Xtorrent Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Xtorrent Beta 3: RSS "Torrentcast" Support

by Mat Lu (Feb 11th, 2007)

We've mentioned the two previous betas of Dave Watanabe's excellent bittorrent client Xtorrent. Now beta 3 is out and adds a long promised feature: RSS support. With beta 3, you can subscribe to a RSS feed from a torrent tracker site, and, according to Dave, "you are presented with a continuously ...

What I'm thankful for this Thanksgiving season

by David Chartier (Nov 23rd, 2006)

Since many of us at TUAW are celebrating Thanksgiving in America, I though this might be a good time to join many others in posting a few things I'm thankful for in the Mac web. Naturally, I'm thankful for the wonderful family I'm getting to spend time with, as well as an incredible wife and having ...

Xtorrent Public Beta 2

by David Chartier (Nov 19th, 2006)

David Watanabe (of NewsFire fame) has released a second public beta of Xtorrent, his BitTorrent client that first appeared on the scene back in September. The largest change is one of the least visible: a major overhaul under the hood of the downloads pane to pave the way for upcoming integration ...

Transmission 0.7 beta reviewed by Torrentfreak

by David Chartier (Nov 1st, 2006)

The market for Mac torrent clients has been expanding quite a bit recently, and Torrentfreak has a nice review of a new beta version of Transmission, a long-standing favorite of many a Mac torrenter. While the review rounds up many of the nice new features, I'll give you the cliff notes for the ...

Xtorrent Beta 1

by Scott McNulty (Sep 18th, 2006)

You kids and your bittorrents. Why, I remember when I was in college and Napster was all the rage (this was when Napster was new, and still cool). We had one source for our downloads and we liked it. Now everyone is bittorrenting files to and fro (only open source software and the like, I am sure), ...

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