It’s only been a week since the last version, but there’s
too much cool new stuff in this upgrade to hold it back any longer! Shareaza sports a brand
new streamlined interface that really kicks arse, plus a bunch of new features that
you won’t see anywhere else.
Easier, faster user interface: Shareaza is now the only P2P software (to our
knowledge) which can offer two different user interfaces so you can choose the one that’s
easiest for you. If you like the familiar “tab” layout with a page for Search,
Library and Transfers, go with it. Or if you want separate windows like the original
Shareaza had, you can use that mode instead. Shareaza suits everyone!
Full Browser and URI integration: Gnutella users have been talking about this for
a long time, and Shareaza brings it to life. You can now place a link on a web page (or
other document) which when clicked will launch or open Shareaza and automatically
search for and download the selected content. It’s that simple! Shareaza supports
P2P standard “magnet:” URIs, along with network specific “gnutella://”
URIs, and several more just in case.
For example, here are two links to the latest Shareaza. If you have it installed, you’ll
be able to click these:
magnet:?xt=urn:sha1:Y32Z6URUUYEY4AGRGGU5DDRCDQXXGVFW&dn=Shareaza1201.exe
gnutella://sha1:Y32Z6URUUYEY4AGRGGU5DDRCDQXXGVFW/Shareaza1201.exe/
Shareaza shows a friendly “what do you want to do with this link” dialog, where you can choose
to download the file directly, or just do a search for it. There’s also a neat new facility
for copying URLs for selected files in your library or search results, where you can choose
the URI format you want and copy it by pointing and clicking. The direct download dialog
is still there, too.
GWebCache support: Shareaza now supports the web-based distributed host discovery
system, for faster and more reliable connections. This is part of the new integrated
discovery services manager which advanced users can access through the
Discovery Services window.
Countless suggestions implemented: Every suggestion for improving Shareaza is noted
and considered. As a result, every new version contains a large number of small changes
which are too numerous to list here, but each add to the power and performance of the
application as a whole. Everything is fine tuned to match users’ expectations.
Intelligent managed searches: Automatic network friendly researching and refinement
produces more search results without “hammering”. Leave a search window open indefinitely
and the results stay fresh. Download source queries are intelligently managed.
More efficient library building: Shareaza now employs a more efficient library
building mechanism when it calculates file hashes and acquires metadata from common file
formats such as asf, exe, gif, jpg, mp3, mpg, wma, wmv, etc.
Smaller download: Shareaza is now only 360K, almost 3 times smaller than it was
before so you can get it faster. The download is also shared by default, to help other
users obtain Shareaza directly over the network.
Get it now at shareaza.com.
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