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ezRSS Provides BitTorrent Feeds of Your Favorite TV Shows [BitTorrent]

Posted on August 4, 2009
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Web site ezRSS is yet another web site designed to help you “subscribe” to your favorite TV shows via BitTorrent so your download automatically starts as soon as a new episode is available (known as broadcatching).

We’ve seen a couple of similar offerings in the past, including previously mentioned FeedMyTorrents (now dead) and tvRSS (which is also defunct and now actually redirects to ezRSS), but ezRSS comes from the folks at EZTV, probably the most popular TV torrent release group.

Need a little help setting up broadcatching with your BitTorrent client? Check out ezRSS’s guide to using the RSS feed with uTorrent, or follow our previous instructions on how to get your TV season pass (substitute ezRSS for tvRSS in that post and you should be good to go). In the meantime, let’s hear how you automate your downloads in the comments.





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WatchDox Adds Security Options to Online Document Sharing [File Sharing]

Posted on June 1, 2009
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We’ve highlighted many ways to help you share files over the internet. Newly launched service WatchDox aims to make the document-sharing process more secure.

Once you've chosen and uploaded the document(s) you want to share, WatchDox lets you enter your recipient's email address along with your own, which WatchBox will validate. Then you can select what permissions you want to give to the person you're sharing with—including whether they can print, forward, or copy the document. You can also set when you want the document to expire (maximum 30 days).

As its name implies, WatchDox lets you track who views and opens your documents and modify the permission settings as you like. You can send an unlimited number of documents (uploaded two at a time, up to 15MB), and store up to 50MB online. There’s also a Microsoft Outlook plug-in available for download to share directly from Outlook.

Of course, WatchDox can't guarantee 100-percent safe document transfers—it can't prevent someone from taking a screen grab, for one—but the service provides enough added security benefits to make it worth a look. WatchDox is currently in beta and free to use.





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ShowRSS Automates Your TV Show Downloads [BitTorrent]

Posted on May 27, 2009
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If you’re missing the now defunct FeedMyTorrents and its awesome duplicate-free RSS based automation, showRSS offers the same functionality and integration with RSS-enabled BitTorrent clients.

Founded by a refugee from FeedMyTorrents, showRSS has shielded itself from the same fate by setting up camp in Spain where torrents have been ruled legal. The site collects torrents from a variety of sources and weeds out the duplicates. You pick from shows you want to keep an eye on and showRSS adds them to your personal RSS feed. From there you can load the feed into a feed reader and manually select links to shows as they appear or you can plug it into a BitTorrent client with RSS support like µTorrent to automate the process.





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Move Half-Finished BitTorrent Downloads to Another Drive [BitTorrent]

Posted on April 16, 2009
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If you’ve ever run your drive out of space while a long-running download is still going, the Online Tech Tips weblog writes up a simple solution to change your download location to another drive.

The solution is easy enough: With uTorrent, just stop the torrent, change the download location to another external drive, and then move the half-finished files to the new downloads folder. Once you choose to restart the download again, uTorrent will detect the half-finished files and pick up where it left off. It’s a simple solution, but might come in handy.

Hit the link for the full walk-through, or for more on BitTorrent, check out our beginner’s guide to BitTorrent, go through the intermediate guide, and then check out our top 10 BitTorrent tips and tricks.

On the other hand, if you’re on OS X or Linux using Transmission, this process is even easier. Just click the folder icon for your current download and select the Move Data File To option, choose where you want it to save, and you’re done.





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Vertor Verifies, Previews Torrents Before You Download Them [BitTorrent]

Posted on January 14, 2009
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Ever spend hours downloading content off BitTorrent to find that what you downloaded wasn't close to what you wanted, or—worse yet—it contained a virus? Wouldn't it be nice if your BitTorrent tracker verified every torrent?

BitTorrent tracker Vertor verifies, scans, and previews BitTorrent downloads so you don’t end up with viruses or bum downloads. It does so by downloading every torrent it finds and scanning the files for viruses. If the download is a video, Vertor takes extracts stills from the video and posts them on the site so you can get a better idea of the content and quality of the download in question.

According to the Vertor stats, the tracker has processed 418,000 torrents in change. Of those 418k, 133,000 are verified, 2,930 were infected, 5,585 were password protected, and 257,000 contained some sort of download errors. Of course, you'll never see the bum torrents on Vertor, which is the whole point. The site is brand new, and though it appears to be working through some growing pains—they're updating their antivirus software for more accuracy, for example—it's a great idea. Previously mentioned Seedpeer took a similar approach to eliminating bad torrents, but Vertor’s larger feature set looks promising.






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