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µTorrent - a Tiny BitTorrent Client
by Jason Clarke Sep 23rd 2005 at 7:00AM
µTorrent is a really small Windows BitTorrent client that does what it does very well. There are not a lot of fancy bells and whistles, but for an 82 kb executable that when running consumes less than 2 MB of RAM, you get a lot in that small package. Although RSS is not a feature in µTorrent, it does have the ability to throttle itself based on times of the day, and uses a very intuitive user interface to do so. In fact, the user interface in µTorrent is very clean throughout. Good things do indeed come in small packages.
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jean-christophe said 5:58PM on 9-25-2005
The downloadsquad.com/rss.xml doesn't validate because of the micro entity present in this news.
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Zelidar said 5:14AM on 9-26-2005
Thanks Jason, for giving the word out and encouraging simple and small applications. Torrent runs like a charm and has now found a home on my hard disk.
It reminds me the "good" old days of assembler programming where one measured features in terms of bytes used, unlike today's KB and MB.
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Richard Lawler said 10:44PM on 10-15-2005
UTORRENT IS A POWERFUL MOVEMENT.
^^^^^NEVER LIES
^^^^^I REALLY MEAN IT
I just loaded 100-odd torrents into it, it took forever checking the files one at a time, but it never used more than 14mb of memory, and actually only used 2-5 mb most of the time. this is my new default torrent client.
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