![]() It's content before chrome which is Metro-y, but it's too much content. ![]() That one looks alright but to me it still has the problem a lot do - they take the basic template you get if you make a certain Visual Studio project and then fill it with text. Oh well, let the market decide - if mine's better it'll become popular regardless of competition. I've been working on and off on mine since September last year but I decided (maybe stupidly) to save it for a uni project. Ha, that's what I get for not checking the store for a few months. There don't seem to be any apps supporting Transmission (there was one but it seems gone now), and frankly every single torrent client on the Windows Store is HIDEOUS, so for my 3rd year uni project I'm writing a torrent client. If you're interested in the other sort, I'm actually writing an app for remote controlling µTorrent and Transmission as a free app for W8.1 and WP8. I'm sure they'll be improved over time, though. ![]() Torrex is the better of the two as far as I am aware, but both are quite new and sadly often a little unstable. All other torrent clients on the store are the type I've described above, so if you want a proper torrent client, the choice is between those two. Torrex and Torrent RT are both actual, fully fledged torrent clients. ![]() The disadvantages are that you need a torrent client running somewhere and that the files aren't stored locally on your tablet. The advantage of that is you don't burn your Surface's battery and you can use a stable, wired internet connection for your torrenting. I have Transmission (torrent client) installed on my router (router has a USB port with a HDD connected) and I can use my tablet with one of those types of apps to control the client wherever I am. ![]() The downloading and uploading doesn't happen on your tablet, it's just a front-end. Depends what you want the app to do - the majority of "clients" on the store are apps that connect to an actual torrent client running somewhere else (e.g. ![]()
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