Bittorrent Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Transmission shifts into 1st gear

by Cory Bohon (Jan 4th, 2008)

Transmission, long available in beta form, is one of my favorite torrent clients. BitTorrent, as you probably know, is a way to transfer or share files over the internet, for free, using a 'swarm' model to speed files along. Transmission makes the downloading of those files quite stunning, with its ...

Starting bittorrent downloads remotely from the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Dec 28th, 2007)

I like Mac OS X Hints a lot, although I will admit that most of the hints they post just aren't for me-- either they're for things that I just don't have a need to do, or they're for things I already figured out a solution for on my own. But lately, I've been trying to figure out if there was a way ...

Transmission .90 released

by Christina Warren (Oct 24th, 2007)

Transmission - the open source, lightweight BitTorrent client that is the closest alternative to uTorrent that us Mac users can get - has just released version .90. New features added in this update include: Encryption support (finally!), with an option to ignore unencrypted peers The ability ...

Acquisition 2

by Scott McNulty (Oct 15th, 2007)

Acquisition, the best looking BitTorrent client on OS X, has just been updated to version 2.0. This update is all about refinement. The UI has been enhanced, the search list can now have folders in it, the downloads view has been improved, and much more. Acquisition Pro will set you back $24, though ...

NBC to offer content, DRM via NBC Direct

by Mike Schramm (Sep 19th, 2007)

The latest news in the NBC/Apple battle? NBC is going to make their own iTunes. With blackjack! And women! In fact, forget the blackjack and the women-- they're calling it "NBC Direct," and a brand new player (not available on Mac for a little while, go figure) will be used to download and play ...

Transmission 0.8 released with selective file downloads, UI changes and much more

by David Chartier (Aug 7th, 2007)

You TUAW readers have spoken loud and clear: Transmission is your favorite BitTorrent client. If you're nodding your head right now, you'll be happy to know that v0.8 of the cross-platform app has gone official, ushering in a boatload of new features and fixes for all OSes it works on, as well as ...

Xtorrent 1.1 beta 1 released with major new features

by David Chartier (Aug 2nd, 2007)

Dave Watanabe has released v1.1 beta of Xtorrent, his excellent BitTorrent client. With this major x.1 release, Watanabe has included some significant new features like individual file selection, file prioritization, individual file completion status, and improved privacy options. Watanabe has ...

Running a bittorrent client from the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jul 25th, 2007)

A few days ago, TorrentFreak speculated about how someone might create a bittorrent client for the iPhone. While it seems technically possible (except for that nagging "no SDK" problem, which makes it hard to get code running on there), you might question why it needs to be done - since there are ...

uTorrent for Mac

by Scott McNulty (Jun 27th, 2007)

Lots of the youngsters out there are clogging up the Internet tubes with their torrents and their Rock and Roll music. Sadly, the choice of BitTorrent clients (BitTorrent, in case you aren't familiar, is a distributed peer to peer downloading protocol. The more people who download something, the ...

Transmisison 0.71 Fixes Announce Issue

by Dan Lurie (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 ...

Transmission 0.7 bittorrent client released

by Mat Lu (Apr 19th, 2007)

Almost a year after the last version, (and sporting a spiffy new icon) the open-source bittorrent client Transmission has been updated to version 0.7. In addition to numerous bug-fixes, highlights of this version include automatic port mapping, individual torrent bandwidth limits, user-ordering of ...

Xtorrent 1.0 v40 released with per-torrent bandwidth throttling, list of big features to come

by David Chartier (Apr 18th, 2007)

It isn't often that developers unveil their cards, but when they do, their user's ears typically perk up. Such is the case with Dave Watanabe's release of Xtorrent 1.0 v40 in which he announced two big new features now, and a few juicy ones coming down the road. As of this new version, Xtorrent ...

TV Shows: automatic torrent finder

by Mat Lu (Apr 16th, 2007)

This falls into the category of we report, you decide (what to do with it). TV Shows is an open source project that simplifies bittorrenting. It is not itself a Bittorrent client, rather it interfaces tvRSS together with your bittorrent client (whatever it happens to be) to let download shows ...

Widget Watch: CreateTorrent

by David Chartier (Mar 26th, 2007)

Whether you're digging the recently-out-of-beta Xtorrent or you roll with a different app, you might still need a simple way to actually create a .torrent file to help with the seeding process. There are of course plenty of ways to do this, but the new CreateTorrent Dashboard widget is handy for the ...

Xtorrent and Inquisitor officially out of beta

by Michael Rose (Mar 26th, 2007)

When it comes to 'lickable' interface design, there's no question that indie Mac developer David Watanabe is a top practitioner. His latest projects, the BitTorrent client Xtorrent (discussed here in beta form) and Safari search extender Inquisitor v3 are both debuting as full-fledged, bye-bye-beta ...