Creating New Torrent

Hello everyone, you have till now only downloaded torrents. Today I am going to tell how to create a basic torrent using bittorrent or utorrent. Steps to create a torrent are-

     1. Go to 'File' menu of your torrent client (works in most clients).
    
     2. Click on 'Create New Torrent'.

     3. In 'Select Source', specify the location of the file for which you are creating a torrent.

     4. Leave 'Trackers' It will be discussed in the next post.

     5. Leave 'Web Seeds' for now. I will discuss them too in a separate post.

     6. Put any 'Comment' if you want to.

     7. Leave the 'Piece Size' to 'auto detect'.

     8. Tick 'Private Torrent' checkbox if you don't want it public.

     9. Click 'Create and save as'

     10. Specify the location.

     11. Click on 'Save' in the dialog box.

That's it. Now you have created a basic UNDOWNLOADABLE torrent (undownloadable means that till any seed is attached it cannot be downloaded). To make it downloadable (without any manual seeding), you need web seeds which I will discuss in the next post.

Increase download speed

After some research, I found that Cheat Engine only increases the download speed visually. That is, it only increases the speed you see in the torrent client, but in reality the speed is the same as before. Here are two softwares which increase your torrent download speed IN REALITY.

 

    1. Bittorrent Turbo Accelerator

This software from webspeeders is the version for bittorrent client. It is extremely useful and easy to use. The only thing you have to set is your network interface. It can be downloaded as the Lite version for speeding up 7 downloads, or can be bought from webspeeders.

 

 

    2.  µtorrent Turbo Accelerator

This software also from webspeeders is the µtorrent version. Like its brother, it is also extremely useful and easy to use. The layout is almost same as bittorrent turbo accelerator. It can be downloaded as lite version from webspeeders or can be bought from the same. 

 

These two softwares can rock your downloads. Enjoy using them.

Protecting your Privacy

Dear Torrent users, you might not know that, when you browse your IP address is being read by the website being accessed.. There is no harm in that. But what if websites track you and your search results with the help of the IP address (EG. www.google.com.)? Same goes to torrent. Some websites track the torrents you download and your searches without you even knowing. Here are two softwares that will protect you from trackers-

 

• BT Guard

 

Here is a software that protects your privacy. It does it by giving you a new IP address while surfing. Even your Internet Service Provider will not know what you are doing! It even makes your normal Internet Connection private.

 

Characteristics-

 

     1. Simple download and install

  

     2. No records of usage stored

 

     3. 256-bit AES encryption

     4. Unlimited download speeds

     5. VPN includes OpenVPN & PPTP




Bittorrent Proxy costs Rs. 385.6902 ($ 6.95) while VPN {Internet Privacy} costs Rs. 552.1752
($ 9.95).

Buy From: www.btguard.com
 

• Privacy Safeguard

Privacy safeguard is a software which is 'recommended' by utorrent or bittorrent. It guards us against about 300,000 IPs that steal and sell our information. It can be installed with utorrent or bittorrent, otherwise it can be downloaded from http://www.privacysafeguard.com/ as an addon for chrome.

 

 

Top 5 apps for Bittorrent or utorrent

Do you know that Bittorrent or utorrent have downloadable apps that can make your torrent downloads much easier? Here is a description of all of them with instructions at the top.

Instructions

Before clicking on “Install” you can choose to view the description of the app by clicking on the app icon. This will open a new window with the description of the app.

Once you start installing the app, it will download and install automatically.

To launch the app simply click on it in the sidebar. Some apps may require additional permissions before they launch (e.g. uBrowse, uMap and VLC).

1. TED

This app simplifies the process of downloading and viewing TED videos on your computer. All you have to do is launch the app and select the video you would like to “Download“.

The video you have chosen will immediately start downloading on μTorrent.

2. uBrowse

uBrowse is a simple app that displays a list of all your downloaded torrent files.

The app is useful as it provides a simple list of all your torrents and all the files within the torrents as well. You are able to launch all these files by clicking on “Open“. Alternatively, you can browse the location of the torrent by clicking on “Show“.

