Electorrent offers you the possibility to control your torrent downloads from any Mac connected to the same network as the uTorrent server, as long as the built-in Web UI server is running. Via the Electorrent well-organized user interface, you get to keep track of each download, control the transfer.
NOTE: uTorrent is Windows-only, but you can access and control uTorrent via the WebUI using virtually any browser on any platform (except for IE6, that is, which 'is not supported and never will be'). – Use a CRNG as a WebUI token source – Require device/service pairing or standard webui authentication for the /proxy endpoint – Sanity check Host header on HTTP requests – Remove automatic discoverability feature over port 10000. The setting net.discoverable no longer exists.
Mac users and switchers now have another option to consider when looking for a capable BitTorrent client with the official arrival of a uTorrent beta.
As a long-time favorite on Windows, the arrival of this beta (brought to our attention by TUAW) brings uTorrent's rich customizability and minimum resource requirements to Intel and (kinda) PowerPC Mac users. While the download page states that this beta is only for Intel Macs running Leopard, these twothreads state that uTorrent will run on PowerPC chips, though it'll be buggy and slow.
Most of uTorrent's well-known Windows features tagged along on the journey to the Mac, though some, such as RSS downloading, torrent creation, and the webui, aren't here yet (boo). Fortunately, uTorrent's developers are planning to bring and keep uTorrent for Mac in feature parity with the Windows version.
Still, after a quick spin with the beta to download Ubuntu 8.10, it seems to be pretty solid, complete with a refreshingly Mac-like UI. RAM usage never stepped beyond 20MB, and Ubuntu made it down in less than 17 minutes.
Becoming the most popular BitTorrent client a few years ago, BitTorrent Inc. decided to acquire uTorrent in 2006 and promised a Mac version at that time. An early alpha of uTorrent for the Mac was leaked back in September this year, which TorrentFreak said 'looks very Mac-like, and better than its Windows counterpart.'
Despite the official Mac uTorrent page still stating that a version is coming soon and offering e-mail notifications, you can snag a copy from the beta page.
– Bump version to 3.5.0 / 7.10.0
– Fix a bug that could have caused the webui to set an invalid port
– Update uTorrent Pro Antivirus integration.
– Remove old OpenCandy integration code
– Introduce a new uTorrent Pro payments partner: Nexway
– Fix broken in-client pro info page. Reachable via Help ->My Pro Account
– Fix bug that would cause Ad audio to incorrectly play when user is not using the client
– Allow muting of ad sound when moving mouse outside of Ad window
– Fix potential crash when activating a uTorrent Pro license
– Disable the ‘Install Teredo” button on Win 7 and higher. We no longer support Teredo on these systems
– Fix a potential XSS when attempting to pair remotely to a running client instance
– Fix memory leak when activating a uTorrent Pro key
– Fix a bug in the WebHelper process that would cause it to crash repeatedly
– Fix a connection handling bug that would cause torrents with webseeds to stall while downloading
– Fix a statusbar updating bug when a torrent with webseed peers would forcibly disconnect
– Add missing support for Windows 8 internal version checking
– Fix a DHT bug that would cause uTorrent to count and prioritize IPv6 IPs improperly
– Fix an onboarding bug that sometimes allowed the tooltip to persist even if uTorrent was minimized
– Add better handling and error reporting for activation server errors