techcrunch.com — Red Swoosh quietly came out of Beta and released FoxTorrent, a Firefox extension anybody can use. Mac/Linux/PC support, streaming torrent downloads, auto-configuration. Pretty cool open-sourced project on GoogleCode opened project up at www.foxtorrent.com
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cobaltdartApr 28, 2007
Well, the 7-11 clerk who wrote that section of the code was tired... cut him a break, after all, it's for the community!~(
cimliteApr 28, 2007
Bitcomet has had preview/streaming capabilities forever. That's nothing new.If I understand it correctly it starts to request pieces in sequence as best it can. It then plays it in a built in version of Media Player Classic. I've not used that feature all that much but it worked kind of OKish, if you get very fast download speeds. If you don't it takes forever and you basically have to get the whole file before it starts.
meopameopaApr 28, 2007
guess what tomtomtom? I already did.
raddaApr 28, 2007
So basically this is like uTorrent with the WebUI, only with less features and an added and completely useless streaming function?Yeah, sign me up.
spinmonkeyApr 28, 2007
@dbr_onyxfrom the app website"Background DownloadingContinues to work even after your browser window has been closed."But I agree also.. not a very resource friendly way of downloading a torrent... and you'd need a fairly well seeded torrent as you say, from a private tracker.
starfire039Apr 28, 2007
It irritates me when people call computers running Windows "PCs". OK, so this extension runs on Linux, Mac, and Personal Computers. Right. I guess it's the media brainwashing, like when you get anyone that's not really technology literate saying "have you got an iPod, or an MP3 player?". It's advertising gone wild.
Closed AccountApr 28, 2007
Mac OS has supported right click for as long as I can remember.
fpassantinoMay 4, 2007
also i suggest to use Torrentools, is a browser toolbar for Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer; allows to search 41 specialized torrent search sites for needed files (2torrents, bitenova, bitoogle, bittorrent, bittorrentshare, bt.etree, btbot, btjunkie, btwarehouse, bushtorrent, demonoid, extratorrent, fenopy, flextorrents, fulldls, google, isohunt, jabberwalker, letwory, litebay, meganova, mininova, monova, mybittorrent, newtorrents, nova9, orbdesign, smaragdtorrent, snarf-it, thepiratebay, torrentat, torrentbox, torrentfinder, torrentportal, torrentreactor, torrentspy, torrenttyphoon, torrentvalley, torrentz, worldnova, yotoshi).Extra feature: torrent newsfeed, links to 30 torrent’s sites, links to 12 torrent’s group of discussion, links to 12 torrent’s forum.<a class="user" href="http://torrentools.communitytoolbars.com/">http://torrentools.communitytoolbars.com/</a>
logicallygeniusAug 3, 2007
When will this wait for sequential bittorrent downloading client end ?
arytsolaDec 12, 2007
Seems that the RSInstaller-Linux-i386 is only compatible with newer Linux, e.g. RHEL5.0. On 4u5 libssl.so.0.9.8 is not available even from rpmforge/etc.% sudo ./RSInstaller-Linux-i386./RSInstaller-Linux-i386: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryWhy can't they compile static binaries for distribution? It's not That difficult?