Transmission and Azureus are the best applications for bitTorrent sharing on Mac OS X. Both applications are competing for its users.

Azureus is a very complex application, which knows almost everything is very well connected with other services, offering directly for download a lot of movie trailers and free songs directly to your computer with just one single click.

Transmission is a complete opposite of Azureus. With a very simple user interface, which consists just from one window showing all your torrents and their progress in downloading and uploading. All you can do is just to make a set up of the download and upload speed limits, which I fully recommends to you. The authors of Transmission say, that Transmission have very simple and intuitive user interface, which is something you have to agree with. It is almost mission impossible to make the user interface simpler from their solution.

Transmission fully co-operate with Growl notification system and you are informed about the status of the files downloaded and uploaded with notifications, which helps you to monitor the overall status of the transfers. To make things even better, the speed of download and upload are shown on the icon in the Dock.

Transmission is a true Mac OS X application. When you define one folder, where you put your torrent files, Transmission can be set to watch this folder automatically and adding them for download without any interference from your side. This is really great feature of the application.

Comparing Transmission and Azureus bitTorrent clients is not that easy. Transmission is a light weight application, which does not consume a lot of resources of your computer and it is amazingly fast. Compared to Azureus, which is written in Java, it is a lot more quicker and for many users - the work with the application can be much more comfortable. Today, I would definitely choose Transmission over Azureus. In case, you need just to download bitTorrent files from the Internet - you have no option - just take Transmission.

Transmission is provided to the community as open source application and you can modify the application as you want to. I had several issues configuring Transmission correctly as Airport Express was a bit blocking my communication, but with external help from friends I made finally Transmission communicating with external world around me.

When you need the application for sharing bitTorrent files I can fully recommend Transmission. Transmission bitTorrent client is available for Mac OS X, Linux and BeOS.

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