Lime-Wire

A very clean, fresh, user-friendly yet powerful application. A user can immidiately start using it without looking at the Help even once. With search criteria nicely classified in to 5 categories, a classy interface and themes to work with, this software is worth being the no. 1, and it is. Also its the world's fastest growing file sharing program.


Unlike the other programs on P2P concept(like I-Mesh), this one doesn't require you to Sign-Up or Log-In to use their services. It only takes you, a net connection to get going. It has got support for many languages, rather many many of them. Hence, one small 4.5 mb setup file covers all the globe. Its Adult-Content-Filter also deserves a mention, if not a detail.

Also there's a small progress bar at the search window which opens when you are looking for something. And this functionality, according to me, is the best one which caters to the users general sense of patience. My personal experience says that if the progress bar has reached the half of this length, and there's nothing up on the screen, give up hope to expect something in the other half. Instead, try a different name or a different file altogether :-)

A great deal of satisfaction is also offered along with this master-piece by monitoring all the incoming and outgoing traffic. If you are not happy with one, or two or maybe couple of them, simply block them(through a firewall).

Everything has its own positives/negatives and broadband has its own share of them. Positives, all we know. The negatives, probably the only negative that broadband un-willingly gifts us is the "loss of net activity"(I hate it for that). And if you suffer from this problem, then Lime-Wire has something to offer you. Its What's-New service. Click on the "What's-New" button, see the recently uploaded files displayed. Get lost again into the wonderful world of internet. Enjoy.


As already said, everything has its own positives/negatives, and this program too has a darker side. Although one can easily be comfortable with this program, but if he/she is not, lime-wire is not there to help off-line. Maybe lime-wire loves bytes, coming and going.

Also Lime-Wire is a serious security threat to your PC, if you love high speeds. Traditional downloading is three times faster than Lime-Wire, if Fire-Wall is in action. The result, most people shut down their walls, and hence, open up the threat doors.

Lime-Wire's Licence Agreement says that it does not account for any spyware or adware along with it. But a scan by Yahoo anti-spy challenges the agreement by identifying it as an adware. Consequences: Users in dilemma.

Another Flaw: Files exceeding 30 letters is not a cup of tea for this P2P program. And this thing sucks when you are for ill-named drivers and the like.
Rest is fine.





One thing that's bothering me since the first day of my relationship with this program is my inability to classify a service of its namely "Direct-Connect" into a positive or a negative. Using this service, one can directly access the files of another machine if its IP address is known. What do you people say?


My rating :8.5 out of 10
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posted by Siddharth Razdan @ 2:36 PM