You Gotta Have It Part I: µTorrent

You Gotta Have It is the first series here on TSS. This series will point out absolutely amazing programs (most of which will be freeware). The point is that you should get these. They are incredibly useful and efficient, and will definitely be a welcome addition to the rest of the stuff you have on your comp. Enjoy.

Everybody downloads stuff - it's an inevitable part of the internet. With the introduction of file sharing, the world had officially undergone a major technological step. One of the unfortunate drawbacks of sharing files between computers was that one person had to have the entire file, and while you were copying/downloading the file from your buddy's computer, if the connection was terminated or dropped or whatever, you had to do it all over again. Thus, the torrent was born. A torrent file is somewhat like a link in that it's not the actual file but how you get the file. With torrents, instead of getting the entire file from one person, the community of internet users share the burden together by having everyone give a small piece of the file to the downloader until the downloader has the entire file. It's a much faster, more efficient way of sharing information.

µTorrent is a lightweight bitTorrent client that allows you to download torrents (obviously). µTorrent is absolutely worth being the first post in a series of things that you simply have to have - it's a small, portable, executable file (it ends in ".exe"), and has everything you need in a torrent client (that's nothing. There are lots of others that are large and ineffective). To download it, click here or the picture.

Just to be fair, there are plenty of other bitTorrent clients. We just think that µTorrent is the best.

Until next time
-TSO