In the meantime, the P2P blog has a neat tip that lets you almost get bittorrent on your iPhone. Almost every bittorrent client (including Azureus, which is what I use on my Mac) can establish a remote connection via a browser, which the iPhone has. Using a plugin for Azureus (here's one that P2P recommends, and here's another that they say might work better with the iPhone), you can start and stop downloads, and even queue up local torrents.
At this point, the plugin's search function doesn't work (so you must have the torrent sitting on your local box in the first place), but in the future, you'll be able to find and queue a torrent on your iPhone, and then have it ready to go when you get home.
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7-25-2007 @ 11:50AM
allyourbasekris said...
I use torrentflux (http://tf-b4rt.berlios.de/) on a spare linux box I've got lying around, it does server side search so you don't need to upload torrents. Works well but a bit fiddly to configure.
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7-25-2007 @ 1:05PM
Kristian said...
that is so awesome. especially for the legal torrents.. the possibilities with freeware roms mwahaha. but seriously the iPhone is becoming cooler and cooler I can't wait to see what people come up with next.
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7-25-2007 @ 2:06PM
Scott said...
yeah, torrentflux ftw. it only took me like 5 min to set up and it works great on the iphone.
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7-25-2007 @ 3:14PM
Eric Kiel said...
@3: Scott, has it gotten easier to install Torrentflux on OS X recently? I looked at it a while back and couldn't get it to work correctly.
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7-25-2007 @ 3:41PM
Fernando said...
I rather use a full-fledged torrent client, like this one:
http://www.aut.bme.hu/portal/SymTorrent.aspx?lang=en
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7-25-2007 @ 5:20PM
Metryq said...
What's next, SETI@Home for the iPhone?
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