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Vuze has been updated to version 4.3.0.2 for Mac OS X, adding support per-url config for http seeds and the max_speed setting, and other changes. Vuze is similar to uTorrent, a popular BitTorrent client mostly used by PC owners. According to the release notes for Vuze 4.3.0.2, the new features include Core - support... |
20 November 2009
06:40 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay may not be the world's largest BitTorrent site, but it's definitely the best known. So much so that even people who never visited the site itself are familiar with its logo. But, in keeping with their anti-IP stance, the logo wasn't copyrighted or trademark by the owners, something that ... |
18 November 2009
11:31 GMT |
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The BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology has been around for quite a few years; its huge popularity ensures that it will be around for at least as many. Anyway, the BitTorrent protocol has evolved over the years to the point where BitTorrent trackers, the sites which managed the initial communications between clients,... |
17 November 2009
10:14 GMT |
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Bandwidth throttling has become a fact of life for many Internet users and it's one of the major issues at heart of the net-neutrality debate. Most users don't like the practice, but ISPs say they are forced to do this because of network congestion. Now, uTorrent, the most popular BitTorrent client built by... |
2 November 2009
06:30 GMT |
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The developers at BitTorrent Inc. handling the Mac version of uTorrent have announced a new Alpha version of their torrent download manager, confirming a completely revamped user interface, improvements in the speed display, and more. uTorrent is a free-to-use application for Mac OS X and Windows, while Linux users c... |
20 October 2009
06:02 GMT |
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The Pirate Party is starting to pick up steam all over the world with several regional organizations on their way to follow the party's success in its country of origin, Sweden. Standing for a copyright and patent law overhaul and better privacy rights, the Pirate Party has also managed to get a good following i... |
28 September 2009
06:47 GMT |
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LimeWire X, the free, peer-to-peer (P2P), file-sharing app for Mac OS X has reached version 5.3.4, adding core improvements and tweaks. LimeWire X uses the Java platform to locate files, as well as share files, and it is one of the few P2P, file-sharing solutions of its kind for the Mac. LimeWire X is compatible with... |
17 September 2009
06:04 GMT |
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µTorrent, a popular BitTorrent client now available for Mac OS X as well, has been updated to version 0.9.2 beta. The software follows the rules of a protocol such as HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol). BitTorrent can be used to deliver any type of file. However, BitTorrent is purely a content-distribution meth... |
16 September 2009
09:43 GMT |
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Transmission, a BitTorrent client similar to Vuze, or uTorrent, has been updated to version 1.75 final. Transmission is open source, while most of the code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, with select code licensed under the liberal MIT License. The program boasts a simple, intuitive interface design... |
14 September 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Transmission, a BitTorrent client similar to Vuze, or uTorrent, has received a new update recently, bringing the piece of software to version 1.75b1. Transmission is open source, while most of the code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, with select code licensed under the liberal MIT License. The progr... |
8 September 2009
06:19 GMT |
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LimeWire X is a free, peer-to-peer (P2P), file-sharing client for Mac OS X. It uses the Java platform to locate files, as well as share files, and it is one of the few P2P, file-sharing solutions of its kind for the Mac. LimeWire is compatible with all major platforms and running over the Gnutella Network. The relea... |
4 September 2009
06:19 GMT |
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Developed by David Watanabe, Xtorrent is an advanced torrent client that aims to bring a friendly interface and powerful features to the world of BitTorrent. Unlike similar BitTorrent clients for Mac, the full version of Xtorrent is not free, but the features speak for themselves.“Xtorrent is all about search,&... |
2 September 2009
11:05 GMT |
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Vuze, the popular Mac OS X BitTorrent client, has been updated to version 4.2.0.8 adding drive detection for the PlayStation Portable, less CPU usage for seeding, UI fixes, and more. The piece of software is free to download and install on any kind of Mac, as long as it’s running Mac OS X 10.3 or later. Accord... |
2 September 2009
08:32 GMT |
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Handled by developer Eric Petit, Transmission is a BitTorrent client similar to Vuze, or uTorrent. The piece of software is open source, while most of the code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, with select code licensed under the liberal MIT License. Transmission boasts a simple, intuitive interface ... |
25 August 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Transmission is a BitTorrent client similar to Vuze, or uTorrent. The software is open source, while most of the code is licensed under the GNU General Public License, with select code licensed under the liberal MIT License. The program offers a simple, intuitive interface designed to integrate tightly with any OS. ... |
20 August 2009
09:56 GMT |
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While the aftermath of the Pirate Bay deal is just starting to be felt, some questions as to the future of the site and how the community will fare are already begging to be answered. Last week the torrent site announced it had been bought by Swedish gaming company Global Gaming Factory X AB (GGF) for about $7.8 mill... |
6 July 2009
06:46 GMT |
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Using torrents has become quite an everyday routine for most of us. Though eating up all your bandwidth in one bite, they surely can take the load off traffic-heavy servers. How? Each of us becomes a peer that "seeds" tiny bits of the download, leading to exponentially growing speed and availability. Most of the time... |
