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Not too long ago, Transmission, the best torrent client for Mac OS X, hit version 1.0. While a bunch of new features were added into the mix, one of the large ones missing was a web interface for the client.

Windows (and Linux, if you know what you’re doing) torrent client, µTorrent, has had this as an optional feature for quite some time now. Now, thanks to Clutch, you can control your bittorrent downloads from just about anywhere.

Nowadays, the average Mac user has many different statuses he or she needs to update. Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku, Tumblr, and now even your chat status require constant updating and tending to.

Using an old status would just be plain careless now, wouldn’t it? However, constantly traveling to each and every one of these websites and typing in the same one to two sentence status several times is just plain tedious.

With the API release and great developer tools of the social networking site Facebook, more and more people have begun to write desktop programs for the platform. I think those of you who use Facebook will agree that you spend the majority of your time on the site stalking looking at pictures of your friends. Photobook, from Caffeinated Software, is a desktop client for doing just that; seeing all your friend’s pictures in one, well designed application.

Yesterday, the open-source, multi-platform BitTorrent client, Transmission, made it out of beta. Hitting version 1.0, the popular OS X (and GTK) torrent client brought about a handful of changes.

Foremost is the app’s look and feel. Overhauled to match Leopard’s new look, the design is a solid metal grey and sports buttons similar to those on Apple’s Mail 3.0.

In addition to matching the look of Leopard, Transmission is now fully compatible with OS X 10.5. Many numerous bugs have been fixed, including the fact that Time Machine ignores incomplete downloads while making backups.

Twitter, the micro-blogging service, has really taken off since its inception in July of 2006. Users can tell the world what they’re up to at every moment of their day via text messaging, Twitter’s web interface, or through desktop clients. Given that most Twitter users are in fact geeks (readers, be proud!) and spend most of their time at their computers, desktop clients are the most popular. For us Mac users, Twitterific, from IconFactory, has long dominated this market.