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Xtrorrent

I have been downloading torrents for about a year now and I have been looking for a good application that will make it easy and quick. I have tried pretty much all of them and I think I have found the best one. Xtorrent is an application that could make torrents much more popular. Currently, torrents are more for the internet nerds and geeks, but with Xtorrent it throws all of the difficulties out.

The application is simple. Just go to your favorite torrent site (i.e. thepiratebay.org) and download the little snippet. Xtorrent will then begin to downloading your torrent and thats it. The application looks and feels quality and the torrents seem to download much faster. If you have used iTunes then you’ll pick this up pretty quick.

Xtorrent is currently in beta and will go on sale for just under $20 (pre-order and get it for $15), which is a little much, but its worth it if you are constantly downloading different torrents.

A New Idea for OnXiam

The last blog I wrote gave some constructive criticism to onxiam. I didn’t just want to tell my idea, but show it. I have made a rough outline of what the site could look like. Like I said it is pretty much a customizable Myspace that allows you to add different sites to your onxiam site. You would be able to subtract an add different widget type boxes and customize the color of each site.

Interesting idea, but where could it go?

The internet is a place to find stuff that you wouldn’t find anywhere else, from music, podcast, and even websites (umm, duh). Onxiam is one of those stuffs and I found the site just by site hopping. Onxiam is simple, it collects all of your user names from the web and connects them under another user name. I know you might be asking, “what do I need this for?” and I am also asking this question. Onxiam could be something, but it isn’t, it just collects user names.

The creator seems to be a bit busy with other things (like running marathons) to add anything that will make this site useful. Over the last six I have seen little to no updates of any sort. In no way is this site terrible, it just doesn’t really do anything. If the creator is reading this (who seems like a nice guy) this I just want to tell him to make the site something you’ll want to go back to.

What could it be? Hmm, well you could try to integrate those different user names into Onxiam itself. Maybe allow the user to add some of their Flickr photo’s, or feeds from their personal blog. Think of it as a totally customizable Myspace that lets the user decide what they want to put on there. This wouldn’t only be good for the site, but for the added items (Flickr, Blogger, Xbox Gamercard) because other users would see their friends using a certain site and then they might want to us it also. Where could it go?