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Best bittorrent client for mac?
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Amen to doing a search. Quicker and less sarcastic than making a duplicate thread.
And yes, to answer your question, Transmission is one of the most popular BitTorrent clients for Mac. I use it and love it. Very nice app.
And yes, to answer your question, Transmission is one of the most popular BitTorrent clients for Mac. I use it and love it. Very nice app.
Tomato Torrent is excellent.
Very low CPU even when downloading several at once and memorises the locations of where you're saving the download to as well as the torrent files themselves.
I absolutely swear by it for "time shifting" purposes
It's also good for beta testing albums that turn out to have less than 10 minutes of meaningful music on them when that 30 second preview on iTunes just doesn't give you enough of an idea
Very low CPU even when downloading several at once and memorises the locations of where you're saving the download to as well as the torrent files themselves.
I absolutely swear by it for "time shifting" purposes
It's also good for beta testing albums that turn out to have less than 10 minutes of meaningful music on them when that 30 second preview on iTunes just doesn't give you enough of an idea
Tomato Torrent is excellent.
Very low CPU even when downloading several at once and memorises the locations of where you're saving the download to as well as the torrent files themselves.
I absolutely swear by it for "time shifting" purposes
It's also good for beta testing albums that turn out to have less than 10 minutes of meaningful music on them when that 30 second preview on iTunes just doesn't give you enough of an idea
ooohh..... naughty naughty
I like your careful wording there, man
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They are really good about getting updates that makes things work better all the time too!
can trojans be hidden in music/video file downloaded with these torrent clients? or do you have to "install" a trojan?
As of right now, the only known trojan that would effect Macs is found in a pirated copy of iWork 09. In theory, a trojan could be hidden in just about any type of file, but you would have to give it initial access to your machine for it to work.
Used transmission, utorrent and vuze and and I am sticking with vuze even though it takes up more memory it has alot of features that I find useful.
They must be installed with an administrator password (unless you are logged in as the root user, which you aren't.)
Why I've just started with transmission and never had a reason to keep looking. But maybe I'll give this uTorrent a spin.
uTorrent worked best for me when I was mass-downloading Linux distros. Usually Transmission is fine.
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They are really good about getting updates that makes things work better all the time too!
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Transmission is brilliant! I used to use Vuze, but found it to be a memory hog.