Poisoned is a file sharing application for Mac OS X that can connect to several file sharing networks seamlessly. It connects to the FastTrack network (Kazaa, Grokster, iMesh), the Gnutella network (Limewire, Acquisition), and OpenFT.
Poisoned supports multiple source download and integrates with iTunes beautifully, automatically importing into iTunes and deleting the original file if iTunes manages your music library.

Find out more or go straight to download and try.

Available for:

• MacOS X (10.2 or higher)

It’s amazing how quickly BitTorrent has become one of the major download formats. It’s fast, equitable, efficient and nowadays harnesses a community of over 70 million users.
This is post however is about BitTorrent’s official software client that allows you to quickly download high-quality digital content such as video, music, and games and is available in over 20 languages.
It features, among other things, dynamic bandwidth management, which allows you to download content without disrupting web browsing, email, or other applications. Even though this software was built by the same team that invented BitTorrent it doesn’t necessarily make it better than other BitTorrent clients freely available (such as Azureus or μTorrent) at least feature-wise. Compare and judge according to your needs and download habits.

BitTorrent’s client pretty much concise info & download page can be visited through this link.

Available for:

• Windows
• MacOS X
• Linux

If you’re not familiar with the BitTorrent P2P protocol and its differences to other file sharing systems, it is all explained at

A very good Gnutella search and download file-sharing program for Windows. Fully supporting the G2 network, one of it’s most interesting features is that it diverges from the usual interface with tabs separating different parts of the program, and instead uses sub-windows so that users can observe different aspects of the program simultaneously (watching downloads progress while chatting with a friend, or performing an unlimited number of searches at the same time).

Visit the Gnucleus site for more info and downloads.

Available for:

• Windows

Cabos is a Gnutella file sharing program based on LimeWire and Acquisition. It features firewall to firewall transfers, proxy transfers, Universal Plug and Play, iTunes + iPod integration, Creative Commons integration, “What’s New?” searches, international searches, and more.
There is a growing list of available language packs for it, and it is actively being developed and enhanced by a team of Japanese open source developers.

You can find out more here or download from here.

Available for:

• Windows
• MacOS (8.6 or later)
• MacOS X (10.2.8 or later)

μTorrent comes in at a tiny (less than 170 KB) package. It’s fast, lean on resources (allowing you to use the computer as if it weren’t there at all), easy to use and requires no installation. Its formidable feature list includes trackerless downloads, multiple simultaneous downloads, multi-scrape, UPnP and it even offers an inbuilt RSS reader. It is skinnable and localized (39 supported languages and counting) and being enhanced and developed so fast and constantly that occasional bugs are quickly addressed and fixed.

Learn more about μTorrent at the official site. While there you can also check out the first public beta of µTorrent’s WebUI which lets you control μTorrent from anywhere via web.

Available for:

• Windows

If you’re not familiar with the BitTorrent P2P protocol and its differences to other file sharing systems, it is all explained at

Java based and therefore available for multiple platforms & 40 languages, Azureus is feature rich and supports embedded tracker so you can host your own torrents, UPnP, a distributed decentralized database for decentralized torrents and DHT (Distributed Hash Table) which distributes indexing responsibility across multiple clients rather than relying on a single web-based tracker plus many other features too numerous to mention.
The project is very well supported and there are a lot of plug-ins available including, a competent RSS feed scanner, “Status Mailer” which notifies you by mail when a download finishes, remote control of Azureus through the Swing Web Interface or the HTML Web Interface and more. One downside is that the Java code will eat up your CPU cycles so you need a reasonably fast PC.

You can find out more and/or download it here.

Available for:

• Windows
• MacOS X
• Linux
• Solaris

If you’re not familiar with the BitTorrent P2P protocol and its differences to other file sharing systems, it is all explained at