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As a x-Windows guy and an ardent BitTorrenter I can confidently say that uTorrent is one of the best BitTorrent clients available for Windows 95 through Vista. It’s lean, takes up very little memory and doesn’t need to be installed, you can even run it off a USB pen drive. It also offers all the important features like Selective Downloading, Universal Plug ‘n’ Play Support, Super Seeding Mode and RSS Feeds Subscription. Soon we will also be able to use uTorrent via a web-interface.

In general BitTorrent clients are not the most “resource using” applications. But how do they actually affect, and slow down Windows? Thepcspy compared the three most popular BitTorrent clients. And it seems that uTorrent is indeed entitled to be called “the lightweight client”. The mean boot time of Azureus, Bitcomet and uTorrent were compared on [...]

Xtorrent is a new BitTorrent client for Mac OSX. Unlike other BitTorrent clients, Xtorrent allows you to browse, download and search for torrents without using a web browser. I stumbled upon some prerelease screenshots of Xtorrent over at phillryu. It is unsure if the application will be free, and if not, how much it will [...]

qTorrent is a lightweight, but feature rich BitTorrent client for Linux. The latest release includes Audio/Video File previewing. Other features are: UPnP port mapping Peer exchange Prioritization Selective Downloading Search engine Torrent creator Ip Filter qBitTorrent is based on the Libtorrent library and is written in C++. Here is a screenshot. You can download qBitTorrent [...]

We e-mailed Julian Cain, the developer of BitRocket and he was gracious enough to set aside some time to talk to TorrentFreak about his Mac BitTorrent client that’s been making headlines over the last few days. The interview: TorrentFreak: What made you decide to develop BitRocket? Julian: I wanted to develop a BitTorrent client for [...]

Bitcomet has been a controversial BitTorrent client for quite a while now. Version 0.59 and 0.60 ignored the “private flag”, and soon after that Bitcomet was banned from most private trackers.

Earlier this week we reviewed BitTorrent clients for Mac OSX. This probably inspired the developer af Bitrocket, to launch this new BitTorrent client’ Based on the feature list it looks like Bitrocket could give the existing BitTorrent clients some tough competition. Bitrocket supports essential features like: DHT: Support for “trackerless” torrents. DHT keeps the torrent [...]