There are more BitTorrent clients than we could possibly compare, but some of the most popular — and best — have been under the spotlight lately for sleazy ads and bad behaviour. It's time to check in on a few of our favourites to see how they fare, which deserves your downloads and which ones you can trust.
Sometimes when you're on the go, you want to start your home PC downloading a torrent to be ready for you when you get home. Thanks to cloud storage powerhouse Dropbox, the solution is simpler than you may think.
In a move that's likely too little, too late, uTorrent has decided to stop bundling crapware with its (once) popular BitTorrent client. While it hasn't come up with an alternative just yet, the developer plans to be more "open and transparent" as it considers its options.
Even if you've switched to another torrent client (or just an older version of uTorrent), now's the time to make sure there are no hidden Bitcoin miners hogging your idle system resources. You'll have to dive into your registry and file system, but a little effort is worth the peace of mind.
uTorrent has napalmed the last of its bridges, first by bundling adware with its installer and now, allegedly, a Bitcoin miner. If you're ready to ditch uTorrent, there are plenty of alternatives available.
BitTorrent is great for downloading multiple files in a group, but you can actually download them in order with uTorrent — so you can start listening to that first track right away, before the whole torrent has downloaded.
uTorrent is a great app, but it can be annoying to have ads on your desktop apps. Fortunately, these can be disabled in the Advanced settings.
Newer versions of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent feature sponsored torrents and a small ad unit on the bottom of the left-hand sidebar. If you'd prefer a less cluttered interface, you can easily disable these ads via the Preferences menu.
uTorrent, our favorite BitTorrent client for Windows, just updated with a few minor additions, including a $US25 premium client with built-in video encoding, virus scanning, and the ability to download torrents from anywhere.
Mac OS X: uTorrent has long been our favourite BitTorrent client on Windows, but its Mac version was severely lacking in features. Today, it's finally out of beta, and much closer to feature parity with its Windows cousin, adding support for RSS feeds, scheduling and a new remote interface optimised for tablets.
The latest alpha version of uTorrent for Windows (sorry Mac users) has a great new feature: you can drag and drop media downloads onto your Android, iPhone, Xbox 360 or PS3. Currently it won't convert the files to a playable format, but that's expected alongside the upcoming premium release of uTorrent Pro.
BitTorrent etiquette dictates that once you've downloaded files, you also seed them to help others' downloads go quickly. If you need to move or rename your download, everything's thrown off. Lifehacker reader Jake Champion explains how to seed after moving or renaming files.
Windows only: Popular BitTorrent client uTorrent added a web interface, so you can remotely access your transfers from a web browser. Since then, they've added support for the web interface to the iPhone and, more recently, iPad and Android devices.
Popular Windows BitTorrent client uTorrent just released its first stable 1.0 client for Mac yesterday, but most users are sceptical about leaving Mac favourite Transmission (which recently reached the 2.0 milestone). Here's how the two stack up against one another.
Mac only: We've been following uTorrent's path to a Mac release pretty closely recently, and today they released the first stable Mac version of the popular BitTorrent client.
With the promise of controlling your torrents from any browser, the exciting uTorrent Web project (also known as "Falcon") has upped the ante even more by customising its web interface for iPhones, with strong encryption generated from random finger sliding around the screen and a pretty slick interface for adding, stopping and starting your torrent downloads at home. The iPhone interface seems to load through the Android browser just fine, too.
A few weeks ago, we mentioned uTorrent's new, native Mac client moving to beta, sporting a new UI and all torrent-downloading features you could want from something lightweight. The project is still in beta, but officially got the 1.0 label this weekend, so it looks like we're getting closer and closer to an official release.
Windows: The popular BitTorrent client uTorrent released a beta build of uTorrent Web Beta, a no-configuration tool that allows you to remotely access and control uTorrent from any web browser.
Mac only: uTorrent, the most popular BitTorrent client on Windows, has moved from alpha to beta for OS X, boasting a completely native Mac client with a brand new interface.
