Tag Archives: file sharing

[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], [ Mobile ], Upload & Download

FrostWire – Cloud downloader, BitTorrent client and media player

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FrostWire is a free and open-source BitTorrent client (formerly Gnutella client) for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android platforms, written in Java, started by the developers from LimeWire‘s open source community in 2004, as a fork of LimeWire. But starting with version 5, it entirely dropped the support for the Gnutella network, and became a pure BitTorrent client.

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Network Application

EasySMB – Simple file sharing tool for LAN

Some users would say “Who’s going to adapt to some dedicated tool to share files within a LAN now? Any instant messaging software can easily achieve the file sharing purpose”. However, considering the work efficiency, the file upload/download speed of using a dedicated LAN file-sharing tool can reach the maximum speed that a router can handle in a LAN office environment. Otherwise, you will not only occupy the important Internet bandwidth resources, but also upload and download files at a very limited speed!

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[ Mobile ], Network Application

Connect2 – Let your PC and phone to work together as one

We all know that, if you want to transfer files from computer to mobile phone or vice versa, you generally have to utilize a third-party chat tool or cloud storage service to send and receive them (provided that you have an Internet connection); The second option is to use a USB cable. However, most of us would not like to run around carrying with a bunch of cables. All in all, the file interchanging/transferring operation between a phone and a computer, or between two computers has always been a hassle.

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[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], Backup & Recovery

[2.x.x] Resilio Sync – Simple and practical multi-platform file synchronization tool

When people need to synchronize, backup or frequently share files/data between a variety of devices (including computers and mobile phones), any traditional ways of file transfer are relatively inadequate. For example, a lot of cloud storage services like Dropbox have more and more and increasingly obvious limitations or restrictions. These include: files have to be uploaded to their servers for transfer, very limited disk space capacity, pretty high requirements on Internet connection speed and stability, limitation of transmission speed and bandwidth usage, very few acceptable file types, not high enough security, easy to be blocked by some countries, expensive cost, and so on. Thereupon, Resilio Sync (formerly called BTsync, full name BitTorrent Sync, now Sync for short) came out.

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[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], Upload & Download

qBittorrent – Free, fast and reliable alternative of uTorrent & BitTorrent

It was originally written in C++ by Christophe Dumez (from France) in 2006 when he was a student. Now it’s maintained by worldwide volunteers on their spare time. qBittorrent is a free, open-source and cross-platform BitTorrent client (torrent file downloader) with nice UI based on Qt and built-in search engines.

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[ Mac Software ], Upload & Download

eMuleTorrent – eD2k & Torrent universal downloader

eMule used to be the largest and most trusted free P2P file sharing client developed by Hendrik Breitkreuz from Germany. It was started in 2002 as an alternative of eDonkey2000 (AKA: eD2k) based on eDonkey Network, retained all advantages of eDonkey, added new functions and more friendly UI.

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