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Manage Your BitTorrent Downloads From Anywhere with Clutch

By Scott Gilbertson January 28, 2008 Categories: Platforms & APIs

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A new open-source application lets you remotely manage your BitTorrent downloads using a web browser.

Clutch, a free download for Mac OS X and Linux, adds a simple web interface to the popular Transmission client. Install all of the bundled software and you can manage your active shares in Transmission from any computer on the internet. Clutch uses a simple Ajax interface to display real-time data, so you’ll be able to control all of your torrent sharing in any modern browser that can handle Ajax. You can set per-torrent preferences, too (see the screenshots below). It’s remarkable — the web interface looks just like Transmission running in your browser. All without Flash or Java, which is nice.

Please note that you’re required to run Transmission (also a free, Mac/Linux-only download) on your home machine to get Clutch’s remote management capabilities. You can’t use Clutch with other BitTorrent clients.

Transmission is an open-source BitTorrent client beloved by Mac users. It uses a daemon for remote control, and Clutch is simply a web-based UI wrapper for the Transmission daemon. Other torrent clients use similar means for remote control, but this is one of the slickest we’ve seen and definitely the best option for Mac users.

Here are some more screenshots:

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