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7 Multi-Site Torrent Search Tools For the Swarthy Downloader

So, it's torrent booty ye be after? Well, matey, I'll be happy to share a list of me favorite places to find forbidden treasures.

Millions of torrents, thousands of places to look for them...What's a wayfarin' buccaneer to do? Why, search a whole pile of places at the same time, of course. After all, you're more likely to find gold with seven maps to the same pot than you are with just one.

Enough of the played-out pirate jargon already, on to the sites!

Simultaneous Searching

NowTorrents. Searches up to twelve sites at once. I like the file type tabs and health indicator, and they offer a Firefox and IE compatible search plugin.

uSniff. I wrote about uSniff before, and I use it quite often. I don't really search a lot of different sites, usually just Pirate Bay and IsoHunt, and they're both supported (along with six others). The interface is clean and responds quickly - the search box throws some people off, though. I don't understand why, it's giant, orange, and says "search" on it. They also have a search plugin for IE and Firefox.

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Filed under: P2P

Download Like a Pirate Day

Watch carefully.. I'm about to talk like a pirate.

Arrh. Avast. Shiver me.. oh forget it.

It's officially "Talk Like a Pirate Day" the world over. Talking like a pirate is kinda lame. It's been done. It's so 2004. Since we've had it up to here with co-workers and their clever attempts to recreate a pirate past that never was a cute or cuddly as the fantasy pirates of today, we decided to go a different direction.

Welcome to Download Squad's "Download Like a Pirate Day". It's just like that other day except, well, lot's and lots better. We'll keep you fat and happy throughout the day with ways to download your fill, even ways to feel like a pirate without breaking any copyrights.

Check out some of our recent posts on burning up your bandwidth and watch throughout the day for more great ideas to keep you downloading like a pirate.

Filed under: Internet, P2P

YouTorrent - Torrent searches get stylish

YouTorrentIf you've been making a list of all the web sites that start with the word "You" that have popped up in the last year, today's your lucky day. The latest addition to the You-sphere is called YouTorrent and it has to do with searching torrents.

On the surface, there is nothing new. YouTorrent appears to be just another search engine for torrents that combines a number of trackers and engines, then displays their results in an easy to digest format. In fact, other than a sharp and clean look, YouTorrent does not seem to be much of an innovator, and maybe even a little on the slow side in terms of displaying search results.

However, it's not exactly what is available now but what is going to become available in the future that makes YouTorrent an interesting engine to watch in the coming months. Promised are Boolean searches, additional engines, as well as customization options for those engines.

But even without those additional features, YouTorrent is a good looking and functional search engine for torrents. Just remember what your mother always said: torrent responsibly.

[via CyberNet]

Filed under: Utilities, P2P

Torrent tools for the masses

Just when you thought there were enough BitTorrent apps to serve and fetch your download needs for life, Mashable puts together an enormous list of 50+ torrent tools and legit sites to confuse you even more.

Your favorites are all there, Azeurus, uTorrent, and all the rest. Also among them are neat-o picks like WizBit -- for S60 smartphones.. who needs BitTorrent on a smartphone? --, and Burst -- a torrent client that even runs on Windows 98.

We'll remind you once again, torrent responsibly and don't go breaking anyones copyright.

Filed under: Fun, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Web services, Google, Freeware, P2P

DiggTorrents - torrent search using Google power

DiggTorrentsAlthough DiggTorrents is a useful service, their proclivity for using other companies' trademarks is a little bit distasteful. Originally named GoogleTorrents, which is in fact a more accurate name, DiggTorrents uses the recently released Google Co-op Custom Search Engine to search a select set of sites for torrent links. In my brief testing, it appears to work particularly well.

I noticed in the FAQ that it says you may not be able to get any search results if you're running the AdBlock or AdBlock Plus Firefox Add-Ons. I'm running AdBlock Plus, and didn't notice any issues. Athough it's not clear what happened to the GoogleTorrents.com domain, the owner of the site reports that he sold the domain with the understanding of having traffic from it forwarded to diggtorrents.com. I'd assume Google bought the domain simply to keep it off the market, but that's pure conjecture.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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