This is how Mac behaved when we tried to walk him … except after a few minutes Mac freaked out and tossed about like a rogue fire hose.

That’s how long I’ve been running on the same boot before finally succumbing to the incessant bounce of Software Update.

Yep, that’s the Luster Editor on my Dock. Luster & the Luster Editor are well on their way to being on the Mac! This is huge news and I am too excited not to share it with you all. Woot!

Big props are in order for Scott Flynn, he’s a certified badass.

…in beta,

But still released!

I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but I’m MORE than happy to finally ditch Transmission.

EDIT: I’ve had a chance to play around with it… it’s definitely nowhere near as featured as the Windows version, but it’s definitely a good start.  It’s much faster starting up than Transmission, and feels very speedy.  Unfortunately a majority of the private trackers I go to still only support Transmission for Mac clients, but uTorrent for Mac DOES support encryption.

My biggest gripe is with the lack of a pop up or side drawer upon opening a new torrent file to select which files within a torrent you would like to download without starting the torrent immediately.  The mac version comes close, with offering an option to not have torrents start after opening, and it DOES at least give the option to pick and choose which files you would like in a torrent…you just have to open and load the torrent first, then set which ever files you don’t want to “Skip” then manually start the torrent within the application.

As I said though, definitely a terrific start.

http://mac.utorrent.com/beta/