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Transmisison 0.71 Fixes Announce Issue

by Dan Lurie (RSS feed) on Apr 24th, 2007

One of the things I love about OS X is the fact that for pretty much any conceivable task, there are multiple applications to choose from with which to do it. Unfortunately, this hasn't really been the case when it comes to BitTorrent clients. Yes, there may have been multiple native clients out there, but only two of them were really any good– BitRocket and Transmission– and for the longest time, Transmission was banned on many private torrent trackers. This left only BitRocket, a client lacking some key features such as the ability to view and set upload/download ratios. Until Today.

Transmission 0.71 fixes the much hated multiple-announce bug which caused it's banning by many trackers. The new version also includes some other small bug fixes and interface updates. Transmission is Open Source and available as a free download.

Goodbye BitRocket!

[via CrunchGear]

Tags: bitrocket, bittorrent, torrent, transmission

Filed under: Software, Open Source

BitRocket walkthrough

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Sep 6th, 2006

Just yesterday we wrote about BitRocket, a new open source BitTorrent client for OS X. We also wrote about the fact that some people think that something is rotten in the state of BitRocket, however, after looking at the code myself I can rest easy recommedning the app.

Some of you, I am sure, were craving a few more screenshots than the one that I included. Our very own David Chartier has posted a very nice walkthrough of BitRocket on our sister blog, DownloadSquad. Head on over there for a step by step look at BitRocket.

Tags: BitRocket, bittorrent, dls, downloadsquad

Filed under: Software, Open Source

Questions about BitRocket abound

by Dan Lurie (RSS feed) on Sep 5th, 2006



News is coming in via digg commenters and posts on forum threads linked therein which seems to indicate and give evidence that BitRocket uses code taken from the Transmission.app source without giving any attribution as required by the MIT license under which Transmission is released. These accusations are further supported by the fact that the developer of BitRocket, Julian Ashton, previously developed XFactor, a P2P application, which was proven to take code from the Poisoned project, again without proper attribution.

Update: Scott, our fearless leader, did some digging and found a post on the forum thread linked that I seem to have missed. According to at least one account, BitRocket does properly credit the source it uses.

Tags: bitrocket, bittorrent, code, digg, evil, poisoned, stolen, torrent, transmission, xfactor

Filed under: Software, Universal Binary

BitRocket

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Sep 5th, 2006



Still having trouble finding a Mac bittorrent client that is to your liking, even after looking at this list? Perhaps BitRocket will be the app you have been looking for. It is a .1 beta release, but it does look promising (and very Mac like to boot).

BitRocket is free.

Tags: bitrocket, bittorrent

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