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If you always seem to miss your favorite TV show, forget to set your DVR, or simply want to watch it on your computer rather than on TV, then here’s the solution.

This program called Torrent Episode Downloader (or TED for short, pretty straightforward name) is easily the best auto-torrent downloader out there. You just add what shows you want, and it will automatically know when the next episode is airing, and scan all the popular torrent sites that day until it finds the torrent. Upon finding it, it’ll send it straight to your BitTorrent client (see our previous post of How To Use BitTorrent if you don’t have BitTorrent set up on your computer or you don’t know what it is).

Best of all, TED has been so reliable that for the past 3 months that I’ve used it, every episode had started downloading 15 minutes after it finished airing realtime. I always get the correct episode (no fakes, etc) and it automatically updates itself to look for the next episode once it finds the current one. That way, you just put in what shows you want once, and let TED be.

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So, you’ve heard about this thing called “BitTorrent”, and have no idea what it is. You want to download various things, such as songs, software, movies, tv shows, etc, but don’t know how to get started. Here’s a detailed guide on how to get BitTorrent savvy in just a few minutes.

BitTorrent is a file sharing protocol, but you don’t need to concern yourself with how it works. What you do need to know, however, is how to use BitTorrent. To use it, you need a BitTorrent client. This guide will be using the client uTorrent (v 1.8.2), a free, open-source client that many people say is the most secure, lightest, and easiest client out there.

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