This app ensures that you do not have to waste time hunting for a particular torrent you have downloaded earlier

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3. uMap

uMap is a novel app that allows you to view where the peers (seeders and leechers) of the torrents you are downloading are located.

Once launched, you can view all the peers on a world map. You can organise the map to display the peers by Client, Swarm, or Country.

4. Virus Guard

Virus Guard is an essential app for every μTorrent user. Instead of having your computer’s antivirus scan each and every file, you can simply use Virus Guard (powered by bitdefender) to scan the individual torrent file downloaded. Virus Guard even allows you to scan within ZIP, RAR and TAR archives.

When you first run Virus Guard it will update its virus definitions file. After the definitions have been updated all the torrents you are downloading will immediately be scanned. In the future you can choose to scan all your torrents or simply scan an individual torrent by selecting it and clicking on the Virus Guard icon in the main toolbar.

I would also recommend you select “Start Virus Guard when μTorrent starts“, since download torrents can be dangerous as they may be laden with malware.

5. VLC

VLC is the standard media program that every computer user must have. It is no different on μTorrent, where we recommend you install the VLC app to view your downloaded media.

The app displays all your downloaded audio and video files in a simple list. You can launch and play any of the files by simply clicking on them and hitting “Play“.

Bittorrent users will download it here (www.bittorrent.com/get-started/apps) and utorrent users will download it here (www.utorrent.com/get-started/apps)

Hope that helped. Thank you!

A Safer Plan

It's been a while using Torrentz, and, well, getting viruses. After looking around for a while I have got a result: Torrentz, that is, which will help you a lot if you are using SiteAdvisor. You must be thinking "First he says it is not safe, and then he says it is safe? What nonsense!" But this Torrentz is Indian and is a lot more safer.

Torrentz.in

Tested by SiteAdvisor, this site is a lot more safer than torrentz.eu. Even some of its direct downloads are safe (this does not mean you can use all direct downloads!). 

Comparisn

• Torrentz.eu  is not as safe. Almost all of it's direct downloads are not safe. Through it is very popular, it has to consult torrentz.in when we search something.

• Torrentz.in is very safe. Almost all of it's direct downloads are safe. Through it is not so popular, it is consulted by torrentz.eu

Now you know what is safe. It is up to you to choose which website you want to use.

Powering up

Hello Everyone, it has been a while using Bit-torrent or utorrent. Now it's time to move to Bit-torrent+ or utorrent+.

• Bittorrent Plus

BitTorrent Plus is one of the best torrent files downloading software tools in the internet today. It comes with inbuilt anti-virus protection software that helps to protect your computer from any malicious programs that might be downloaded from the internet. This is one of the most versatile pieces of software to use today. It comes with a plethora of features. The interface is much easier to use. You can browse through various websites effectively on one window without necessarily having to open up many browser tabs. It also comes with a High Definition Media Player that enables to get any codecs that you want so as to enjoy your music much better.

Buy from  www.bittorrent.com

• Utorrent Plus

 

Remotely downloaded content adds capabilities to uTorrent Remote, the web-based control panel of the software. It allows uTorrent Plus users in particular to download files remotely from the web interface. Users can log in from any computer to transfer files to that computer right from the client running uTorrent.The convertor adds device specific conversions to uTorrent. The idea is simple. You add your mobile and external devices, like your smartphone, gaming console or hardware media player to the list of devices in uTorrent. You can then use uTorrent to transfer optimized contents to those devices.The features that uTorrent Plus offers can make the life of uTorrent users more comfortable. Especially the ability to convert media before it is transferred to external devices from inside the software, and the ability to download uTorrent files remotely are noteworthy.The antivirus protection on the other hand and the HD media player are additions that may not be necessary for the majority of users. It does not really make sense to use a built-in antivirus solution if system wide antivirus protection is running on the system. I personally like some of the features provided by uTorrent Plus, and do not have issues with the commercial version as long as it is not limiting the free version in any way.

Buy from www.utorrent.com