Allpeers is a revolutionary Firefox extension that makes it possible to share pictures, music and video’s within Firefox. The files are distributed using BitTorrent. Allpeers is not yet squeezing everything out of BitTorrent, but Matthew Gertner from Allpeers told TorrentFreak that this will definitely change in the near future.
The popular BitTorrent client Azureus received funding by BV Capital, a company that previously supported del.icio.us and peerflix.
Azureus is currently implementing a “content layer” where commercial downloads will start to appear. Users will be able to search for certain keywords, or browse through the available content by tags.
Azureus is downloaded almost 2million times every [...]
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BitTorrent just released version 4.20. The new version gives ISP’s a “customer friendly” alternative to manage the increasing bandwidth need that is caused by BitTorrent traffic; caching traffic instead of throttling or shaping.
In an attempt to decrease the bandwidth generated by BitTorrent traffic, ISP’s started to shape and throttle BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By [...]
Limewire, one of the most popular filesharing applications just released V 4.12 and announced that limewire will support .torrent downloads in the near future.
WizBit is a BitTorrent client for symbian S60 smartphones, using python. WizBit is not fully functional yet but David Hulbert, the developer of the Mobile BitTorrent client is planning to release the first major release on July 7.
Bitcomet is trying to get to V1.0 as soon as possible. While the popular BitTorrent client only released 4 new versions in 2005 (0.57 - 0.60), it now releases three “brand new” versions in one month.
And yet another fresh release of the popular BitTorrent client Bitcomet. Bitcomet 0.64 now supports rss-feeds and the optional IE toolbar has been removed.
Other changes:
- GUI Bugfix: chat user list is removed temporarily
- Core Bugfix: fix the bug that the play button doesn’t work after click stop button in task preview window
- Core Bugfix: [...]
Azureus won the award for “most popular open-source software” This is the result of the first annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. Azureus is one of the most active and most downloaded project on SourceForge. It seems that P2P software is popular, because Emule finished in second position.
Azureus just released a brand new version. Azureus is still SourceForge’s most active project, and in the top 3 of most downloaded utilities. There are no new gadgets, primarily bugfixes and performance improvements.
including:
Encryption bug fix
Faster crash recovery hashing
Reduced the # of windows popping up at once on first run after installation
Fixed startup when [...]
Tribler is a new BitTorrent client that adds a social layer on top of the regular features. Tribler allows you to create groups, friends and it supports tags and profiles. The official release of this Social BitTorrent client is tomorrow, but everyone is free to grab a test version from tribler.org.
This first version is an [...]
