µTorrent 3.0 Beta Released

Finally, the long-awaited beta build of µTorrent 3.0 is released. The client comes packed with lots of new features and updates, among which there are ratings, speed streaming, and even portability options, which means that the client would create the best user experience ever.

BitTorrent Inc. recently announced the release of the 3.0 beta version of the client, and its new updates will please a lot of users who were waiting long for secure remote access, ratings, sharing content by drops, quicker streaming, simplified interface and even a portable mode working off a removable drive (USB).

One of the new features – torrent ratings – will allow you to rate and comment on downloads right from the client, which enhances community sense within µTorrent. Another one, called “drop files to send” will let µTorrent users to share files with the others with the drag&drop of the mouse, even if the recipients are not BitTorrent users. It works by creating a link with a personalized message through which the other party can download the files even if they don’t have µTorrent installed.

More features of the beta build of µTorrent 3 include the streaming enhancements. Now the client will enable users to watch the pieces of downloaded video files much faster due to some progressive sequential download methods. Many would love this feature as it could help the users decide if they want to finish downloading films like the highly discussed “Hobo with a Shotgun” at all.

Besides, µTorrent now acquires a new portable mode which will enable people run the client directly from a removable drive like USB. In other words, since now you are able to carry the client on you so that you could use it to download files wherever you like.

Finally, the client has the new simplified interface. BitTorrent Inc. team announced that they have been developing the new version of µTorrent focusing on convenience and better streamlined user experience. Indeed, that’s exactly what they managed to deliver. Now the user can at any moment minimize parts of the client interface for a simplified view. This is supposed to not just help the newcomers to focus their attention on the most important features of µTorrent, but also let the others to cut out distractions and focus solely on searching for, getting and playing files.

µTorrent 3.0 beta is already available online. Click here.

uTorrent 2.2 Version Released

uTorrent has launched a stable 2.2 version, highly anticipated by the public for being the first to open up the BitTorrent’s App Studio to its vast community. Besides, the version introduced the optimized proxy privacy settings to 65 million users. Finally, to highlight the fact of its collaboration with many indie artists, the release of uTorrent 2.2 was tied up with a promotion of the film “Four Eyed Monsters”, which is available for open downloading.

All in all, BitTorrent has been very active when developing its uTorrent file-sharing application this year. Apart from this particular application, BitTorrent Inc. also pushed out 2 experimental clients called Falcon and Griffin to test some of new features built into them in public. The feature that drew most attention was uTorrent’s support for Apps.

Actually, BitTorrent Apps represents a web-based extensions framework, designed to add new functionality to the client without adding more weight to the core BitTorrent application. In fact, it’s the same as many other applications, extensions and addons that are embedded into Internet browsers and mobile phones. Apps are based on JavaScript and let the third party developers design software to be integrated seamlessly with the uTorrent. People will be able to add those apps to uTorrent with a single click, and to be shown through an embedded browser window.

Originally, the Apps feature was only available to a very limited group of the users that decided to download the experimental Griffin application. Later, in September 2010 the users of BitTorrent’s Mainline software joined their team, and finally today the studio is available to all the vast audience of uTorrent, totaling to 65 million.

Among those official applications that are included into the most recent version of uTorrent is VoDo’s one – a platform containing the free works of indie moviemakers. In order to celebrate the event of Apps being bundled with uTorrent, the platform released 2 of the new films – “Snowblind” and “Four Eyed Monsters”. Actually, the producers of these movies have got an opportunity to show their works to millions of people around the world without worrying about any distribution problems. In fact, the multimillion audience of BitTorrent surpasses that of many television networks, at the same time fostering a direct connection between moviemakers and consumers.

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