bittorrent
BitTorrent 4.4.1
BitTorrent is a P2P Protocol for file distribution more>>
Its advantage over plain http is that when multiple downloads of the same file happen concurrently, the downloaders upload to each other, making it possible for the file source to support very large numbers of downloaders with only a modest increase in its load.
BitTorrent is a simple software product which addresses all of these problems.
The key to scaleable and robust distribution is to tap the unutilized upstream broadband capacity of your customers. Its free and abundant. Their contribution grows at the same rate as their demand, creating limitless scalability for a fixed cost.
BitTorrent is not just a concept, but has a functioning implementation, already capable of swarming downloads across unreliable networks. BitTorrent has been embraced by numerous publishers to cost-effectively distribute to millions of users.
BitTorrent is the result of over two years of intensive development.
BitTorrent Live Feed and Search 1.0
BitTorrent Live Feed and Search - Widget for bittorrent search and more more>>
Live self updating submssion spy and bittorrent search.
Enhancements:
- Initial release.
BitTyrant 1.1
BitTyrant is a new, protocol compatible BitTorrent client that is optimized for fast download performance more>> <<less
libtorrent 0.14.4
Free and open source C++ library that aims to be a good alternative to all the other bittorrent implementations around more>> Free and open source C++ library that aims to be a good alternative to all the other bittorrent implementations around
libtorrent is a C++ implementation of the BitTorrent protocol with the goals of being efficient and easy to use.
libtorrent is a C++ library that aims to be a good alternative to all the other bittorrent implementations around.
Although it comes with a working example client, libtorrent is a library and not a full featured client.
The main goals of libtorrent are:
- to be cpu efficient
- to be memory efficient
- to be very easy to use
libtorrent has been successfully compiled and tested on:
- Windows 2000 vc7.1, vc8
- Linux x86 GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4.2
- Mac OS X (darwin), (Apples) GCC 3.3, (Apples) GCC 4.0
- Sun OS 5.8 GCC 3.1
- Cygwin GCC 3.3.3
NOTE: libtorrent is licensed and released under the BSD-license.
Main features:
- trackerless torrents (using the Mainline kademlia DHT protocol) with some DHT extensions.
- support for IPv6
- NAT-PMP and UPnP support (automatic port mapping on routers that supports it)
- piece-wise, unordered, incremental file allocation
- uses separate threads for checking files and for main downloader, with a fool-proof thread-safe library interface. (i.e. Theres no way for the user to cause a deadlock). (see threads)
- adjusts the length of the request queue depending on download rate.
- multitracker extension support (as specified by John Hoffman)
- supports files > 2 gigabytes.
- serves multiple torrents on a single port and in a single thread
- fast resume support, a way to get rid of the costly piece check at the start of a resumed torrent. Saves the storage state, piece_picker state as well as all local peers in a separate fast-resume file.
- HTTP seeding, as specified by Michael Burford of GetRight.
- piece picking on block-level (as opposed to piece-level). This means it can download parts of the same piece from different peers. It will also prefer to download whole pieces from single peers if the download speed is high enough from that particular peer.
- supports the udp-tracker protocol by Olaf van der Spek.
- queues torrents for file check, instead of checking all of them in parallel.
- supports http proxies and basic proxy authentication
- gzipped tracker-responses
- can limit the upload and download bandwidth usage and the maximum number of unchoked peers
- implements fair trade. User settable trade-ratio, must at least be 1:1, but one can choose to trade 1 for 2 or any other ratio that isnt unfair to the other party.
- supports an extension protocol. See extensions.
- supports the no_peer_id=1 extension that will ease the load off trackers.
- possibility to limit the number of connections.
- delays have messages if theres no other outgoing traffic to the peer, and doesnt send have messages to peers that already has the piece. This saves bandwidth.
- does not have any requirements on the piece order in a torrent that it resumes. This means it can resume a torrent downloaded by any client.
- supports the compact=1 tracker parameter.
- selective downloading. The ability to select which parts of a torrent you want to download.
