Transdroid: manage your torrents on the go, with your Android smartphone

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As you all know, I recently got an Android phone. I also happen to 'partake in the torrent' from time to time. Not that I'm a pirate or anything, but torrents are often the best solution to a given problem! In fact, I love BitTorrent so much that I actually rent a server with 100Mbit connectivity so that I can download stuff very quickly. The problem is... sometimes I forget to stop a completed torrent.

Yes, if you leave a 100Mbit connection unchecked over a 24 hour period you can accidentally transfer almost a terabyte of data. I've done this multiple times -- one time, I racked up almost 3TB on a frakkin' U2 album, of all things. My ISP always sends me an angry letter threatening to disconnect me. If only there was a solution!

Well, as it turns out there is! All you need is an Android phone, and a rather accomplished app called Transdroid. It's free and open source, and before I installed it I'd never seen the point of smartphones. Now I see why everyone loves their damn pocket-stretching brick-like smartphones.

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