Automatically open Bittorrent files using Dropbox and Hazel

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I use Dropbox to download torrents while i'm away from home (usually most of the week).

I have DropBox & Transmission set up on my Mac Mini at home, waiting for torrents, i get them through Twitter, save them in a special folder on my Dropbox, then when the download is complete Transmission copies it back to the Dropbox folder and it syncs to my computer all over secure SSL connections.

Very handy as it means i can steal wifi from my workplace without them having a hope of figuring out what i'm doing! The only connection to torrent sites is the initial 250k torrent download, and that's small enough not to be noticed. All other data transfer just looks like Citrix access :-)

Has anyone noticed that uploading the payload of widely available torrents to Dropbox happens unnaturally quickly? I'm thinking that Dropbox hashes each file and only actually uploads it if it's not been done before- saves a lot of time!

dropbox is exceptional for working on InDesign files on multiple computers (or with multiple editors). It keeps all the linked files organized correctly.

I use dropbox to keep 1password synchronized in my two macs. You only need to set 1password to keep its database in your dropbox folder (do that in preferences). Of course you need to do it in all the computers you want to keep synchronized.

What I'm waiting for is a way to search for a torrent on my iPhone, download the torrent file to my DropBox and have it start automatically at home.

Dropbox is great for syncing 1password across multiple computers. 1password even details how to so it in their FAQ.

Just a sidebar. I'd really enjoy an article comparing DropBox with Evernote. I hear good comments about both but a full comparison would be helpful.

Since several people mentioned Apple scripts; can't you set up one that watches the folder and starts up Transmission once it find's a torrent file in the folder?
Would be even lazier, because you don't even have to remember to start transmission and you wouldn't have to have it running all the time.

For those with rss feeds: http://codingcurious.com/automatic/