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SickRage is a popular fork of the classic Sickbeard for periodic media shows. It uses multiple databases like TVRage and TVDB to resolve scene naming issues which can trouble the classic Sickbeard. You can use torrents and usenet to download your media and it is quite customizable. It can be valuable addition … I'm curious
Google Chrome now shows certain torrent sites as malicious and evil. The reasons are probably political but given the open nature of torrents it is possible to get malicious software from using torrents or usenet for that matter unless you protect yourself. A VPN won’t help against viruses but it … I'm curious
uTorrent is a very popular torrent client on Windows and Mac OSX. If you are considering moving your home media server and downloader to Linux (like Ubuntu or Debian) and feel comfortable with uTorrent, you can install what is called uTorrent server which provides a server daemon and web interface … I'm curious
CouchPotato is your personal PVR for long video files. It will download a list of video titles for you automatically from usenet or Torrents. For torrent clients it will use uTorrent, Deluge, Synology Download Station, Transmission, rtorrent and others. Downloading from usenet, CouchPotato will communicate with Sabnzbd and NZBGet. CouchPotato … I'm curious
Stephen304 recently created a small program named BitCannon which gives you your own personal torrent site which is a backup of KickAssTorrents. You can search in it, download torrent files just like on KickAssTorrents but from your own machine. The idea is that even if torrent sites continue to be … I'm curious
This post will cover how to setup a Transmission reverse proxy on any operating system (Windows, Linux, Mac OSX) so you can access transmission outside your home network. I recommend using a free DNS service like Afraid DNS (Guides: Windows, Mac, Linux) so you can type in … I'm curious
Transmission is my favorite lightweight torrent client for any operating system. For those using uTorrent, I can highly recommend switching to Transmission for Windows. This guide will work with Transmission on Windows, Mac OSX, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu) and any operating system. You do need to enable the Web UI … I'm curious