AllPeers - Firefox’s New Killer App
August 22nd, 2006I just installed AllPeers, a new Firefox extension that allows you to privately share files with your friends and family right in your Firefox browser. I haven’t had too much time to test it out, but so far things look good. This could easily become my primary source for sharing files over the Internet. Now I just need to get a few more of my friends on board.
Allpeers is a revolutionary Firefox extension that makes it possible to share pictures, music and video’s within Firefox. The files are distributed using bittorrent. Allpeers is not yet squeezing everything out of bittorrent, but Matthew Gertner from Allpeers told torrentfreak that this will definitely change in the near future.
See the Torrentfreak interview with Matthew Gertner.
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Google Talk now provides file sharing.
August 22nd, 2006 at 1:05 pm
I noticed that in the latest upgrade. I haven’t actually tried it yet, but I’m sure it will come in handy.
A possible reason why this may be more effective/efficient is that it uses the bittorrent protocol allowing you to send out the file to many people at once and once they start downloading it will share the file(s) with the others thereby saving on speed and bandwidth.
August 29th, 2006 at 12:50 pm
Whats wrong with the good old fashioned floppy disk?