Transmission is an open-source bittorrent client which is pretty popular among the Mac community. I got my hands on the Beta version of Transmission 0.7 and checked out some of it’s cool new features.
This is the main window of Transmission, simple and light weight, just how I like applications. You can easily see your currently active transfers, and then have a few simple options in the toolbar above.
The changes to this version of Transmission are more “preference sided”. In the general preference window you now have the option to size the window to fit all current active downloads, not a huge feature but it’s the little things which count.
Clicking on the bandwidth tab you get a few more new options. Firstly, the Speed Limit Mode. This gives you the option of setting restrictions on how, and how fast torrents can be downloaded. You can enable this feature by hitting the little turtle button in the main Transmission window. Very handy if you want to cut down on your bittorrent usage during the day when you want to have your internet connection free and speedy.
You can also set a speed limit between certain hours, I will personally be using this feature a lot, having the speed capped between 6AM – 9PM daily.
The final new feature is found in the Transfers preference window. Where you can tell Transmission to watch a certain location for new .torrent files – so when it finds one in this chosen location, it will automatically add it to Transmission and begin downloading.
In all, a nice stable release with some great new small features which continue to grow on Transmission’s already large, but simplistic feature set. Get your hand’s on version 0.7 here.
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