*Vuze* (formerly known as Azureus) is a bit-torrent client which follows a
similar format to eMule but its makers claim it can offer significant
improvements in terms of hits, download times and navigating available
material. There's no doubt that Vuze offers some *spectacularly fast download
times* but this comes at a price. Mainly the fact that Vuze is extremely
bloated and tries to install two toolbars when you install it. On the upside,
because Vuze is an open source project, there is a *large community of
programmers, designers and users who are continually testing and improving
it* and there's an excellent FAQ. You receive *comprehensive stats* about
every file that's downloaded with Vuze (most of which will mean nothing to
you though) but most importantly it gives you the all important *Estimated
Time of Arrival* and *Share Ratio* which tells you how much of a particular
file you have uploaded or given back to the community. Apparently, in a
perfect world, every file should have a share ratio of two which means for
each file you download, two users download it from you. Possibly the most
notable feature of Vuze, however, is the *media website that's embedded* into
the application. It looks like an entertainment website and that's pretty
much what it is only the entertainment can be downloaded via Vuze. These
include *gameshows, user generated content, sports* and more. Vuze has a
rather overwhelming interface as a result. It's far more bloated than other
P2P clients such as uTorrent and Transmission. It takes some getting used to
at first the upside is that it is much more customisable than most Mac P2P
apps. For example, if you want to configure Vuze to work only with a VPN, you
can do unlike uTorrent and Transmission. *Vuze is generally an excellent P2P
application that may be a bit more bloated than most but works well and has
plenty to offer.*Download *Vuze (Azureus) 4.7.0.0* in Softonic
