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showRSS custom TV torrent feeds

ShowRSS rises in the in the wake of the sad demise of FeedMyTorrents (due in part to legal troubles).  ShowRSS works much the same way as FeedMyTorrents.  Where you are given the ability to create combined television show torrent RSS feeds or use any of the pre-existing feeds.  These feeds are already pruned for duplicates and have the ability to filter Proper, Repacks, and HD torrents.

Overall showRSS works much better than FeedMyTorrents ever did.  Creating a custom feed is simple, and the server response time is much improved!  So load up your torrent client and give it a go.

Additional Resources

• ShowRSS
• TorrentFreak post on the demise of FeedMyTorrents

UPDATED** Due to legal issues FeedMyTorrents is no longer an active project.  Check out my post on ShowRSS to find a better alternative.

Looking for a place to get RSS Feeds for your Torrenting needs  Check out http://feedmytorrents.com/.  You can create custom feeds or use the existing clean feeds.

Alternatively RSS torrent feeds can be found from most of the trackers.  Including http://www.mininova.org/

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I had some interesting requirements for my Bittorrent needs.  First I wanted to move everything to my linux mediaserver/fileserver.  So I needed a way to work with bittorrent files without traditional access to the machine.  eg. No screen or windowing system.  This led me to TorrentFlux-b4rt, which is a php based web interface to Transmission client meant to be run on apache servers.  Second I wanted to ability to download torrents automatically from RSS sources using scripting.  This is where the original TorrentFlux had failed me and I went searching.

The following is a gathering of scripts I have found and tested.  Most scripts require that you have access to Cron scheduling and the python scripting language.  And, of course, a bittorrent client that scans a directory looking for torrent files.  I am using these scripts in conjunction with rTorrent (a commandline bittorrent client) as well as TorrentFlux-b4rt on various servers.

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What is Torrentflux-b4rt?

What is Torrentflux-b4rt you say? Torrentflux-b4rt is a sophisticated web-based PHP BitTorrent client based off the original Torrentflux. It allows you to use an old linux server as your happily obedient bittorrent client , while you gallivant around town feeding it torrents. Its greatest feature is freeing you from being constantly connected to the internet while downloading.

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Nice, Simple, Sensible CSS Framework

BluePrint CSS is a nice, simple, and sensible CSS framework. It greatly reduces CSS development time by providing a solid base on which to extend. Really Cool!

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The purpose of document is to demonstrate how to construct a basic LaTeX document. This assumes that you are running from a system that has LaTeX installed. Most Linux distros include or make it simple to install. I wrote an earlier post on LaTeX Resources for Mac OSX.

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LaTeX – A Document Preparation System

I started using LaTeX for its ease of writing mathematical equations and expression. Anyone who has tried fooling with Microsoft Word’s equation editor realizes that it is time consuming, looks terrible, and will agree that there must be an easier way. That way is LaTeX.

LaTeX is a typesetting tool that excels with many types of documents such as academic journals, books, and complex mathematical formulas. One thing that it is great with is keeping track of references and bibliographies.

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zarzax blog engine moved to Wordpress::

Over the last few weeks I decided to move from Drupal to Wordpress. I’ve always liked Wordpress and is near impossible to beat as an Open Source blogging platform.

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