While Stumbling at my many god-awful hours of that night, I came across a curious tool. Bitlet. Bitlet is a torrent client minus the client! More accurately it is a torrent client that requires you to download nothing beyond the latest
JRE. You should already have it if you have ever used the internet, if you don't, well here's your oppurtunity. So I'm trying to integrate Chrome into all aspects of my browsing experience except for the obvious lack of a stumble browser. JEEZ! So I know I have java but I get a message that informs me that, "This browser does not have a Java Plugin." And I am directed where to get my Plug-in. It almost seems as if I wasn't supposed to have the java plug-in which at the time of writing is shown to be Java(TM) Platform SE6 U10 Beta. Ok so far I am still unable to install the plugin so I am going to open up Shiretoko(Firefox 3 Alpha) and give it a whirl there. Now I have it up and running in firefox. All I needed to do was type or paste the URL of the .torrent file and select download torrent. it will work for a few seconds and pop up with a window asking you where you want the file to be downloaded to. If you have to close your browser before the download is finished you can effectively pause it. When you restart your browser just do what you did to load the torrent originally, then make sure the original save location is selected. It will quickly verify the files(s) then resume the download. I seem to be getting much better download speeds than when I use Utorrent. 185k - 250k average compared with barely 150 on utorrent. Maybe It's my settings, whatever. Seeds to peers 15 to 0 So maybe theres one really nice guy lol. There are only two settings, maximum upload rate and incoming connection port. There is a plug-in available for both Firefox and IE that "..should let you inject a direct 'download by bitlet' link in many torrent search engines." Hearing the word inject when I am trying a new web-based app and a file-sharing app no less is not conforting.
JRE. You should already have it if you have ever used the internet, if you don't, well here's your oppurtunity. So I'm trying to integrate Chrome into all aspects of my browsing experience except for the obvious lack of a stumble browser. JEEZ! So I know I have java but I get a message that informs me that, "This browser does not have a Java Plugin." And I am directed where to get my Plug-in. It almost seems as if I wasn't supposed to have the java plug-in which at the time of writing is shown to be Java(TM) Platform SE6 U10 Beta. Ok so far I am still unable to install the plugin so I am going to open up Shiretoko(Firefox 3 Alpha) and give it a whirl there. Now I have it up and running in firefox. All I needed to do was type or paste the URL of the .torrent file and select download torrent. it will work for a few seconds and pop up with a window asking you where you want the file to be downloaded to. If you have to close your browser before the download is finished you can effectively pause it. When you restart your browser just do what you did to load the torrent originally, then make sure the original save location is selected. It will quickly verify the files(s) then resume the download. I seem to be getting much better download speeds than when I use Utorrent. 185k - 250k average compared with barely 150 on utorrent. Maybe It's my settings, whatever. Seeds to peers 15 to 0 So maybe theres one really nice guy lol. There are only two settings, maximum upload rate and incoming connection port. There is a plug-in available for both Firefox and IE that "..should let you inject a direct 'download by bitlet' link in many torrent search engines." Hearing the word inject when I am trying a new web-based app and a file-sharing app no less is not conforting.
Ok I am extremely impressed with the functionality of this app. An idiot can operate it. There are few enough settings (2!?) so that no one can break it. Nice, efficient and as barebones as you can get, sorry utorrent, but Bitlet's got the stones. I will however stick to utorrent as I download more than I would want to have tiny windows floating around my monitor :)
Aaron
