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Old 04-10-2009, 05:50 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Hi all, ive had my unibody macbook for about a week now having used windows for 12+ years and i am in need of WinRar or a similar app, a link would be really good. Also i D/L torrents alot can any recommend a good torrent downloader, again a link would be really helpful. Thanks in advance.
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Old 04-10-2009, 06:18 PM   #2 (permalink)
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unrarx for the rar's
UnRarX - Mac OS X RAR Extraction Utility
transmission for the torrents the most lightweight client i know of and pretty feature rich also
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For Rar, you might want to look into SimplyRAR. I recommended it to someone else and they enjoyed it.

Transmission will be a popular response for torrents. There is also a uTorrent beta and Vuze.
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Old 04-10-2009, 11:22 PM   #5 (permalink)
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UnRarX.app
Transmission.app

gotta agree those are great... simple and powerful
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transmission seems pretty good so going to stick with that for a bit, thanks for all the suggestions. this forum will be very useful to me
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Transmission is great, but as far as decompressing RAR archives, I prefer The Unarchiver.
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