Okay folks. Here I am back again with the continuation of the Torrents post. I was supposed to finish this off yesterday but got too lazy and sleepy (as usual). Getting back in my last post I explained what a torrent is, their advantages and disadvantages and how to be secure when using torrents. Let me talk about how to use torrents in this post.
So how to use torrents? First you should have a BitTorrent client such as µTorrent. This software will act as a download manager managing the torrent download. Then you should download the .torrent file which will contain the information regarding your main download (where to download the .torrent file). Once you have downloaded the file open it using the BitTorrent client (just double click the .torrent file and it will open in the program) and presto! you don't have anything more to do. There on whenever the BitTorrent client is running it will keep downloading the file for you. You can pause or resume or stop the download according to your needs through the client and if you want multiple torrent files can be added to download simultaneously and the BitTorrent client will take care of them without any problems.
Some available BitTorrent clients are
Some available BitTorrent clients are
I personally use µTorrent as it is very light weight and very much bug free. I had used Azureus before but it has some other functionality other than just torrent management thus making the program a bit heavy on the memory usage.
Then we need the torrent. But where to find a good torrent and how to search for a torrent we need? There these sites would come into play.
In-spite of all these sites being promoted isoHunt is my favorite. Once you go to the site you will know why it is. It is very well organized and most of the torrents are being uploaded to the site by users. Whatever the download you want, let it be a movie, song, book, game or software you are sure to find it there. Best of all is it's comment section for each torrent (you can click on the small green or red colored numbers at the end of a torrent file name, green being good feedback and red being bad) where the users would give a full description on the quality of the torrent and give a rating of their own so you can decide quite easily.
Other two sites are also kind of like the same (thepiratebay being very famous and also having a lot of torrents, but due to legal scandals it's sometimes down and mininova is now just allowing shared content on its site) but the torrentz site is different. It's actually like the Google of torrents. What you can do is go to that site and search for the torrent name you want there and once you have done so it will give you a list of torrents matching your search. When you select the file you want it will display a number of sites (like thepiratebay or mininova) from where you can pick one and then download the torrent from there. This is very useful in finding files which are very old or hard to find.
Just don't be quick in downloading a file but go through the comments and if any samples are available fist download the samples and check and always if you feel the torrent is not good no matter what the comments say then don't download because it is all at your own risk. That's all for now folks. Hope you get the hang of it and that this gave you some sort of an explanation rather than another headache. Leave comments if you need help and I will get back to them. Me out. Have a good day.
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