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Download Torrent Files Without BitTorrent via HttpTorrents

Monday, November 16, 2009

Now-a-days even technically enabled guys are finding it difficult to optimize their BitTorrent clients for the highest speeds and/or bypass the ISP/firewall blocks while downloading torrent files on the internet. Here is where, httpTorrents comes to the rescue! Direct download of Torrent files httpTorrents provides the option to download files directly without having a BitTorrent client! As [...]

Free Anonymous BitTorrent With ‘ItsHidden’

Monday, July 27, 2009

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Free Anonymous BitTorrent With ‘ItsHidden’

With increasing number of ISPs and anti-piracy organizations holding the peer-to-peer BitTorrent users at ransom, more and more BitTorrent users are looking for solutions to hide their identities from the prying eyes of the outside world. The most common and widely used privacy services are the VPNs (Top 5 Free VPNs listed here) that allow [...]

[Firefox Friday] FireTorrent – Download Torrents from Firefox

Thursday, December 18, 2008

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As we all know, Opera supports download of torrent files within the browser eliminating the need of external torrent clients. Same is not true with Firefox. Fortunately, we now have an extension which lets us download .torrent files within Firefox. FireTorrent integrates BitTorrent into the existing download manager of Firefox. Now, you can download torrents like [...]

[How to] Test if Your ISP is Throttling your Torrent Speed

Monday, November 3, 2008

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ISPs are increasingly deploying a variety of middleboxes (e.g., firewalls, traffic shapers, censors, and redirectors) to monitor and to manipulate the performance of applications like peer-to-peer and Torrents. Most ISPs do not reveal the details of their network deployments to their customers. This knowledge is important to help users make a more informed choice of [...]

Speckly – The Simplest Way to Search Torrents

Thursday, July 17, 2008

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Speckly is a Google-like, ad-free torrent search site which strips all the unnecessary bittorrent-specific language from the results, and simply presents a long list of results, together with the number of complete and partial sources. This, in fact, is all you really need to find the torrents you need. The only problem, unfortunately, is that [...]