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How to Download utorrent and utorrent Basics

DSP — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:10:19 +0000

uTorrent a Powerful Bittorrent Client to download the files today

I was using Bitcomet for a long time but I do not like the new versions as they are getting more commercial and blocking the speed of the download purposefully (I guess so)

So compared to any other Bittorrent client utorrent is one of the best

Features of uTorrent

uTorrent is lightweight
uTorrent does not consume too much resources of your computer like Limewire
More options than other Bit Torrent client

You all know what is BitTorrent if you do not know you can read it in Wikipedia torrent page

So you have found a website to download music, movies, audio, software or games or anything interests you. The next step is to download the torrent to your computer.

Then download uTorrent or anything of your choice

Open uTorrent and you will see the following interface

Utorrent General View (click to enlarge Image)

Open the downloaded file

I have downloaded a torrent file to download Firefox 3.0 (This is legal because you can share Firefox)

Open the file and see the description below inside the image

Open Torrent File (Click to enlarge)

First choose the location you want to download the file

Give it a label, now we are downloading only one file but soon or later you will have 100′s of the files queued in Utorrent, It will be hard for you to find the ones you are looking for if you have no lable. Give it labels like “Browser”

The other settings are default setting that you do not need to touch

If you want the file download to start later uncheck “Start Torrent”

Sometime your download bunch will have more than 2 files, if you do not want to download all the files just uncheck the file list

If you go to advanced Tab you will see the Image as below

Setting torrent Properties

This is also called torrent properties setting

The websites are the ones that has the trackers (to make it easy to understand – the websites see how many people are sharing (Seeding) the file, how many are downloading etc. The more trackers you have, the more speed you get to download the file

If you do not any just leave everything to default

You can set the internet speed for each torrent file you download, so your normal work does not get affected

If you click on the advanced tab on top you will get the window as shown below

Torrent advanced settings

You can automatically run specific programs when the download completes such as Media Player or Document viewer etc..

Then click OK to start the download

Details of uTorrents

Utorrent General View and Description (CLICK TO ENLARGE THE IMAGE)

The rest is very much self explanatory

Seeders: Seeders are the ones that have the full file in their computer

Peers or Leechers are the one that download the files from the seeders

Once you finish the download, you computer will automatically upload the files to some Leechers, You will be a seeder then

You can stop uploading the files by clicking on the stop button at the top

You can pause a download and start it again

You can close the application and start the download later

You can shutdown your computer and then start the application to download the paused download. You will not loose any downloaded portion of it. This is Good right?

More screen shots to help you know more about utorrent

utorrent Peers List

When you click on the Peers Tab, you can see all the people who is seeding and downloading the file

uTorrent Files list

Again Here you can select which file to download pause or stop by rght clicking on the file name

You can see the progress of the each file

uTorrent Speed Optimization

I have not done this much, I always leave it to default

uTorrent Preference Window

So you can set the preference here

This is very important and very useful to enjoy th complete benefit of uTorrent

If you want any advanced help, you can visit their website forum

You can Download uTorrent Free here

If you have any questions or suggestion, please post a comment

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Download Limewire and Limewire Basics

DSP — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:08:34 +0000

Limewire is a great tool to download and share files.

You can find Movies, Audio, Video, Music, Books, Documents, Software and many more.

Here is how it looks like

Limewire Default look

Limewire has free and pro versions.

I use Pro version and the free version is similar to the pro with few added features.

Lets find some audio file using Limewire

Open Lime wire and Click
Enter “Think and grow Rich” in the search parameter

Limewire search parameter

Wait till the top header turns in to green, i.e., wait for the search to complete
Find the availability by the number of seeders or sharers
Choose the maximum number with the appropriate title and click download
This will download the file into your� computer
You will require the someone to share files for you, this can be an unknown individual from any location, all you need is a person who has the file should switch on Limewire

Limewire file download

This is more secure program to download the files for free
You can click the Video Tab to download movies or music videos
To download Documents, Images, Software or all types of files by choosing the left control panel
Lime wire also has the library to maintain the documents that you download

Limewire Library

Limewire also comes with the Media player to play the audio that you have downloaded

Limewire Media player

You can browse the downloaded files from the bottom section
There are more options available to tune the download speed by changing the settings
This will by default take all your internet connection speed to download the files you have selected, So change the settings or download when the internet connection is free

You can download Limewire free here

You can use Limewire to download torrents files also

If you have any suggestions or questions, please post a comment

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How to download Movies / Film from Internet for free?

DSP — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:09:05 +0000

Download movies from any country and any language

It is very easy to download movies from Internet. There are number of ways to do it. Some are illegal and some are not. These are done under the basis of sharing.

The following are the popular methods of downloading a movie from internet.

Download Movies using Torrent
Download movies using the forum
Download movies from Lime wire
Download movies from website like Rapid share

I am from India and for a long time I wondered how to download movies, then I finally found out how to do it. The most popular method is through Torrents.

I have another post in this title, you can read how to install the torrents an use it. (Note: I do not encourage you to download any illegal content from websites, this is a tech blog to help people acquire knowledge)

Use Google and find out the best websites that list the movie torrent

For English Movies

Mininova.org
Demonoid.com
Piratebay.org

These 3 sites will serve the purpose, you do not need to look any further. They have limited advertisement and there is limited malware and other crappy stuffs.

You can use these sites to download many things other than movies also, such as Audio books, Games, E-books, TV shows, Software, etc…

But use it with caution, most of these are illegal

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