uTorrent is awesome. I have yet to find a torrent client for OS X that is as cool as it. If Transmission added selective file downloading then I'd be happy
I have bittorrent, transmission and azureus. Azureus is the best so far but I have a program called Democracy, it is a internet TV thingy but it will download torrents as well at pretty high speeds. 45% faster than bittorrent and transmission and a little bit more faster than azureus.
Give it a go and let me know what you think of it.
To start a torrent in democracy just right click on the torrent and click "open with" and click on democracy.
do you know in azureus how can i choose what files must be downloaded instead of the entire torrent?
Go to the "Files" tab of the torrent and "right click" (or Ctrl-click, I believe, if you have no right mouse button) the files that you don't want to download. There should be an option to not download the file in this context-sensative menu. At least, there is on the Windows side.
I hate limewire. It just screams "poorly built" and "virus central" to me. \ It's not even a bittorrent client. It's a p2p network app. (which as we all know is a haven for piraters.)
Typically I don't really like java based apps. But Azureus is your best bet. The new version 3 beta is pretty good.
xtorrent??? Paying for a Bittorrent app, I dunno. Making my decision easy is the fact that it doesn't even even support encrypted transport, nor selective file downloading... I really miss utorrent (Windows-only BT cliebnt), but will happily use the resource-hungry Azureus until the blessed day when utorrent is ported to OS X...
"Virus"? Now that's a new word. What does it mean? \
Well the correct word is "virii", plural for virus, but since the computer age, it's rarely used.
But either way, just because Macs aren't infected by virii doesn't mean they can't be carriers. I've heard of hundreds of cases of Macs downloading infected software and then being networked to Windows PC's without an internet connection, and that PC will get infected.
xtorrent??? Paying for a Bittorrent app, I dunno. Making my decision easy is the fact that it doesn't even even support encrypted transport, nor selective file downloading... I really miss utorrent (Windows-only BT cliebnt), but will happily use the resource-hungry Azureus until the blessed day when utorrent is ported to OS X...
Transmission is going to be the µTorrent of Mac OS X.
Well the correct word is "virii", plural for virus, ...
'Virii' would be the plural of 'virius', which is not a word I have ever heard of. As far as I recall (I studied latin at university, but it was quite a while ago now), the plural of virus would be 'viri' with one 'i'.
So how about BitTyrant? It's supposed to be a "selfish" version of Azereus. I've just been using that, I'm just getting in to torrents. I used to used Acquisition but it seems like gnutella...is becoming less and less useful.
'Virii' would be the plural of 'virius', which is not a word I have ever heard of. As far as I recall (I studied latin at university, but it was quite a while ago now), the plural of virus would be 'viri' with one 'i'.
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without a doubt, its a bit heavy but with its extra features its worth it
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Give it a go and let me know what you think of it.
To start a torrent in democracy just right click on the torrent and click "open with" and click on democracy.
Transmission and Azerus are decent enough though.
Full featured (but Java): Azureus
Windows: µTorrent (Can be run using CrossOver Mac, Parallels Desktop for Mac, VMware Fusion or Boot Camp.)
do you know in azureus how can i choose what files must be downloaded instead of the entire torrent?
Go to the "Files" tab of the torrent and "right click" (or Ctrl-click, I believe, if you have no right mouse button) the files that you don't want to download. There should be an option to not download the file in this context-sensative menu. At least, there is on the Windows side.
XTorrent is great. It's got a search engine built in to it so you don't have to go on those horrible pop up filled sites.
Is XTorrent a P2P or a torrent (or are they the same thing?)?
Typically I don't really like java based apps. But Azureus is your best bet. The new version 3 beta is pretty good.
I hate limewire. It just screams "poorly built" and "virus central" to me.
"Virus"? Now that's a new word. What does it mean?
"Virus"? Now that's a new word. What does it mean?
Well the correct word is "virii", plural for virus, but since the computer age, it's rarely used.
But either way, just because Macs aren't infected by virii doesn't mean they can't be carriers. I've heard of hundreds of cases of Macs downloading infected software and then being networked to Windows PC's without an internet connection, and that PC will get infected.
xtorrent??? Paying for a Bittorrent app, I dunno. Making my decision easy is the fact that it doesn't even even support encrypted transport, nor selective file downloading... I really miss utorrent (Windows-only BT cliebnt), but will happily use the resource-hungry Azureus until the blessed day when utorrent is ported to OS X...
Transmission is going to be the µTorrent of Mac OS X.
Well the correct word is "virii", plural for virus, ...
'Virii' would be the plural of 'virius', which is not a word I have ever heard of. As far as I recall (I studied latin at university, but it was quite a while ago now), the plural of virus would be 'viri' with one 'i'.
'Virii' would be the plural of 'virius', which is not a word I have ever heard of. As far as I recall (I studied latin at university, but it was quite a while ago now), the plural of virus would be 'viri' with one 'i'.
actually, the plural of virus is "viruses"