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TorrentFetcher Searches For Torrents From Your Desktop
6:00AM Whitson Gordon | Windows only: Most people use torrent sites like Mininova or The Pirate Bay to search for torrents online, but free program TorrentFetcher lets you search straight from a desktop program and quickly start the transfer in your BitTorrent client of your choice. More »
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The Pirate Bay Officially Shutting Down For Good
2:30AM Adam Pash | The Pirate Bay, the largest, most popular BitTorrent tracker on the internet, has faced seriously troubled times this year, and today, the site’s operators announce that they’re officially closing their doors for good. More »
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httpTorrents Downloads Torrents Via Your Browser
8:30AM Whitson Gordon | BitTorrent is extremely useful for lots of downloading and file-sharing, but if a less tech-inclined friend of yours doesn’t understand BitTorrent or you can’t install a BitTorrent client, new website httpTorrents lets you download files of popular torrents directly via HTTP. More »
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Libox Shares Your Music, Movies And More On A Private Network
8:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows/Mac: Libox makes it easy to share music, movies and photos with your friends in a private P2P network. More »
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Illegal Downloaders Spend More On Music
5:35AM Adam Pash | According to a poll conducted in the UK, people who admit to illegally downloading music also spend more money on music every year than those who don’t. More »
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Fix uTorrent (And Other Application) Quirks In Windows 7
6:30AM Whitson Gordon | If you’re having issues with the popular BitTorrent application uTorrent in Windows 7, such as memory overusage, downloads stopping at 99.9 per cent or false reports, weblog AddictiveTips offers some tips to get your downloads back on track. More »
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Google Adds Shared Folders To Docs
10:45AM Adam Pash | Good news for people using Google Docs to share or collaborate on documents: Google today has added folder sharing and multiple document uploading to its popular suite of web-based document and spreadsheet apps. More »
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Google Removes Pirate Bay’s Front Page From Search Results
4:00AM Adam Pash | BitTorrent web site TorrentFreak reports that Google has removed the front page of popular BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay from their search results due to a DMCA takedown request, regardless of the fact that there are no torrents available to download on TPB’s front page.
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PeerBlock Protects Your Privacy With Less Annoyance
6:30AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Previously mentioned PeerBlock—a fork of the inactive but still popular Peer Guardian 2—has just released an update complete with various bug fixes and a signed driver that should eliminate some Windows 7 and Vista UAC annoyances. Other than that, it’s just an all-around more stable release than when we last posted about it. More »
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