- ip filter to disallow ip addresses and ip ranges from connecting and being connected
Enhancements
- connect candidate calculation fix
- tightened up disk cache memory usage
- fixed magnet link parser to accept hex-encoded info-hashes
- fixed inverted logic when picking which peers to connect to
- (should mean a slight performance improvement)
- fixed a bug where a failed rename_file() would leave the storage
- in an error state which would pause the torrent
- fixed case when move_storage() would fail. Added a new alert
- to be posted when it does
- fixed crash bug when shutting down while checking a torrent
- fixed handling of web seed urls that didnt end with a
- slash for multi-file torrents
- lowered the default connection speed to 10 connection attempts
- per second
- optimized memory usage when checking files fails
- fixed bug when checking a torrent twice
- improved handling of out-of-memory conditions in disk I/O thread
- fixed bug when force-checking a torrent with partial pieces
- fixed memory leak in disk cache
- fixed torrent file path vulnerability
- fixed upnp
- fixed bug when dealing with clients that drop requests (i.e. BitComet)
- fixes assert as well
CreateTorrent Widget 1.0
CreateTorrent Widget - a little widget for creating .torrent files more>>
You just have to drop a directory or some files from Finder/Desktop on it and it will create a BitTorrent file on your desktop.
sharktorrent 0.1.8.2 Beta
sharktorrent is an open source / freeware p2p bittorrent client written in C++ more>>
Torrent Searcher X 0.3b
Torrent Searcher is a small convenient app that searches 5 major Bittorrent Trackers, and opens the results in your default web browser more>>
Torrent Searcher X 0.3b is a user-friendly and reliable application that searches 5 major Bittorrent Trackers, and opens the results in your default web browser. Trackers are:The Pirate Bay, BTBot, BitTorrent Search, Yotoshi, Isohunt.
FireANT 1.0b4
FireANT - RSS video aggregator & player (was ANT) more>>
FireAnt connects your favorite media to a wide variety of portable video players (Sony PSP, Apple iPod, Creative Zen Vision and more!) which gives you the power and flexibility to get media content right onto your portable devices! FireAnt also supports HTTP, Streaming, and BitTorrent downloads, bringing you an easy and efficient way of getting what you want when you want it.
With FireANT, you can subscribe to any RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures.
FireANT will automatically download fresh audio and video content for you to watch and listen to. It can playback any media format, and syncs audio files with iTunes so you can easily add them to your portable MP3 player.
FireANT is a stage that allows anyone to share their original video creations -- from personal video journals made by an emerging community of videobloggers, to the growing ranks of distributed citizen journalists, to home video simply intended for friends and family.
BitRocket 0.3.3(32)
BitRocket - BitTorrent client with built-in RSS support, torrent search more>>
BitRocket is a tool designed to be a good alternative to other Mac OS BitTorrent clients.
Main features:
UI Features:
- RSS support (Download .torrents from within the application)
- Integrated (Customizable) Search Engine
- Flexible Filtering
- Torrent Generator
- Live Info View
- UPnP and NAT-PMP Port Forwarding
Core(libtorrent) Features:
- Trackerless torrents (using a kademlia DHT)
- multitracker extension support (as specified by John Hoffman)
- serves multiple torrents on a single port and in a single thread
- gzipped tracker-responses
- HTTP seeding, as specified by Michael Burford of GetRight.
- piece picking on block-level (as opposed to piece-level). This means it can download parts of the same piece from different peers. It will also prefer to download whole pieces from single peers if the download speed is high enough from that particular peer.
- queues torrents for file check, instead of checking all of them in parallel.
- supports http proxies and proxy authentication
- uses separate threads for checking files and for main downloader, with a fool-proof thread-safe library interface. (i.e. Theres no way for the user to cause a deadlock).
- can limit the upload and download bandwidth usage and the maximum number of unchoked peers
- piece-wise, unordered, incremental file allocation
- implements fair trade. User settable trade-ratio, must at least be 1:1, but one can choose to trade 1 for 2 or any other ratio that isnt unfair to the other party.
- fast resume support, a way to get rid of the costly piece check at the start of a resumed torrent. Saves the storage state, piece_picker state as well as all local peers in a separate fast-resume file.
- supports an extension protocol.
- supports files > 2 gigabytes.
- supports the no_peer_id=1 extension that will ease the load off trackers.
- supports the udp-tracker protocol by Olaf van der Spek.
- possibility to limit the number of connections.
- delays have messages if theres no other outgoing traffic to the peer, and doesnt send have messages to peers that already has the piece. This saves bandwidth.
- does not have any requirements on the piece order in a torrent that it resumes. This means it can resume a torrent downloaded by any client.
- adjusts the length of the request queue depending on download rate.
- supports the compact=1 tracker parameter.
- selective downloading. The ability to select which parts of a torrent you want to download.
- ip filter.
