ADWARE :( TorrentCommander for Windows and Windows Mobile!!!

Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 12:45 pm

defcomexperiment thanks and if you are infact will to beta test ill keep u in mind when i have somethin a little bit more workable, at the rate im going may be tomorrow or day after...

and to defcomexperiment and anybody else curious here is proof of concept that TCMobile is underway

Search and sort are fully functional, this just a ugly copy im using to get all the modules and classes written but i will definately clean it up as i finish writing classes for features... If anybody has ANY suggestions now is the best time since im in early developement, keep in mind I already plan to design this to send the torrent to your desktop pc for immedeate download, hence the release of TCServer first, this app will use the same protocol as outline for TCServer.

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:42 pm

Ok i have a fully working BETA of the TCMobile app... currently does the following...

can specify and save up to 5 TCServers
can search ISO Hunt for torrents (max 100 results right now)
can send the torrent to any of ur specified TCServers.

Inmortant note for developers planning to use the TCS protocol that it needs to be sent in system default encoding and not UTF-x or ASCII, also added another optional value:

RemoteTorrentData: URI/URL of a valid .torrent file to use as the data source instead of TorrentFileData if you want to save bandwith on the client end such as if the app is on a cellphone.

so a valid stream with the new value would be:
d15:TorrentFileName12:test.torrent14:RemoteFileData30:http://server.com/test.torrente

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:40 pm

jhebbel You could edit your posts man
no double posting link Wink

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:33 pm

thetazzzz wrote:

jhebbel You could edit your posts man
no double posting link Wink

According to that link u posted, posts on different days are permitted...

Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:45 pm

jhebbel wrote:

thetazzzz wrote:

jhebbel You could edit your posts man
no double posting link Wink

According to that link u posted, posts on different days are permitted...

Well on this thread you have loads on the same dates Rolling Eyes

I will give your program ago sometime ...

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:51 am

TCMobile ver 1.0 now released for public download!!!

[links removed]

you need the most recent version of TCServer running to work with this due to minor protocol changes, get it at [links removed]

Known issues in v1.0
*You must completely quit the app after adding a TCServer in options for it to show um in the menu
*Sort will not yet work
*Torrent Info Will not yet work

More Info
On TCServer the listening IP MUST be the IP of your network adapter, not an external IP if you are behind a router!
I know this sucks for those of you with dynamic IP's so expect a update in the future to listen on adapter instead of IP.

This connection between Mobile PC and server works fine, most often if you have issues it a fouled up setting, i know documentation is spotty but if you have issues with it myself or somebody else here will be happy to help im sure.

For phones and services that use Proxies, some ports are blocked! to get around this just figure out what port ur phone uses for some other service like HTTPS and use that as you TCServer port, I know with METROPCS i had to set it to 3128 to do this. I know its not the most ideal solution but it is the best way.

NEW!!!
Ver1.1 released.
Above errors/issues fixed
All available features work fully now.

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 11:10 am

hopefully i wil have some time today to test it out...

Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 12:04 pm

Our server is once again down because RackUnlimited.com is a bunch of douchbags... Email me if you want me to send you any of the software and out server is down... jhebbel@gmail.com

TCServer had now been updated to 1.0.3.0 and supports binding to adapter rather than to IP so dynamic IP's wont have a problem anymore. Make sure to select your adapter from the settings page.

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:04 am

Couple new things:

For those of you working with or wanting to work with our TCS protocol, there are a couple addons, TCS now accepts HTTP GET requests. To use this just enter the url in form of [links removed]

It will return a http encoded response of "File Received" or an error code and explaination.

This is a very fast protocol for server client setups and was designed to be lightweight to work on mobile devices. HTTP requests now allows the TCS protocol and TCServer to be implemented into web interfaces.

I plan on developing a whitepaper that has all the info regarding the TCS protocol found here as well as some sample code to get you started if you plan on developing something for use with it. I also plan to release a whitepaper on the BEncode BDecode functions i have creates as there doesent seem to be any real code samples or documentation of this on the web other than the basic protocol standards.

