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Littleshoot updates browser plugin, now supports torrents

Back in December 2008, Brad wrote about Littleshoot, a browser-based peer-to-peer application created by the developers of Limewire. A little over two months later, and the .90 beta release has seen several updates and the addition of one major feature: the ability to download .torrent files.

Install the Littleshoot plugin, visit any torrent site, and click on a torrent file and a new tab like the one pictured above will open in your browser. While savvy p2p-ers probably won't prefer Littleshoot to their current torrent manager, it's an excellent option for less experienced users (like the ones you provide with free troubleshooting).

Littleshoot also makes it easy to share what you're downloading on social sites, with quick links to popular ones like Twitter, Facebook, and Digg.

And don't forget, Littleshoot is also a great way to search Flickr and YouTube - you know, in case you want to check out some interesting photos or videos while your downloads finish.

The memory footprint has been reduced, at least on the Littleshoot plugin itself - it's currently using about 60mb on my Vista x64 machine, which isn't out of line with other combination Gnutella/torrent applications. Firefox, however, seems to be having some trouble coping: its ram usage is up to about 430mb.

[via TorrentFreak]

Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, P2P, Web

LittleShoot is LimeWire for your browser, and then some

LittleShoot
LittleShoot is a new peer to peer application from the makers of LimeWire. But unlike LimeWire and most other P2P file sharing applications, LittleShoot is browser-based. You can search for audio or video files, images, documents, or applications in your browser. And using the built in media player, you can even stream audio and video from the LittleShoot application without waiting for downloads to complete.

You do need to install a 22MB browser plugin, and LittleShoot does eat a fair amount of RAM (over 100MB during my testing). But there are a few advantages to a browser based P2P application. First, you can search LimeWire, LittleShoot, and other sources including YouTube Flickr from a single search box. And second, if you have a web browser open most of the time anyway, it's nice to be able to search for files without launching a separate application.

Because LittleShoot uses peer to peer technology, files are downloaded from multiple computers at once. And the service tries to optimize your download speed by prioritizing sources that are geographically closest to you and sources that are using the same ISP as you.

You can also "publish" files on your desktop to the Little Shoot network with just a few clicks. Just select any files on your computer that you want to share and other users will be able to start streaming or downloading them right from your computer. Once a few other users have the files on their computers they'll share the burden of serving the files to other users who want to download them.

[via Mashable]

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