An iPhone and iPad app that allows you to stream any type of torrent was demoed this past weekend at the Tech Crunch Hackthon. TC reports that “Carnegie Mellon student and a future Google intern Sohail Prasad built a working torrent streamer.” The software is a simple app that you copy and paste a torrent link into, then it begins streaming it instantly. In the case of the video, it’s a video. It’s not out yet, and whether or not it will be on an iOS device that is not jailbroken remains to be seen, but Sohail Prasad, the developer of the Now Stream app has launched a beta notification website to see who is interested at nowstre.am.

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One of the first things he installed on the Nokia N900 is Transmission, a BitTorrent client that’ll happily run on the N900 for all your downloading needs. He tried to start up a torrent and it seemed to connect just fine, downloading the video file without a hitch.

It’s also very good that the Nokia N900 Internet tablet was able to play the XviD file natively without any patches or bug fixes. Further still, the standard Wi-Fi connection was able to yield an average download speed of 700 KB/sec, ramping up to 2.25MB/sec at one point. That’s the good news.

In terms of bad news, the N900 does not have any software available to de-compress RAR files, a format favored by many BitTorrent users. Second, downloading a single 300MB file via BitTorrent tore through 20% of the battery. This means that you’ll barely survive the download of four or five episodes.

So, in short, BitTorrent works on the N900, but it’s far from perfect.

Source: Intomobile

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