Torrent.search Widget 1.4
Torrent.search Widget - Searches multiple bittorrent search engines more>>
search on:
- astatorrents.com
- bittorrent.com
- bitzip.com
- btbot.com
- btjunkie.org
- bushtorrents.com
- demonoid.com
- fenopy.com
- futuretorrents.com
- isohunt.com
- meganova.org
- mininova.org
- monova.org
- mybittorrent.com
- needtorrents.com
- newtorrents.info
- onlytorrents.com
- snarf-it.org
- thepiratebay.org
- throughput.de
- torrentbox.com
- torrentportal.com
- torrentreactor.net
- torrentspy.com
- torrentvalley.com
- torrentz.com
your favourite bittorrent search engine is missing?
just drop me an email and ill try to add it in the next version!
Enhancements:
- added astatorrents.com
- added bushtorrents.com
- added fenopy.com
- added futuretorrents.com
- added meganova.org
- added monova.org
- added needtorrents.com
- added onlytorrents.com
- added snarf-it.org
- added throughput.de
- added torrentvalley.com
- removed bitoogle.com
- removed hypertorrent.com
- removed yotoshi.com
- fixed bittorrent.com
- disabled option to display a custom number of search results (most sites dont support this anyway)
btpd-front 0.185
btpd-front - a front-end for BitTorrent Protocol Daemon more>>
Btpd is the acronym for BitTorrent Protocol Daemon. btpd-front is made for a complete and easy tune-up and use of BTPD and for a light use of the BitTorrent protocol.

BitTyrant for Mac OS X 1.1.1
A new, protocol compatible BitTorrent client that is optimized for fast download more>> BitTyrant is a new, protocol compatible BitTorrent client that is optimized for fast download performance. BitTyrant is...
Fast:During evaluation testing on more than 100 real BitTorrent swarms, BitTyrant provided an average 70% download performance increase when compared to the existing Azureus 2.5 implementation, with some downloads finishing more than three times as quickly.
Fair:BitTorrent was designed with incentives in mind: if a user is downloading at 30 KBps, they should upload at 30 KBps. However, due to the unique workload properties of many real-world swarms, this is not always enforced. BitTyrant is designed to make efficient use of your scarce upload bandwidth, rewarding those users whose upload allocations are fair and only allocating excess capacity to other users.
Familiar:BitTyrant is based on modifications to Azureus 2.5, currently the most popular BitTorrent client. All of our changes are under the hood. You find the GUI identical to Azureus, with optional additions to display statistics relevant to BitTyrant operation.<<less
Bits on Wheels 1.0.6
Bits on Wheels is a BitTorrent client more>>
Dont forget to setup/check your Preferences when using version 1.0.x for the first time.
Please visit the Bits on Wheels page for all your technical questions, suggestions, bug reports...
You will also find screenshots, news, etc.
And dont forget to check the often-updated News page too !
Enhancements:
New:
- You can now click and rotate/move/zoom the 3D Swarm view ! Use the command/option/control keys while dragging to move/zoom/rotate the view.
- new 3D Swarm representation : Vertical Race ! Peers start at the bottom and raise up as they complete a torrent.
- new 3D tools palette lets you rotate and zoom the 3D view. 3D Options have been moved there.
- IP addresses can now be selected and copied to the clipboard, inside the Peers view.
Fixes :
- endgame was so-so in 105 and seems to be real nice now.
- when rechecking hash, the available pieces werent re-sorted resulting in 0 piece being downloaded.
- crash when updating the validated graph.
- removed a couple deadlocks.
- crash in race condition.
- visual artefacts while checking hash in 3D swarm view.
- tidying up multi-threading.
- Memory leak when stopping torrents. Another leak with outgoing connexions.
- Better Peer handshaking when peer has 0 piece available.
- Most Panther crashes.
- Many fixes here and there.
Mods :
- modified the pieces ring in the 3d view to be more accurate.
- changed the amount of requested pieces to avoid stalling.
Known Problems :
- Panther only : BoW seems to be incompatible with some APE modules.

Fire 0.2b
Fire is a program for you to search torrents. more>>
Fire 0.2b is a program for you to search torrents. Fire gives you one click access to 6 of the best torrent sites and allows you to browse and download torrent files. Fire is the perfect companion to Transmission or Vuze and is lightweight and fast.
Fire gives you access to:
- The Pirate Bay
- Mininova
- isoHunt
- My Bittorrent
- Demonoid
- Torrent Reactor.
PLEASE NOTE: Fires Developers do not promote piracy. This software is not intended for such use.
Enhancements:
- New navigation buttons- Back and Refresh
- Improved UI
- Basic WebView Controls with keyboard shortcuts
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- BitTorrent client.