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Originally Posted by KTrain
The always impressive CaptainChuckles created a great little app that will never see the light of the app store.
From our iPhones we're able to search for torrents, select them and have the files download directly to our home computers.
Especially awesome when you're out and about and a friend says, "Hey, have you seen this great independent film that is legally allowed to be shared due to its creative commons license?"
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I'm only going to take partial credit for this. During an enjoyable evening with chuckles and mrs. Chuckles I mentioned my problem. I had created a folder in my dropbox and had my bit torrent client monitoring it. That way I could drop a torrent in that folder (and being dropbox I could do that from almost anywhere), and my torrent client at home monitoring the folder would start with the download as soon as I dropped it in.
Problem is that I still had to download the torrent file. Minuscule yes, but still something you don't want to do on a work computer even if it is a legally distributed foreign film, as torrent files just look bad.
I brought this up with chuckles and i could see the gears turning. He realized it could never be an official app, but it was something he could just make for the lulz on his own time. In one day he managed to figure out a way to build an app that drops the .torrent file into your dropbox. Set the client to monitor the proper folder and boom, chuckles' genius is realized.