Web-Based BitTorrent Client BitLet Evolves; Now Allows Easy Uploads

Exactly two months ago we brought you word of the debut of an ultra-simple Web-based utility of the peer-to-peer milieu, called BitLet. Today, we send you notice of its ongoing evolution.

Whereas prior to this moment one could only use the BitTorrent utility to download files from the Web, BitLet now offers the option to upload data to “the cloud” with little or no trouble just the same. One must only click BitLet’s ‘Upload’ button located at the top of the page, choose a tracker, enter a comment/description if one so wishes, and then proceed to select a file (or directory) to present as a torrent metafile online. After completing these steps, BitLet also gives one the convenient option to publish the torrent(s) to Mininova, a link hub among the most popular and active on the Web at present.

Doesn’t get much easier than that, eh?

BitLet was built to give anyone the option to download digital torrents quickly and easily, with no local software whatsoever; it’s been both celebrated and lampooned for its no-nonsense, elementary makeup.

It has the basic traits of a BitTorrent client with none of the menu systems and configurable parameters commonly found in more advanced, desktop-based offerings available today, making it at once a great starter utility for folks uninterested in tweaking preference settings in software, and an abysmal, only-as-a-last-resort solution for power procurers and proliferators (what I go through to provide the Profy readership with cheesy alliteration…) to use either when on the go or using an Internet-connected terminal one does not own. A PC made available by an employer or scholarly institution, for example.

While I cannot personally profess to use BitLet for "quick and easy" online file transfers (I obtain things free and legal by way of Vuze, a Java-based construct built on the Azureus utility) it’s certainly a great alternative to more advanced solutions if an alternative is what one requires.

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