BitLet: A Web-Based BitTorrent Client

So, you’re trying your hardest to maintain a Web-app-only lifestyle, huh? Using an online office suite to get work done? Working with a Net-based photo editing solution for…you know…photo editing? You might even be so die-hard in your remotely-hosted ways that you’ve even decided to snub something so simple as a local IM client for a browser-based parallel, like Meebo. How incredibly stubborn clever of you.

Well, you’ll be happy to know that there’s one more critical genre of the application space that you’ll be glad to know just saw the launch of its first Web-based utility. Mind you, it’s not the greatest thing since sliced bread, but nonetheless, it’s out there.

It’s called BitLet, and, yes, you guessed it: it’s a Bittorrent client.

Java-based and pretty much dead ease to use, BitLet is for those that want their fix of, well, whatever, without having to bother with the management of all the particulars that go into peer-to-peer configuration these days. You know, choosing the right port, throttling bandwidth limits, etc. Because, as it turns out, you can’t make those changes. BitLet won’t let you.

Which is fine. It made its debut only recently, and it is a remote utility, so we should give a shout to its creators simply for bringing the “applet” to our doors, not deriding it for its lack of power or sophistication. Except, well, I can’t help consider the fact that good number of people won’t have entirely pleasing experiences with BitLet because one isn’t able to fine tune the default settings. Those malleable figures we see in our respective preference menus are what make our BitTorrent utilities sing. That BitLet is without such options might very well put it squarely into the realm of good ideas turned less than magnificent solutions.

For now, that is. Surely BitLet’s backers will be adding to this baby of a utility, and soon enough anyone anywhere will be free to download pirated non-copyrighted material at comparable speeds obtainable via those snazzy progs residing on personal drives all around the world. This means you won’t have to lug around laptops every minute of the day if you don’t want to. Whether you’re using your own PC or terminals of a more public designation – those found in schools and libraries come immediately to mind - will make no difference. It’s all the same.

Remember, don’t go doing no bad things with BitLet. You wouldn’t want to give it a bad name, would you?