30 June 2009
13:21 GMT |
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LimeWire X is a free, peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing client for Mac OS X. It uses the Java platform to locate files, as well as share files, and it is one of the few P2P file-sharing solutions of its kind for the Mac. LimeWire is compatible with all major platforms and running over the Gnutella network. Recently up... |
27 June 2009
04:33 GMT |
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Transmission, the popular BitTorrent client for Mac OS X, has received a new update packing fixes and improvements. Cross-platform changes, Mac-specific fixes and improvements to GTK+ and Daemon are noted in the changelog. Transmission is a BitTorrent client much like Vuze, or uTorrent. The software is open source, w... |
17 June 2009
05:00 GMT |
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Apple has notified the developer of a BitTorrent client for iPhone and iPod touch that copyright infringement concerns cannot let it past the App Store's iron gates. Apple has thus rejected Maza Digital’s Drivetrain, saying that, “This category of applications is often used for the purpose of infring... |
12 May 2009
05:32 GMT |
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BitTorrent Inc. has released uTorrent 0.9.1.2 Build 15399 Beta, a new version of its popular file-sharing application for Mac OS X. The release adds a total of nine fixes to issues reported in previous versions of the still-in-beta application. Particularly, the changelog reveals, fixes incorporated in uTorrent 0.9.1... |
8 May 2009
06:56 GMT |
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LaCie, a leading vendor of computer storage solutions, has announced today the expansion of its line of NAS (Network Attached Storage) solutions, with the introduction of the new Big Disk Network and d2 Network. These two solutions have been designed to provide storage support in a convenient NAS device to users who ... |
6 May 2009
05:25 GMT |
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All BitTorrent users will be happy to hear that a new version of the popular Transmission client has been released, for both Linux and Mac platforms. Transmission 1.6.0 brings a beta client for the Qt framework as well as important new features and improvements. Users will now be able to limit the seed ratio and pri... |
5 May 2009
07:50 GMT |
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The Sparkle framework should have already notified Transmission users of the latest update to the powerful BitTorrent client for Mac OS X. The 1.60 release, fresh out of beta, delivers over a dozen improvements, including UI changes, new functionalities, as well as the Bonjour support for the web interface. Transmis... |
5 May 2009
06:19 GMT |
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Mac users should be happy to hear that their favorite BitTorrent client has just been updated to include tons of new stuff and fixes to some of their reported issues with the software. Transmission 1.60 Beta 1 is a free download available right here, on Softpedia. Transmission is a BitTorrent client much like Vuze, ... |
28 April 2009
05:55 GMT |
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Jail sentences and a $3.6 million fine came with the guilty verdicts in the Pirate Bay case. The four defendants, namely Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom, were convicted to 1 year in jail and a financial penalty of $3.6 million. The four were found guilty of facilitating access to... |
17 April 2009
09:59 GMT |
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Softpedia has learned that Apple's latest iPhone OS 3.0 beta has hit torrent sites and is currently available for download, for iPhone 3G and iPod touch first-generation, although not approved by Apple. The two files are listed as:- “iPhone.3G.OS.3.0.BETA.3.build.7A280f.TL” and - “iPod.Touch.fi... |
17 April 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Vuze, the hugely popular Mac OS X BitTorrent client, has recently been updated to version 4.2.0.2, adding a trio of user interface tweaks, as well as a couple of fixes. Vuze, formerly known as Azureus, brings the popular Java-based BitTorrent client to a new level of stability, usability, and speed, according to its ... |
10 April 2009
05:29 GMT |
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Vuze is a powerful BitTorrent client that greatly extends the original Python client's feature set. Formerly known as Azureus, Vuze can manage multiple downloads at once from a single window, or offer detailed real-time download statistics with export to XML, advanced download and seeding management rules, confi... |
23 March 2009
10:47 GMT |
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Transmission, one of the most popular BitTorrent clients for Mac OS X, has reached version 1.51, adding support for Internet Explorer, as well as layout fixes when viewed on an iPhone/iPod touch. These are just a few of the platform-specific changes occurring with the software. Read on for the full scoop and the down... |
27 February 2009
06:05 GMT |
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Transmission, the popular BitTorrent client for Mac OS X, has reached its sixth beta for version 1.50. The software is free to download and install on any Mac running the latest version of Tiger or higher (Leopard).According to the release notes for Transmission 1.50 Beta 6, the update in question has three high-prio... |
13 February 2009
06:25 GMT |
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Softpedia has recently learned that Aperture 2.1.2, the latest version of the Apple-developed photography software, has been pirated and made available for illegal download through file sharing web sites.As avid Softpedia readers should know, Apple's recently updated application suites, iWork '09 and iLife ... |
3 February 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Last week, we reported that around 20,000 users of file-sharing web sites were pirating copies of iLife '09, the latest version of Apple's multimedia-focused suite of Applications. While the software is evidently more popular than Apple's iWork '09 suite, it seems that iLife '09 has somehow e... |
2 February 2009
05:15 GMT |
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The folks at Gnutella network have updated their P2P file sharing utility, LimeWire. Version X 5.0.11 Beta is available for immediate download right here on our web site. The new release adds a number of fixes to issues reported by users of the previous version of the software, but not only.Particularly, LimeWire X 5... |
