As an Art Director for BitTorrent, I look for tools that help remove any technical barriers to the creative process – for my team and me. As creatives, we have some particular needs, given our work involves things like having to manage huge file sizes and keeping special folders – such as fonts and icon […]
Photographer Niall McKenna: 5 Ways I Use BitTorrent Sync
In today’s post, photographer and Shutter Discovery blogger Niall McKenna shows how Sync can be used for things like file backup and group collaboration on projects.
Sync Stories: A Backup System Fully In Your Control
Sync Stories is a column dedicated to our users. Each week, we showcase a different use case for BitTorrent Sync and the personal stories behind it. In this week’s edition: David Capps, product development manager at Keystone Software, shares how he uses Sync to backup personal files via a work laptop, home PC and Web server, […]
Sync Stories: Northeastern University’s Video Crew Alleviates Storage Nightmare
Sync Stories is a column dedicated to our users. Each week, we showcase a different use case for BitTorrent Sync and the personal stories behind it. In this week’s edition: Northeastern University’s digital media producer Frank Hegyi shares how he and his video production team have used Sync to create a fast and efficient shared […]
uTorrent x Sync: All Your Files, On All Devices
Whether it’s Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes from Thom Yorke (downloaded over 4.4 million times), Diplo’s previously unreleased first album F10rida (over 2.1m downloads), or clips from the documentary Korengal (over 750k downloads), if you’ve gotten one of these bundles via uTorrent, they only live on one device.
Sync Dev: Securely Deploying Sync
Developing on the Resilio Sync API? Our developer evangelist is here to work with you. This is a cross-post from CloudSigma’s blog by Viktor Petersson. Configure the server You should think twice before handing over your sensitive data to a cloud backup service. As convenient as it may be, you should still ask if it is […]
Cloud Storage’s Race To Zero
A version of this article ran in Information Week on 12/11/2014. Cloud storage might look like a cheap and easy way to store your files, but don’t be fooled.
Adobe Lightroom + BitTorrent Sync for Settings Syncing Across Devices
In today’s post, UX/UI designer Frank Neulichedl shows us how he uses Sync with Adobe Lightroom to keep the app settings consistent across computers.
Pair a Low Storage Laptop with a High Capacity NAS Running BitTorrent Sync
If you own a lightweight device like a MacBook Air or Ultrabook, you may be well aware that reducing physical size sometimes comes with a trade off for less digital storage. To offset this reduced capacity, you can use a NAS (short for Network Attached Storage) device on your network to bolster your capacity. These […]
Sync Dev: Automating Task Execution Among Servers With Sync
Developing on the BitTorrent Sync API? Our developer evangelist is here to work with you. This is a guest post by David Muñoz – Director at OK HOSTING, a Mexican company that offers corporate software development, web design and hosting services.
Sync Stories: A Short Film in Post Production
Sync Stories is a column dedicated to our users. Each week, we showcase a different use case for BitTorrent Sync and the personal stories behind it. In this week’s edition: The team behind Catherine Adelaide shares how they’ve used Sync to share and collaborate, working with large files that require speed and security, with team […]
Sync App: All Your Desktop Folders, On The Go
When I’m at work and on my laptop, there’s a very specific folder structure that I’m used to: Each project has it’s own folder (with different sub folders), while each product has it’s own separate folder system, and so on. It keeps things very organized and accessible … that is, until I’m without my laptop […]
Sync Dev: Envisioning decentralized peer-to-peer email
Part of the fun of working on a decentralized peer-to-peer application like Sync is imagining what cool things could be built on the API and how the world could benefit from decentralized [insert technology here]. As I was sending emails today, I started to think about what decentralized email would look like built on Sync. […]
What To Expect Next From BitTorrent Sync
A year and a half ago, BitTorrent Sync started with a simple idea: give people the ability to sync large files fast by skipping the cloud. We’ve been humbled by the enthusiastic reception during the Alpha and Beta phases, and we’re now getting ready to take the Beta tag off and introduce a premium edition […]
BitTorrent Sync Reviewed by Third Party Security Firm
BitTorrent has a long history of putting the end user in control and we place privacy at a premium. This is our core mission and fundamental to creating a sustainable Internet.
Sync Stories: Photography Backup Strategy with HDDs and HP Microservers
Sync Stories is a column dedicated to our users. Each week, we showcase a different use case for BitTorrent Sync and the personal stories behind it. In this week’s edition: On his blog Shutter Discovery, photographer Niall McKenna shares how he uses Sync to keep precious photographs safe and secure with a backup strategy that involves […]
How to Sync iTunes to Android
I love my Moto X and I’ve been on Android since I first got my HTC Incredible in 2010, but I’m chained to iTunes for managing my music and podcast subscriptions on my laptop. This has caused no end of inconveniences when trying to figure out the best way to move music and podcasts from […]
Backup Mobile Photos With Sync (Video)
If you’re looking for a easy and secure way to backup all the photos and videos on your mobile device, Sync is here to help.
Sync Dev: Resources For Building On Sync’s API
Developing on the BitTorrent Sync API? Our developer evangelist is here to work with you. It’s not a secret – one of my personal and professional goals is to get more people building decentralised peer-to-peer applications on Sync’s API. The Sync developer community has been great so far with providing wrappers, help on the forums, […]
How A Software Developer Can Leverage BitTorrent Sync
The ease in which Sync transports files between multiple endpoints makes it a useful tool for software developers. In this post I’ll walk through how Sync can be used for deployment as well as mirroring Git repositories – then we’ll look at extending these use cases with the developer API.