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News BitTorrent: now available for iPhone

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by CardJoe, 4 Mar 2008.

  1. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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    CardJoe, 4 Mar 2008
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  2. Jamie

    Jamie ex-Bit-Tech code junkie

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    This doesn't surprise me, I'm sure almost any linux command line applications will work on the iPhone with a bit of hacking.
     
    Jamie, 4 Mar 2008
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  3. cjoyce1980

    cjoyce1980 What's a Dremel?

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    If you want a greener way of downloading then watts per hour is gonna be a whole lot less then using your pc, but novel still
     
    cjoyce1980, 4 Mar 2008
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  4. Xir

    Xir Modder

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    Hmmm, quite useless at the moment...but:

    For me the next thing isn't "web2.0", i don't want to share my pictures and diary with the world, thank you.
    For me the next big thing is "Internet Anywhere".

    Once you get a flatrate and acceptable speed out of your mobile devive (beeing an Iphone or whatever else), could you not save your home line?

    Same thing happened to the phone, mobile calling has gotten so cheap, you don't need a landline anymore (except for internet)

    Xir
     
    Xir, 4 Mar 2008
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  5. cyrilthefish

    cyrilthefish What's a Dremel?

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  6. koola

    koola Minimodder

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    It's good what this guy has done, but better is using Clutch through Safari to manage your torrents.
     
    koola, 4 Mar 2008
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  7. rjkoneill

    rjkoneill What's a Dremel?

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    phone call
    angry wife - WHERE ARE YOU YOU HAVE BEEN MISSING FOR TWO DAYS
    me - i have been waiting outside starbucks for 48hrs for this film to finish download
     
    rjkoneill, 4 Mar 2008
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  8. Firehed

    Firehed Why not? I own a domain to match.

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    Sure, but that doesn't stop it being pointless.

    As koola points out, WebUIs to existing torrent programs are a much better and more practical thing to do. But then again, a lot of the Linux-lovers do things like this just to say they did :)
     
    Firehed, 4 Mar 2008
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  9. bahgger

    bahgger Minimodder

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    "Your recently downloaded file has taken up 12.5% of your total diskspace. More memory required. What would you like to do?"
     
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  10. rhuitron

    rhuitron Bump? What Bump?

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    ^ It's an apple. So you're fu-du-cked!

    And more over, this seems very useless to me.

    Rather I use my laptop and Wifi signal than an Iphone.

    BTW, I hate apple.
     
    rhuitron, 5 Mar 2008
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  11. Bluephoenix

    Bluephoenix Spoon? What spoon?

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    one thing where it does become practical is in being used to push smaller files (media especially) to mobiles, as long as there are some dedicated seeding servers.

    the more people get that file, the faster the download becomes.
     
    Bluephoenix, 5 Mar 2008
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