10/17/07
Are you using Bit Torrent yet? It's speedy, pretty safe, and really easy to use once you know the 4 basic steps.
If it comes in an electronic file, it can be downloaded with Bit Torrent. Software, console and PC video games, movies, pictures, music, TV shows, books, you name it. Right now you're about ten minutes away from turning the internet into a huge cookie jar!
Bit Torrent is a program, and you need to install it. Download official version here. Alternate version available here. I use the latter. When prompted for preferences during setup, you don't really need to add icons to your desktop or anywhere else. Trust me.
Once Bit Torrent is installed you basically have the sharpener. Now you need a pencil to use it on.
To download a file, you need to find a "torrent file" for Bit Torrent to be able to find it on the internet. A torrent file is a tiny file that, when double clicked, opens itself in the Bit Torrent software and tells Bit Torrent what to download. That's how it's done! That may be a lot to keep track of.
1. Install Bit Torrent software.
2. Find a file that you want to download, let's say the new Kid Rock album. Go to a torrent search site like this one. Type in what you want and you will get a bunch of results. Click on one, it should initiate a download. Put that file on your desktop, the download should take less than a second.
3. You don't have the album quite yet! Double click the file you just downloaded. Bit Torrent will open up and you will see it begin searching. As soon as you connects to a source, a folder will appear on your desktop, called "Kid Rock Whatever Whatever". Inside of the file, it will appear that there are mp3s already there. Check the properties... 0 MB in size. They need to fill up! As the Bit Torrent software nears 100% on the download status bar...the files on your desktop will get bigger and bigger in size, like they are filling up. The initial new folder and mp3 icons are just placeholders for the files you will be downloading
4. When the Bit Torrent software says the "downloaded has succeeded!" the files on your desktop will be fully there and ready to be used.
Things to remember:
If it comes in an electronic file, it can be downloaded with Bit Torrent. Software, console and PC video games, movies, pictures, music, TV shows, books, you name it. Right now you're about ten minutes away from turning the internet into a huge cookie jar!
Bit Torrent is a program, and you need to install it. Download official version here. Alternate version available here. I use the latter. When prompted for preferences during setup, you don't really need to add icons to your desktop or anywhere else. Trust me.
Once Bit Torrent is installed you basically have the sharpener. Now you need a pencil to use it on.
To download a file, you need to find a "torrent file" for Bit Torrent to be able to find it on the internet. A torrent file is a tiny file that, when double clicked, opens itself in the Bit Torrent software and tells Bit Torrent what to download. That's how it's done! That may be a lot to keep track of.
1. Install Bit Torrent software.
2. Find a file that you want to download, let's say the new Kid Rock album. Go to a torrent search site like this one. Type in what you want and you will get a bunch of results. Click on one, it should initiate a download. Put that file on your desktop, the download should take less than a second.
3. You don't have the album quite yet! Double click the file you just downloaded. Bit Torrent will open up and you will see it begin searching. As soon as you connects to a source, a folder will appear on your desktop, called "Kid Rock Whatever Whatever". Inside of the file, it will appear that there are mp3s already there. Check the properties... 0 MB in size. They need to fill up! As the Bit Torrent software nears 100% on the download status bar...the files on your desktop will get bigger and bigger in size, like they are filling up. The initial new folder and mp3 icons are just placeholders for the files you will be downloading
4. When the Bit Torrent software says the "downloaded has succeeded!" the files on your desktop will be fully there and ready to be used.
Things to remember:
- Set up your preferences to put new downloads on your desktop.
- Even though it looks like you have a folder with 12 songs in it, you don't actually have all of the files until Bit Torrent says you're done downloading.
- Start easy, search for new release CDs or TV shows. They are the most widely available files at a given time.
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