Saturday, November 23, 2013

Streamza - Stream torrents on the go

Access to gazillions of torrents.
Streamza is yet another service which offers its users to get the desired torrents and stream the media files online without the hassle of downloading.Whats unique to Streamza is, it provides facility to search from one of the most popular Torrent Search Engine i.e Torrentz and users can directly add. Like most of the other similar services it offers a limited  free account.



Now that put.io has said goodbye to free accounts, Streamza is a good alernative for the users.The features are almost similar, but Streamza has a few limitations at the moment

General limitations

  • Private trackers are not supported
  • No word on whether it seeds the torrents back or its just a big monster leecher like Hive.im 

Limitations on free accounts

  • Max 2 permanent slots. (By inviting a friend)
  • Torrent size can be maximum of size 1GB.

 Goods

  • The service is quite secure, and they are very much concerned about the privacy of users. Apparently no one would know what a user gets from torrent world and streams.
  • Sharing content with friends is quite fun.
  • Their streaming experience quite better than any of its competitors
  • Contents easily available for your phone, tablet, desktop or TV set

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Hive.im - Unlimited Cloud Storage for you and your friends


Hive is a product launched by QVIVO, an established unlimited cloud storage service aimed at the content sharing/syncing market. 
Features include fetching torrents from public trackers (private tracker not tested) either via magnet links or by dropping the torrent file. Apart from this, user is able to socialize with friends i.e sharing their contents. 


As said earlier in the article these kind of services are quite helpful if you have a slow connection or the swarm is full of leechers. Because of their fast connections they retrieve the torrents quickly and you don't have to keep your connection alive while these are fetching the torrents. Then provide high speed direct, resumable download links which are compatible with IDM. 
Its quite a different way to fetch your torrents with blazing fast speeds. 
Currently the service is in beta period so all user can access streaming and converting features of the application along with unlimited bandwidth (No speed limit). 

Features Detail


Storage Size 

  • Unlimited 

Seeding 

  • There is no mentioning of this in their FAQs so we can assume that they are not concerned with seeding Transfers 
  • Can have multiple transfers at the same time (Queue system usually takes longer time for more number of files in a torrent) 

Bandwidth 

  • Currently there are not limits as the site is in Beta. 
  • Speed Hive give each torrent 4 hours to finish before it cancels the transfer Servers placed in Germany and Switzerland 

File Types Supported

  • Audio: AAC, AIF, FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGA, OGG, WAV. 
  • Documents: CSV, DMG, DOC, DOCX, ISO, PDF, PPT, PPTX, RTF, SRT, SUB, XLS, XLSX, XML. 
  •  Photos: BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG, TGA, TIFF. 
  • Videos: AVI, FLV, M4V, MKV, MOV, MP4, MPG, MPEG, OGV, RM, RMVB, WMV. 

Sharing 

  • Files/Folders can only be shared amongst the users of the service. 
  • No public sharing Streaming Content is streamable 

User Interface 

  • Organized 
  • Pleasing to eye ;) 
  • Few issues in current UI 
    •  Drag Drop functionality has issues
    •   Permissions can only apply to a folder not the subfolders(you have to apply to them separately) 

Extra features

  • Trash option 
    • Files kept for 30 days 

 Disadvantages 

  • Your social network account/ gmail account is directly linked, some people may have concerns.

Friday, March 1, 2013

Free Services to fetch torrents for You - Put.io, filestream.me and zbigz.com


These services are quite helpful if you have a slow connection or the swarm is full of leechers. Because of their fast connections they retrieve the torrents quickly and you don't have to keep your connection alive while these are fetching the torrents. At the end they provide high speed direct, resumable download links which are compatible with IDM.

 

Put.io

Its quite a different way to fetch your torrents with blazing fast speeds. 






Free Account Details

Storage Size

  • 1GB
  • It can be upgraded upto 3GB using referrals
  • They don't delete your files for inactivity
  • Link to referrals: https://put.io/referrals

Seeding

  • Public tracker torrents seeded for 1:1 ratio or 72hours without activity
  • Private tracker torrents seeded for 1:2 ratio or  72hours without activity

Transfers

  • Only 1 active Transfer allowed (including seeding torrent)

Bandwidth

  • No limit on what and how much put.io retrieves for you.
  • 1 GB per day limit on what you download/stream from put.io

Speed

  • Great speeds 100mbit connections
  • Multiple servers across the globe

Sharing 

  • Files/Folders can only be shared amongst the users of the service.
  • No public sharing

Streaming

  • Almost all the media content is streamable
  • They also allow to un-rar your files
  • Media files can also be converted in to mp4 format i.e best for phones.

User Interface

  • Very Simple
  • Interactive
  • Easy to use

 

FileStream.me

Another great service to download your torrents but its free accounts don't support seeding so its against the basic concept of sharing (discouraged). Overall it has almost the same features as of other similar services.






Free Account Details

Storage

  • 4 GB of personal space.
  • They delete your files after 7 day of the download

Seeding

  • No seeding for any torrent (Free Accounts)

Transfers

  • Multiple transfers allowed

Bandwidth

  • 10 GB per month of user downloads
  • They also don't count the bandwidth involved in downloading the files to filestream servers.

Speed

  • Great speeds 100mbit connections
  • Multiple servers across the globe

Sharing 

  • No type of sharing allowed

Streaming

  • Video and Audio Streaming.

User Interface

  • It has some serious issues with its layout and workflow
  • Random logouts
  • Many of the pages of the site don't keep track of the sessions



zbigz.com

Another service to download your torrents but again its free accounts don't support seeding. Overall it has almost the same features as of other similar services.




Free Account Details

Storage

  • Unknown personal storage size.
  • They delete your files after 7 day of the download

Seeding

  • No seeding for any torrent (Free Accounts)

Transfers

  • 2 transfers allowed

Bandwidth

  • No limit

Speed

  • Considerably slow speeds usually less than the limit 150kbps
  • They have slow connections to fetch torrents

Sharing 

  • No type of sharing allowed

Streaming

  • Video and Audio Streaming (Not for free accounts).

User Interface

  • Cool layout
  • Files or part of file instantly made available after it gets downloaded