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DLS 101: 6 free programs for casual users that download torrents
There are plenty of other programs you can use that come with torrent downloading abilities baked right in. Here are six options I've recommended to my friends. If you have some other options to share, leave them in the comments!
Use your web browser: Opera and Wyzo (pictured above) - What better place to get support for torrents than in your web browser? WIth Opera and Wyzo (which is based on Firefox) torrents are handled just like any other download. Click a torrent, and the download manager kicks in the same as it would if you downloaded an image, document, .zip file, or whatever.
Use your file sharing program: Limewire and Frostwire - Many of you are already using one of these programs to download music, but they can also handle your torrent downloads. The newest version of Limewire features much-improved torrent support (thanks to the LibTorrent project). Frostwire is built on Limewire's foundation, and provides the same functionality. One key difference is that Frostwire won't ask you to upgrade to the pro version, because there isn't one.
Use a download manager: Free Download Manager and FlashGet - FDL does tons of great things that you'll appreciate. It can accelerate and resume your downloads, grab Flash videos from sites like YouTube, easily upload files to share with your friends, and tell you what the community thinks about the files you download. FlashGet also does download acceleration and resuming, and it adds some handy download organization features. And, of course, they both support torrents!
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shibathedog said 2:03AM on 7-09-2009
How can you still recommend Limewire/Gnutella to anyone? Not only are you asking to get caught but even if you do use it only for legal purposes it's probably the best place on the net to find a virus. I would recommend you only use it if you are an advanced user because otherwise you aren't going to know how to avoid that stuff. Not that any advanced users want to bother anyway because there are so many fake files it's just frustrating.
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Larry said 2:29PM on 7-08-2009
This is good for Windows users, but what about those of us on Linux??
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fiendsan said 5:42PM on 7-08-2009
not too sure about flashget, its known for its use of how should i put it "devious add-ons" and to this day it still does a lot of things covertly and not so user-friendly, so your recommendation of flashget is with a big grain of salt, did you even installed the latest version? or tried any of the latest, i'm not too sure you did, cause otherwise you would recommend something else...
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