Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, P2P, Browsers
Firetorrent adds Opera-like torrent downloading to Firefox
The good: for less technical users, there's nothing to configure. Simply install the addon and when you click on a .torrent link the file is sent to Firefox's built-in download manager. You don't need to install a dedicated program (like Azureus, BitComet, uTorrent, etc.) to handle your torrents and speeds are good (nearly on par with uTorrent) and uploading is capped at 10kB/s.
The bad: for power users, there's nothing to configure. I don't like being a total leech, so I'd like to be able to tweak the upload speed. I'd also like to know whether or not I'm still seeding once the download completes, and right now I can't. My completed CrunchBang isos look as inactive as any completed Firefox downloads.
I also had a bit of trouble getting FireTorrent to work on a few machines. It would install without issue, but Firefox still didn't know what to do with a torrent when I clicked it.
FireTorrent is still in Alpha testing, so hopefull the bugs will get worked out as it nears a final release. It should be an excellent addon for users that want the simplest possible way to download torrent files.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Kevin said 5:49PM on 1-20-2009
anyone get it working yet? I had it working but now it has stopped functioning...
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