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Jay's Favorite Mac Apps: Transmission
by Jay Hathaway Oct 14th 2008 at 10:00AM
Transmission's not bare-bones in terms of features -- you can fine-tune your upload and download speeds, change ports, and check your ratio -- but its design is minimal and not too distracting. I don't want a busy-looking torrent app, I want one that I can set up quickly and leave alone until my downloads finish. Transmission provides that, while still letting advanced users get under the hood where they need to. It's also free and open source! That's why it's one of my favorite Mac apps.
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Josh said 10:41AM on 10-14-2008
Transmission is one of my top apps for any system. Only one I think I would put above it would be Growl or Taskbar Switcher.
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 11:12AM on 10-14-2008
Agreed. Transmission rocks. I've seen it get progressively better and wound up ditching an entire PC because I no longer needed the bt client on it b/c Transmission runs great on my G4 mini.
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Erik said 10:59AM on 10-14-2008
Transmission is definitely a favorite of mine. It's the default bittorrent client on Ubuntu, by the way...
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whiskey said 11:10AM on 10-14-2008
Yeah... Why not add the Linux tag to this post?
Transmission is great, unobtrusive, light and, may I say so, awesome!
Jay Hathaway said 11:12AM on 10-14-2008
Linux tag added! I only use Linux (Ubuntu!) on Parallels, so I hadn't looked into BT clients for it. Great to know Transmission is available there too.
Brian said 5:20PM on 10-14-2008
Agreed, it's an awesome app!
A killer feature worth mentioning - the Web UI. It's as slick as the app UI but available over the local network - so you can check in on those long downloads from a phone/handheld/laptop or run a headless upload server to provide large content files. Great for a small business to cheaply distribute their software!
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Taylor said 6:29PM on 10-14-2008
Those with windows feeling left out:
use uTorrent. It's super small and also rocks, i abandoned bitcomet for uTorrent a long time ago.
-Taylor
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Jash Sayani said 12:06PM on 10-15-2008
Switched to Transmission from BitRocket after the new Transmission had Remote control feature via HTTP....
Its an amazing feature.... I control my downloads from my iPhone....
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laero said 8:12AM on 10-21-2008
Agree, Transmission is the best app for torrents out there. But I think the post is a bit misinforming because it does not point out that transmission is available for both OSX and Linux, making it sound like a mac-only application.
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