phillryu.com— Finally, a torrent app that's super easy to use. Search for files, click download, and bam, they begin downloading, all contained in a super slick Aqua UI. By the guy who made Acquisition and Newsfire.
Sep 11, 2006View in Crawl 4
Personally I've been waiting for a torrent with effective search capabilities for some time. Only one problem, I'm not a Mac user. If anyone knows of such a cilent for Windows client which allows search multiple trackers then let me know please.
What are you talking about! I think you're confusing Xtorrent and David Watanabe with that other guy, who "created" Xfactor with code from Poisoned, and BitRocket from Transmission.David's apps (NewsFire, Acquisition, and Inquisitor) are all original code, and in fact, the base code for Acquisition is actually open source!
Anyone know if this supports auto downloading from torrent RSS feeds? I like democracy but its BT support is a bit shakey and it's a real resource hog. In my opinion Tranmission is the best client out there (tiny, quick and good looking). I just wish it supported RSS...
I know, I know. I tell myself that, but I just can't bring myself to drop $20 for a newsreader. It's not just him, either. $30 for NetNewsWire? I just can't justify that large of a purchase for applications that are somewhat limited in their use.He's a fantastic programmer, and his apps are always beautiful and stable and wonderful to use, but I just can't bring myself to pay $20 a pop for a P2P app, a torrent client and a newsreader.
The whole tracker aspect is the best part of Bittorrent, in my opinion, and this program just seems to get rid of most of the benefits of it, at least on the searching and community aspect of it. With this searching option it's just another p2p program.
@Logan: Acquisition at least sort of breaks the GPL. He basically took Limewire's engine, wrapped it in a daemon, and made his GUI the client so he could charge for it, rather than just sit his GUI on top of the engine and release his code under the GPL as he should. If that flies, it basically means the GPL is worthless. While I'm not a GPL fascist, I don't care to see all the ostensibly protected work everyone has done suddenly not restricted by the terms they dictated when they wrote it.
Pardon me but, if this makes torrent d/l'ing more automated...how will you know if the video if thats what ur d/l'ing is not nuked? or vid/voice badly out of sync
Closed AccountSep 11, 2006
Wow - somthing that all 12 of the MAC users out there can use.
striSep 11, 2006
Personally I've been waiting for a torrent with effective search capabilities for some time. Only one problem, I'm not a Mac user. If anyone knows of such a cilent for Windows client which allows search multiple trackers then let me know please.
jrghoullSep 11, 2006
f*ckin tease!! hope this works out as well as the writer (who seems to want to have sex with the program itself) thinks its going to be.
loganSep 11, 2006
What are you talking about! I think you're confusing Xtorrent and David Watanabe with that other guy, who "created" Xfactor with code from Poisoned, and BitRocket from Transmission.David's apps (NewsFire, Acquisition, and Inquisitor) are all original code, and in fact, the base code for Acquisition is actually open source!
dpowers08Sep 11, 2006
Judging by Watanabe's past, I highly doubt it will be free.
plasticatedSep 12, 2006
Anyone know if this supports auto downloading from torrent RSS feeds? I like democracy but its BT support is a bit shakey and it's a real resource hog. In my opinion Tranmission is the best client out there (tiny, quick and good looking). I just wish it supported RSS...
mcmultiverseSep 12, 2006
I know, I know. I tell myself that, but I just can't bring myself to drop $20 for a newsreader. It's not just him, either. $30 for NetNewsWire? I just can't justify that large of a purchase for applications that are somewhat limited in their use.He's a fantastic programmer, and his apps are always beautiful and stable and wonderful to use, but I just can't bring myself to pay $20 a pop for a P2P app, a torrent client and a newsreader.
onidrakySep 12, 2006
The whole tracker aspect is the best part of Bittorrent, in my opinion, and this program just seems to get rid of most of the benefits of it, at least on the searching and community aspect of it. With this searching option it's just another p2p program.
esquilaxSep 12, 2006
@Logan: Acquisition at least sort of breaks the GPL. He basically took Limewire's engine, wrapped it in a daemon, and made his GUI the client so he could charge for it, rather than just sit his GUI on top of the engine and release his code under the GPL as he should. If that flies, it basically means the GPL is worthless. While I'm not a GPL fascist, I don't care to see all the ostensibly protected work everyone has done suddenly not restricted by the terms they dictated when they wrote it.
mofokerSep 12, 2006
Pardon me but, if this makes torrent d/l'ing more automated...how will you know if the video if thats what ur d/l'ing is not nuked? or vid/voice badly out of sync
macharborguyDec 10, 2006
nope, not chokeware. haven't seen a nag window yet