Thursday, April 12, 2007

the full Bittorrent guide for the mac user

beginners some time get the feeling that torrents for the mac OS are not as advanced as at windows.
if you just switched thinking about switching here is may guide for Tottents on MAC OS.
first there are the clients
there are 3 popular clients for MAC (i bet there are a few more please comment if you can recommend on one).

1. Azureus i think this is the most famous client of them all: pure java (for good and bad), open source and has some really good features the winning one for me was the ability to choose which files to download from a .torrent file.
pros: alot of features, open source.
cons: very slow, pretty heavy on the memory.

2. Transmission a very nice open source BitTorrent client only for mac OS X seems to work very fast and doesn't have a lot of effect on the memory. but this client is also thin in the features part although it has a great UI.
pros: very small and fast, great UI.
cons: not to many features and seems very basic.

3. xtorrent from my point of view the best BitTorrent client for the MAC OS, a lot of features (the only one who has built in search) and all kind of features. the only problem is that you have to pay 20$ for the full version.
pros: very light and beautiful, packed with features.
cons: you have to pay 20$ to really enjoy it.

ok now that you have the right client you need to start download torrent files.
there all kind of torrent sites out there some great some not...
but a most have little software if you download TV shows is TVShows that automatically download the latest episodes of your favorite tv shows.

that it please feel free to comment.

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