#4 Leopard application of the day (Free)
Simply put Transmission is a fast, simple, and super easy to use bit-torrent client. As, mentioned in the #18 Azureus, bit torrent is the fresh peer-2-peer file transfer protocol.Azureus is great, but it is a bit large and can be a bit more complicated than necessary. When you want a quick and easy torrent client there is Transmission!
Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.
It Just Works
Transmission runs natively on over five operating systems. Seamless configuration of your network, intelligent banning of peers who send corrupted data, protocol encryption, and built in Peer Exchange are some of the features which enable Transmission to download your files as quickly as possible. All this is done in the background, without the user having to worry about complicated settings.
Open Source
Transmission is fully open source, with most code licensed under the liberal MIT License and with select code licensed under the GNU General Public License. If you are interested in helping out the Transmission project in any way, we encourage you to head over to our development page. The current developers welcome anybody who is interested in implementing new features, documentation or translations. ›› Learn More
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