Another Dropbox trick: start BitTorrent downloads remotely!

Filed under: Utilities, Productivity, P2P

Here at Download Squad, at least a few of us are in love with Dropbox for file-syncing, storage and sharing. It's a great app with a lot of uses, and after months of using it, I'm still discovering new Dropbox tricks. For example, Lifehacker just picked up on a way to start torrent downloads remotely via your Dropbox account.

Let's say you're at work, and you don't want to download several gigs of music to your work computer. It'd be nice to find the torrents you want and have the downloads start on your home machine, right? Here's how to do it with Dropbox: a lot of BitTorrent clients can watch a folder for new .torrent files and start downloads automatically. If your point your app to a folder on your Dropbox account, you can add a .torrent file to it from any computer, and the download will start automatically.

[via Lifehacker]

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