Bit Che - Software for Torrent Searching

April 07, 08 by sharky   1,514  views  

Rarely does a piece of Torrent Search software make our headlines and qualify as newsworthy, let alone worth writing about. However, Bit Che is not your run-of-the-mill torrent search software.

So what separates Bit Che from the rest of the pack? For starters, it allows for private BitTorrent site searching (provided you have accounts to them). This is a monumental step forward in torrent searching development. Bit Che is also a great tool for:

Searching for hard-to-find torrents - In contrast to torrent meta search websites (that usually limit the querying to the top 10 public sites), Bit Che software implements many more sites in the search, with the ability to add others, and even add your own (for unlimited torrent searching).

Filtering of popular torrents - Torrent data is shown in the results, giving users the ability to quickly gauge what torrents are likely the best sources for a popular release.

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Find Open Private Trackers with ‘Open Registrations Checker’

March 14, 08 by sharky   2,768  views  

Unless you were born last night, we probably don’t have to tell you that elite private BitTorrent websites occasionally offer new unannounced signups, usually to replace or “trim” inactive accounts or kicked users. Aside from a few lucky ones that happen to be there at the right time, there’s no sure way of knowing when new accounts are going to be announced. That is, until now.

Torrent Open Registrations Checker from TeamRoots is a brand-new tool to find private BitTorrent sites that are accepting new signups. It’s like Tracker Checker 2 on steroids and speed at the same time. Requires Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 or higher.

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Open-Search BitTorrent plugins for Firefox & Explorer

January 09, 08 by admin   713  views  

Adding BitTorrent Websites to the Search bar.

Open Search plugins can speed up the process of searching for torrents without having to actually visit the Bittorrent websites first in order to do the torrent searching. Simply put, these are little additions to the search bar services that can be selected from within the browser. For example, you can add Mininova.org or BTJunkie.org to your list of available search criteria in your browser, and select them from the dropdown menu when entering a search string.

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Getting Started with BitTorrent

November 04, 07 by admin   642  views  

To use BitTorrent, users require just two things: BitTorrent client software and torrent websites to download the torrents.

BitTorrent Client Programs

There are many BitTorrent clients available, however; we favor µtorrent, BitComet and Azureus because they constantly evolve to increase speeds and combat mechanisms commonly used by ISPs to thwart the P2P/BitTorrent community. There’s also a good page on Wikipedia here that covers all the BitTorrent clients, as well.

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