uTorrent goes 1.0 for Mac OS X

Re: "Apple has kept a tight lid on restricting BitTorrent-related apps (such as a BitTorrent client controller) "

Transmission's built-in web interface is fully functional and formatted perfectly for the iPhone. Save the link to your home screen, bingo bango, controller app.

Biggest issue with µTorrent though is that it doesn't let you set a per-torrent download location - all files go straight to a single Downloads folder. Great speeds and fast, slick interface but that's a big of an odd omission (Windows version does it just fine...)

Transmission is neat. I REALLY like its interface and features. And I also use it on my fonera as my primary source of downloads.

But on the mac... uTorrent is just faster. Which is what matters most on a download app.

Actually it's µTorrent... and it's really easy to type, just hit option+m to get the µ.

I find it somewhat amusing that the reviewer touts the size of the utorrent dmg and the app as smaller than transmission. This is a torrent client, right? Downloading gigabytes of data is its sine qua non. Are torrenters really concerned about saving a megabyte or two for their client app? That's at best a trivial point and tells us nothing about the features or lack thereof in comparison to transmission. Instead, he offers this kernel of reviewing wisdom -- uh, the other app is bigger.

I might be mistaken, hence the question, is μTorrent not a commercial enterprise these days? Whilst Transmission still being opensource/volunteer based?

If you wanted to control torrents on the iPhone or iPad, plenty of client applications for both windows and mac have a web front end that includes a feature to paste a torrent url into the web interface and have it fetch the file and begin downloading.

Se for a mac you'd setup transmission to run a web interface, visit on your device, add the page to your homescreen then just visit a torrent site in safari, hold you finger down on the link to the torrent file, copy then paste into the web interface's open torrent dialog.

I assume something similar is possible on a pc on a home network running a torrent client with a web interface.

It's 1.0 but it's still a Beta.

The question is, does it support magnet links? Till then I stick with transmission.

Xtorrent always