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youtube.com - 3/11/2009

Torrent Droid: Winner of Android Bounty Contest (video)

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http://androidandme.com for more detailsThis is a short demonstration of Torrent Droid for Android. It is running on a T-Mobile G1. This is only an alpha v...

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Torrent Droid: Scan Barcodes, Get Torrents
TorrentFreak — Around a month ago, Android-orientated website Androidandme launched ‘Android Bounty’, a new initiative which has led to the creation of nice little torrent app. To find out more, we spoke to Taylor Wimberly from the site. “Android Bounty is a new kind of developers challenge we started for creating applications on Google Android,” he told TorrentFreak. “Users submit ideas which can be voted up by others who pledge money to the bounty. The first developer who delivers a working application is rewarded with the bounty.” Taylor explained the idea is similar to how users promote stories on Digg, except people vote ...

Android app scans barcodes, downloads torrents
Hack a Day — AndroidAndMe is running a bounty program for Android applications. Users can request a specific application and pledge money to be awarded to the developer who delivers the functional app. [Alec Holmes] just fulfilled the first request by creating Torrent Droid. You can use the app to scan media barcodes and then download the ...

Torrent Droid Android App Lets You Scan UPCs, Get Torrents In Return [BitTorrent]
Gizmodo — The full version of Torrent Droid will be out in a month, but this video shows you what you ned to know already. Scan a UPC bar code and the app will search BitTorrent automatically. At least one of the major sites (Pirate Bay, Minonova, Demonoid, etc) should return results, and you can then pick a torrent to send to your PC at home to start downloading. The app is a response to the "Android Bounty", which is an initiative from a few users to band together and offer a cash reward for a torrent app. It got up to an astronomical $90 before Torrent Droid claimed the prize. [Torrent Freak] ...

Android app lets you scan DVD barcodes, then auto-torrents them to your PC
Boing Boing — Wired's Threat Level blog has the story of Torrent Droid, a new Android app that lets you scan DVD-case bar-codes with your phone, looks up the title, and remotely starts a torrent download of the title on your home machine. The use-case on Threat Level is a someone out shopping, shooting bar-codes of DVDs and having them ready to watch when he gets home, but I immediately thought of how useful this would be in conjunction with your personal DVD collection and a media-center PC under the TV. You could just barcode all the DVDs in your living room, have the Media Center torrent them, and box up the discs and stick them under the stairs. Yes, that's still illegal, but it'd be ...