30 January 2009
05:12 GMT |
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Free tools made available by Google in collaboration with the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, and academic researchers, are designed to measure Internet connections and to even test whether BitTorrent is blocked or throttled. The Measurement Lab (M-Lab) was born in r... |
29 January 2009
06:31 GMT |
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Vuze is a powerful BitTorrent client that greatly extends the original Python client's feature set. It can manage multiple downloads at once from a single window, or offer detailed real-time download statistics with export to XML, advanced download and seeding management rules, configuration and torrent creation... |
27 January 2009
10:49 GMT |
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One of the most popular, C-written BitTorrent clients for Mac OS X, Transmission has reached its third Beta in version 1.50. The free application aims to be as efficient as possible. Details on the new release, as well as a download link are available just below.Transmission is a BitTorrent client much like Vuze, or ... |
23 January 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Transmission, one of the favorites in BitTorrent clients for Mac, has reached version 1.50 Beta, adding support for Internet Protocol version 6, (IPv6). The latest stable version of the software (Transmission 1.42) is also available for free download. According to the changelog, Transmission 1.50 Beta 1 adds IPv6 su... |
12 January 2009
04:51 GMT |
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While still in Beta, uTorrent is being cleansed and “purified” once every few days since its official introduction for the Macintosh last month. The latest version of uTorrent for Mac delivers enhancements spanning CPU usage, error message display, and selective downloading. uTorrent is a BitTorrent clien... |
10 December 2008
10:17 GMT |
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Spore had all the aces up its sleeve in order to become a best selling title. It promised players the ability to create their own creatures and then lead them through various stages of evolution until they could travel through space and visit other planets developed by other players. It delivered on all of these, but... |
8 December 2008
03:24 GMT |
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BitTorrent Inc has released a new version of its popular BitTorrent client (recently released on Mac), uTorrent 0.9.0.1. The new release fixes a crash in Finder, and delivers a promise from the development team that PPC users will soon be supported just as well as Intel users. “We've just released µT... |
4 December 2008
08:52 GMT |
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One of the favorites of Mac BitTorrent clients, Transmission, has recently been updated to include both core changes, as well as Mac-specific additions. A few web client changes have also made their way into the 1.40 release. Read on for the full scoop. Changes for all platforms include (highlights): - More accurate... |
28 November 2008
08:25 GMT |
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Formerly known as Azureus, Vuze is a powerful BitTorrent client, much like the uTorrent often used by PC users. The application is currently at its third beta release (the third one for version 4.0), which brings UI tweaks, as well as core changes. Some highlights are listed below, along with a download link for the ... |
28 November 2008
06:31 GMT |
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µTorrent has finally been released for Mac. This is the first official Mac beta for Intel Macs running OS X 10.5 Leopard. The software is free to download and use. Users are advised to exercise caution while using the still buggy-software. TUAW notes that this first Mac version of µTorrent doesn't ha... |
27 November 2008
04:49 GMT |
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Vuze (formerly known as Azureus) has reached version 4.0, adding almost two dozen new features, and double that amount in changes and bug fixes. The freeware torrent client is the most popular of its kind for Mac, having been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times here on Softpedia.Vuze is a powerful BitTorrent cl... |
15 October 2008
11:14 GMT |
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Secunia has issued two advisories, SA31441 and SA31445, regarding a highly critical vulnerability that affects uTorrent versions 1.6, 1.7.x up to 1.8 RC6, as well as the BitTorrent mainline client 6.0 up to 6.0.3. Secunia rated this vulnerability as "Highly Critical" because it can allow an attacker to perform Denial... |
13 August 2008
02:56 GMT |
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Comcast subscribers that wanted to share files with the aid of BitTorrent trackers found that the Internet provider had imposed a certain traffic limit. Kevin J. Martin, Chairman of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) said that the previously mentioned company will not be fined, but measures will be taken to ... |
14 July 2008
06:52 GMT |
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Comcast, one of the largest ISP in the United States, saw its website hacked last night with a strange message displayed to all the visitors: "KRYOGENIKS EBK and DEFIANT RoXed COMCAST sHouTz To VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven". What's interesting is that it seems like the hackers managed to break into the ser... |
29 May 2008
05:24 GMT |
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Mininova, which is said to be the most popular BitTorrent website on the Internet, has just reached a new milestone as it passed 5 billion torrent downloads. The announcement comes after only one week since BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy group, said it planned to file a lawsuit against Mininova because it provided links ... |
27 May 2008
02:43 GMT |
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The Pirate Bay is surely one of the most popular BitTorrent services on the web and this not necessarily to the quality of the services it provides but also thanks to the way it got promoted on the Internet. In the latest few months, The Pirate Bay was brought in the spotlights every once in a while as several copyri... |
19 May 2008
03:52 GMT |
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