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Hi guys

Was wondering in your opinion, which is the best bit torrent program for mac. Right now I am using Transmission and it seems pretty cool, but just wondering if there are better ones out there?

Also DVD Shrink for mac, is there such a thing?
 
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DVD Shrink = MacTheRipper.
 
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Azerous (Not sure I spelled that right) always gets high reviews. I myself prefer Tomato Torrent, as well as Transmission.
 
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I use Azureus for BitTorrent as for DVD Shriking, I never do it, I just tend to watch films on my PC or Pay for them, Yea I know a novel Idea, but I believe it will catch on soon :p

Nar joking, all the DVDs I watch are my Brothers.
 
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I use Azureus for BitTorrent as for DVD Shriking, I never do it, I just tend to watch films on my PC or Pay for them, Yea I know a novel Idea, but I believe it will catch on soon :p

Nar joking, all the DVDs I watch are my Brothers.

I do normally buy DVD's, but ones that I don't perticularly like I burn and lend them to my parents. If I see a movie that I enjoy, 9 times out of 10 I will go out and actually buy it

But I see your point, it is a novel idea paying for music and movies nowdays isn't it :p
 
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Tomato fro torrents and visualhub for DVD's....or macther ripper, handbrake, toast 8 depending on what you need to do.
 
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Another vote for Transmission
 
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i use transmission too. but im also looking for alternative one because in transmission, i cant select the files that i want to download. for the pc i like utorrent because its small and have option to select the files that i want to download. i know azureus can do that but it wont work with my mac/router and was too busy to do troubleshooting.
 
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I use transmission. It's basic. I hated Azerus because of all the other crap that was in it. I want a torrent client to download torrents. I have my sources to get them from and having to navigate through azerus as opposed to opening tranmission and having it ready to go, is slightly annoying.
 
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whats wrong with regular old BitTorrent.
 
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i hear transmission, and tomato are good.

i wish there was a utorrent equivalent for macs.
 
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What about file sharing? Anything better than limewire?
I hate limewire.
 
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For individual files i like cabos.
Transmission for torrents
 
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i hear transmission, and tomato are good.

i wish there was a utorrent equivalent for macs.

I installed uTorrent via Parallel's and have had great success.
Most of the mac torrent apps are banned on alot of trackers due to reporting incorrect upload data.
 
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Azureus is slow

and not very safe.

Transmission for me on mac and utorrent on pc
 
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I installed uTorrent via Parallel's and have had great success.
Most of the mac torrent apps are banned on alot of trackers due to reporting incorrect upload data.

has anyone else done this? Feedback? How is transfering the data files to be viewed and used on leopard? I am a n00b and am not a fan of transmission.
 
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ok....im new to the old torrent stuff so go easy! Where do i get this transmission stuff? and what sites to download off? Used to steal all my stuff off a friend who was obsessed with dl but he's moved away...bummer!!TA
 
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My 2 cents worth:

Torrents = Transmission.
File Sharing = Frostwire.

DVD......... = Handbrake (to create divx)
OR
DVD.... = Mactheripper (rip full movie size)
+ then either use dvd2onex or toast/popcorn to shrink

or use Fairmount (like anydvd) and toast/popcorn/dvd2onex
 

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