, by all means please contribute. Alternative Site This FAQ is also available in a different form at btfaq.com . Table Of Contents Use these links to jump to specific parts of this document, or just page down if you'd prefer to browse the whole thing. What is BitTorrent?
How does BitTorrent compare to other forms of file transfer? Where can I download the BitTorrent program? What other BitTorrent-related utilities are out there? I've installed BitTorrent, now what? What is this Mandrake thing I'm invited to download after BitTorrent? Azureus : Java BitTorrent Client. BitTorrent Usage Guide: Learn how to use the most effective method of obtaining latest tv-series, movies and other entertainment. > Linux Reviews > Software guides > Peer to peer file sharing > It allows distribution of very harge files quickly and effectivly because the outstream bandwidth is shared among the downloaders. BitTorrent is the ultimate file sharing tool for distributing huge files to a vast number of users. The tool is very popular for distributing Linux ISO images of the latest live-CD Linux distributions like Knoppix ( knoppix live cd ISO images ). The bittorrent ( official site ) clients needs a hash file for the actual file you will be downloading and a tracker which connects downloading clients together and keeps track of who has what parts of the file being distributed The information files with the tracker adress and the hash code are called torrents .
You need to obtain the right torrent for the file(s) you want to download. The torrent is then loaded by a bittorrent client. Each .torrent file has a hard-coded tracker address all the clients connects to upon starting the transfer. 2.1. 2.2. Bad: