Using Gmail to search Bit Torrent files

Com­bi­na­tion of Gmail's RSS read­ing func­tion­al­ity and Bit Tor­rent files avail­able through RSS files. So you have no excuse now not to use all that gap­ing stor­age space in your Gmail account.

Microsoft's Out­look 2003 gives users the abil­ity to use Search Fold­ers. Essen­tially this fea­ture allows users to scan their incom­ing email using spe­cific cri­te­ria they pro­vide. Sim­ply a handy fea­ture with­out ques­tion. I thought I'd bor­row from this idea, though, and hook up Gmail to fil­ter out some spe­cific down­loads I reg­u­larly track on var­i­ous Bit­Tor­rent web­sites. So here we go.

First, find a few good RSS feeds for Bit­Tor­rent down­loads. I'm using a feed each from Mininova.org, Rokanova.org, and NewTorrents.info.

Next, go and visit the free RSS-to-email ser­vice Rss­Fwd and sub­scribe to your cho­sen feed(s).

Lastly, log on to your Gmail account and cre­ate the appro­pri­ate label(s) and filter(s). For exam­ple, cre­ate a fil­ter based on items that you usu­ally would search for via these web­sites and their feeds. The image exam­ple I've pro­vided shows a sim­ple fil­ter I set up to search for all instances of musi­cal artists that I like. I then have opted to apply a label titled 'Down­loads' to these items when filtered.

Hope­fully with this infor­ma­tion you can get Gmail really work­ing for you. I mean why bother, for exam­ple, search­ing through lit­er­ally hun­dreds of poten­tial down­load items when Gmail can do all the sort­ing? And of course you'll hardly run out of stor­age space either. Joy!

One final step might be to sub­scribe to your Gmail account's incom­ing 'Down­loads' mail feed in your favourite news aggre­ga­tor. There are many to choose from.

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