Something else coming in the near future, I know TorrentCommander is lacking in feature to get you to really find it a useful tool, but there is a future for it still. I plan on implementing the BDecode functions i have created to stream real time detailed information about torrents before you download them, such as directory structure and file sizes, some of the same info found on ISOHunt torrent information pages but included in the app to allow for a more detailed breakdown of torrent search results. All the information you see in the torrent details tabs after downloading and opening i plan to make available streaming. Additionally I plan to drop torrent sites that do not allow direct streaming access to torrents like ISOHunt allows, this will allow for a faster torrent download and less "bugs" when downloading since i will no longer have to "fake" headers to try to get a torrent to download...

And for the crappy part, i gotta shake the Change Jar at you folks... We are developing this software for release as freeware but we still need something to offset the development costs. So guys, if you enjoy the software send a couple bucks or a few pennies, A donation of $4.99 gets rid of all ads in TorrentCommander (and the added real estate makes it much nicer to use) and a donation of $1.99 gets rid of the "beggar add" in TCMobile. one small donation registers all future versions of the product aswell!

FEEDBACK FEEDBACK FEEDBACK!!!
If you dont find any of the software we develop useful tell us what we can do to make it useful? tell us what you like and dislike. We strive on feedback on smaller non contracted projects like this to know what direction to run with it.

NEW 5 NOV 09
Couple serious bugs with TCServer, one is a un-escapable loop that eats up mega system resources... Bugs fixed in new version, if you have old version i highly recommend removing it and getting the new one.

Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:42 am

New Info

TorrentCommander 1.3.4 has been released and it has everything i promised and more. Since starting this project i was alwayse annoyed at the method i had to use to download .torrents from sites, well ive dumped those sites that forced me to do that, leaving only MiniNova, TorrentDownloader, BTJunkie, and ISOHunt (The only one i use Very Happy

). Though we have gone from 8 to 4 servers that we search i believe it has increased the overall "experience" in this app due to being able to add more features that weren't available to the other servers. some added features are:
* Direct download streams mean you don't need to download through hidden borwsers, just click download and its on your system.
*Pre-cached torrents, by the time you click download the torrent data is already in the programs memory so all it has to do is write it to a file, download is instantaneous!!!
* Advance torrent details before you even download shows the exact file structure of the torrent in a navigateable tree view.
* Bug fixes of course...

Dont forget to try out the TCMobile for windows mobile phones and PDA's. You can search and download torrents on the go!

The Future
If we start getting more donations and revenue on this project I will dedicate a server for this app to use for commenting and rating torrents directly from the application, i believe this is a huge feature that would definitely put this app over the top and is a must have for down loaders that like to research others success with a torrent before downloading... butt... since i would have to dedicate a server to this i.e. cost to me, i need to be sure that donations and ad revenue can cover the cost. So if anybody has any input on this or better yet is willing to donate a SQL server to the cause let me know Wink

- Happy downloading
Josh

PS- Why does the forum replace "n0 m0re d0wn10@ding" (written correctly of course) with (beware scammer).... that makes no sense to me lol

Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:44 pm

Im really surprised at the lack of response here about any of these apps, no comments or suggestions??

Im probibly going to break down and make a new SQL database on our webserver, i dont think it will eat too much bandwith... So expect a in program rating and comment system soon...

Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:41 am

I think it's just that most of us are way too used to having uTorrent handling everything. Years of habit take a while to break down. Don't be disheartened. Give it some time. Wink

Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 7:18 am

actually i've posted a link to you/this thread on a few other topics for people that may become interested

i think it is a great program you're developing
one that i may use in the future
especially remote interface via web-phone feature
but i'm not in a position to test it out
but i will continue to send people this way that might be interested

Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:58 pm

Thanks guys.

Ok well ive made the first step twards getting this program to communicate with a SQL server for rating and commenting torrents from within the app itself

I just released a version a couple seconds ago that will allow you to rate torrents 1 star through 5 stars and will allow you to see what torrents are good ones and what are fakes....

I cant seem to talk the people that host our web server into allowing external SQL connections, so for now its using a php interperter on our server to do the dirty work which means it takes longer to retreive information from the SQL and makes it difficult to enable the ratings in the search result list unless you want to wait the extra time.

Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:26 am

Ok finally got our SQL server communicating with the app so now all the cool stuff can happen! got a more stable sql connection that im workin on that is fast enough to show ratings in the search results without degrading the "experience" below is a screenshot:

Now im going to begin work on the comment system, expect to see something on that within the week, in the mean time i gotta beg people to use this software for there torrent searches and to rate torrents because the feature isn't useful unless people contribute.[/img]