Gizmodo: transmission

µTorrent iPhone App Rejected, Heads Over to Cydia

Danny Allen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:15:00 EDT

µMonitor is little iPhone app that lets you remotely control µTorrent back at your computer. But like Transmission's Drivetrain app, it's been banned by Apple on anti-piracy grounds. Usefully, however: Jailbreakers can still pick it up via Cydia.

It kind of sux that even a monitoring app got banned. But, according to Apple:

…this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights. We have chosen to not publish this type of application to the App Store.

So no torrent apps, at all, period. Right then.

Instructions on how to install µMonitor on a Jailbroken iPhone can be found here: [µMonitor via TorrentFreak]

iPhone's First Native P2P Torrent App is Up and Running

Haroon Malik — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:40:00 EST

Core, an iPhone Hacker with mad hacking skills, has managed to port to the iPhone a functioning P2P client based on Transmission, which is a popular torrent app for Macs. This is the first time P2P torrent software has run natively on the iPhone, and the prospect has us in tizzy fits of excitement.

Tests have been carried out, and they have worked a charm. However, before you guys go nuts about downloading completely legal torrent files, there are some things you should know:

• This is a command line client at present, and although someone will chuck a GUI on it in the near future, steer clear unless you can handle messing with terminal.
• EDGE and P2P will screw your shit up. If you plan to get your download on, it's WiFi all the way.
• If you start a download immediately before having sex, your iPhone's battery will be dead before you are finished; i.e. torrenting will drain your battery extremely rapidly.
• You won't see this up in installer.app, hit through on the link for further instructions.

All that aside, this is a neat development and bodes well for the post-SDK era. If anyone does give this one a go, let us know how you get on. [Wickedpsyched via TUAW]

Bike by Ellsworth, Transmission by Leonardo da Vinci

Charlie White — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:45:00 EDT

Bicycle transmissions have clearly caught up with those of cars. We've already seen automatic transmission bikes by Shimano and others—and now there's a continuously variable transmission (CVT) in this Ellsworth bicycle that works in a similar way to our Honda Civic Hybrid.

Well, almost. It's a bit different because it's based on an invention by Leonardo da Vinci, a continuously variable planetary (CVP) drive called the NuVinci CVP. What the heck is that? You still have to shift gears, but the response is instant, and there's no clanging or clicking involved whatsoever. That bike pictured above isn't cheap; you'll pay around $3,000 for one. Jump to see a video showing how the CVP drive works.

The CVP drive will be available as a kit for other brands of bicycles later this year. – Charlie White

Product Page [Ellsworth Bicycles, via OhGizmo]

Blazing Wireless: How's About 6Gb Per Second?

Charlie White — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:48:43 EST

We always want to show you the world's strongest, biggest and fastest, and now researchers have created the world's fastest wireless link, cramming over 6Gb per second through a point-to-point wireless link. This speedy wireless trick was demoed last month by CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, which is Australia's national science agency.

Jeez, that's fast. Just think, at that rate, it will only take Time Warner about .02 seconds to throttle my Internet connection. But wait. It gets even faster!

The CSIRO researchers say this just the beginning, where soon they'll achieve wireless links that are twice as fast. They say their transmission technique yields the highest efficiency ever achieved, and they hope to use the technology in place of fiber optic cables over rivers, across valleys or through congested urban environments.

Figuring that a 6Gb/sec link can download an entire DVD's worth of video in six seconds, this kind of speed could come in handy. Can you spell H-D-T-V? – Charlie White

CSIRO demonstrates world's fastest wireless link [CSIRO]