2009 The Top 35 Torrent Sites

 

Torrent Root: another metasearch engine, Torrent Root will pore through other search engines on your behalf, and display the results in a slick tabbed interface for your easy browsing. WARNING: the Torrent Root web page has recently been infected by scareware and phishing viruses. The webmasters seem to have purged the infection, but fair warning: with any P2P browsing, protect yourself by installing a reliable antivirus like Avira.

Entertane: An obscure-but-good metasearch engine. Pore through eight other torrent sites quickly by using Entertane.com

Torrentportal.com

Isohunt.com Currently in a legal dispute with the Canadian Recording Industry Association, Isohunt is a longtime favorite of P2P users. The community at Isohunt also helps police abuse within their network, and reader comments and votes help to identify those torrents which should be avoided.

Alive Torrents Alive Torrents is a relatively new site. It focuses on torrents that have distinguished themselves as having a solid swarm base and an active readership.

Flixflux: a United Kingdom torrent site that is very popular with European downloader

The Pirate Bay
April 18, 2009: the Stockholm district court has sentenced the four Pirate Bay founders to a year in prison, and over $USD 3.5 million in fines. This is as punishment for violating their country's copyright laws.

Demonoid.com is back online! After legal conflicts in April of 2008, they have reestablished themselves outside of the USA. Demonoid is still a private community, and members are held liable for any leeching that their invited friends do in this community. If you are lucky enough to get a Demonoid membership, invite your friends carefully, lest you lose your own membership.

yourBittorrent: a newer service, yourBittorrent has a clean and simple design and fast searching. Keep your eye on this site.

Thunderbytes: As of July 2009, Thunderbytes is a family-friendly site with content that is good for kids and parents.

Torrent2crazy: this newer torrent site has a clean and uncluttered interface. It doesn't offer the user feedback system of Isohunt, but the torrent database is solid.

Vertor: this torrent service claims to filter out bad torrents, viruses, DRM locks, passwords, and fakes. Many readers are pleased with Vertor, and thus far their service has been exemplary. Definitely give Vertor a try.

Torrentbox.com FYI: like Isohunt, Torrentbox is being sued by the MPAA as of February 28, 2006. The days for this fine search engine may be numbered.

YouTorrent.com Still in beta testing format, this new torrent site claims to be the largest legal torrent search engine today. Accordingly, the result sets are much smaller than the "pirate" counterparts, but definitely try this site for yourself.

Torrentengine.co.cc: a very spartan-looking torrent engine, with very fast results and and icons that denote verified sources.

Torrentscan.com (a "meta-search" engine, which is a search engine that searches other search engines)

H33T: Don't let the plain site design fool you: this newer torrent site has gotten very positive reviews from About.com readers.

Zoozle.org: a competent German search engine for finding specific files, cracks, and serials.

BiteNova (formerly known as "Bi-Torrents", BiteNova is a free Torrent site with a spartan look and fast searching format.)

Torrentreactor.to (Torrentreactor has made a comeback from a hijacking and an uncooperative hosting service. They have moved to a different server setup and a Tonga country domain outside the USA.)

 

Torrentz.com (special thanks to reader, Jonathan R., for this link)

Mininova.org Mininova is the successor to Suprnova, one of the original big torrent databases of the Web.

Meganova.org which has been rebranded as "Seed Peer"

BTbot.com (this site has been intimidated into listing fewer and fewer current torrents. The administrator was likely spooked by the recent wave of lawsuits against Isohunt and Pirate Bay)

FullDLS.com

Plentyoftorrents: this is a kind of launchpad search engine that offers choices where you want to search.

Scrapetorrent.com is another torrent meta-search engine that is gaining popularity.

Bitsoup Bitsoup is a growing favorite amongst P2P downloaders.

Torrentmatrix.com

bittorrent.com (the official Torrent website by Bram Cohen, the designer of the Python BitTorrent format.)

Fenopy (formerly Bitoogle.com) (the 'original' bittorrent search engine, which has now morphed into a metasearch engine. The results from your Bitoogle searches will point to various other torrent search sites. This site has been redirected recently.)

Torrents.to

Special mention: Gpirate.com (A newer torrent search engine that several readers are very fond of.)

Special mention: TuxDistro.com (For legal linux torrents and virtual machines.)

Special mention: Commonbits.com (This new beta search site is dedicated to media on progressive political content: audio, video, photos, reports, transcripts and other files. This is a place for activists to share their message, and for people to learn about other political choices. Unfortunately, the owners have had to move the site because of legal/financial pressures. We hope to see it back soon.)

 

Increase Life Span of Your Laptop's Battery With Proper Calibration

 

The life of the laptop’s battery depends upon multiple factors. One of the most important factors is the system you follow to charge the battery and how it gets discharged. It’s like memory in the battery. The battery retains your habits of charging/discharging and after some time, it is never fully charged or discharged.

For instance, you will notice that when you purchased the laptop the battery lasted for around 2 hours, but now it lasts only for around 45 minutes. This is because, you probably keep the laptop connected to power cable for long intervals of time and the battery has forgotten its ability.

To restore its capability a complete charge and discharge cycle is required. This is called battery calibration. You should calibrate your laptop’s battery at least once in a month to prolong its life and mileage.

 

How to Calibrate Laptop’s Battery

1. First charge the laptop’s battery to 100%.

2. Assuming that you are on windows, Go to Control Panel > Power Options. Now change the hibernation settings such that the laptop auto hibernates when the battery level reaches 4%.

3. Now use the laptop normally until it auto hibernates.

4. Now leave the laptop alone for at least 5-6 hours.

5. After this, charge the battery again to 100%.

That’s it. Calibrate your laptop’s battery once every month to increase its life span.

 

Important Note - This method of calibration works only if your laptop uses Ni-MH cells in the battery. If your laptop uses Li-Ion battery, then DON’T USE this method as it will decrease the life span of your Li-Ion battery. Check your laptop’s manual to find out the battery type.