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Do you know that you can register with TvTorrents without invites? Problem is you’ll have almost no credits to start downloading.

Recently Milind helped me with his TvTorrents account and I built over 11 GCredits to my new account within a week.

I’ve covered the topic on building ratios extensively in two articles. Have a Torrent Ratio You Can Be Proud Of and How to Improve or Maintain Ratio in Private Torrent Trackers . If you’re looking for more read, head to the recent article featured in TorrentFreak: 10 Tips and Tricks for Private BitTorrent Sites.

Here’s one killer trick which will work in your favor and never been discussed before. Get the file from an older account from your friends account or get the files from them and then seed them to your account.
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Having a plump ratio has nice perks. No wait times, ability to invite friends, respect in the community, etc…

This is an extension of the article some months back: Have a Torrent Ratio You Can Be Proud Of.

We’ve seen how you can improve that ratio by getting in early, uploading to more than one tracker, not capping your upload, seeding for a long time, etc.

What more can you do to improve your ratio or maintain a good ratio?

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Almost all of the Torrent Trackers (Public or Private) don’t have Mac stuffs.

Demonoid and Oink used to track Mac stuffs but both is closed. Where to look for now?

There are a few good trackers for Mac Apps, Games and other things. Click the image logo for the tracker link.

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You’ve a torrent running (with active transfers) and then you click this “Force Start”.

Nothing happens.

So what is the option for?

Force Start overrides your settings (if the torrent is in Queue) and force the torrent to transfer.

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Feature rich and customizable with Plugins, Azureus was popular until Vuze came.

The Bloatware!

When a 125 KB odd feature rich client giving serious competition, it was a stage perfect for the decline.

If you aren’t using uTorrent for whatever reason (like incompatibility with OS X & Linux, long time Azureus user or want more features), you can still enjoy Azureus for your downloading pleasure.

How? Use the older version 2.5.04, the final stable version of Azureus 2.x
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Do you remember when you downloaded these x264/HD torrent file baited by the wonderful cinematic experience?

After sweating your Internet line, you try (in vain) opening the files.

HD movies are basically high definition, high resolution format which looks gorgeous. You can detect wheat and chaff from the file size. I’ve seen some 1080p torrents which are more than 35 GB in size. Most the 720p x264 will come ~4.4 GB.

This goodness after extraction will be in .mkv (or .mp4) format. How do you play this .mkv file? VLC player will play it but sometimes you won’t get sound and only video. Plus the clarity is also not good.

So, here’s a guide that will help you live hard (not just survive) in the world of P2P and HD.

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Having none to invite you at Private Torrent Trackers and checking the Private BitTorrent Sites daily under the pretext of doing research won’t do any good for your Torrent Client.

You might act on a tip off or in ‘I’m feeling Lucky’ state. Won’t life be easier if there’s automatic tracking tool?
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