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Old November 23rd, 2005
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The simplest way t advertise for Phex is to go to the News-Site featuring Phex and to rate it.

(Following URLs taken from Phex-URLs (where to turn for Infos))

News- and Update-Sites featuring Phex:

On Versiontracker you can find Phex by following this URL:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26478

News about OSX-Updates of Phex in German can be optained at MacTechNews.de:
http://mactechnews.de/index.php?function=10&id=3041

On MacUpdate you can find it here:
http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/19449

If you know any more Sites featuring Phex or some resources I missed, please post them!

Also helpful is to post any small Feature-Request which comes to your mind in a seperate RFE at Sourceforge. The same goes for Bugs:

Project: http://sf.net/projects/phex
Bugs: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?grou...21&atid=388892
Feature-Requests: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?grou...21&atid=388895

Also you can contribute in the Wiki or post in your favourite forum.

The most noteable features of Phex include (as taken from teh phex.org site -> Features):

(Phex is a file sharing program running on the Gnutella Network. It will run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and other operating systems supporting Java 1.4.)

Phex is a FREE of spyware and adware
Phex never containd any kind of spyware, adware or any other kind of bundled software. (Softpedia award)

Multi-plattform support
Whether you use Windows, MacOS X, Linux or Solaris Phex is able to run on them all. All you need is a operation system that offers a Java 1.4 Runtime Environment.

Multi-source downloads (Swarming)
Often the file you like to download is available on several different hosts. Phex will request different segments of the file from each host in parallel. After successfully downloading a segment Phex will merge it with the other segments of that file. This results in a much higher download speed. If a host is too slow the segment is split during download and given to another host. To make sure you never run out of hosts Phex is able to find new download hosts by itself with the automatic search functionality and features the Download Mesh.
You can choose for each download whether the segments should be chosen according to their availability (rarest first, BitTorrent-Style), their place in the file (earlier segments first, useful for previewing the file) or randomly.

Advanced configuration options
Phex offers very advanced configuration options. Much more than many other clients can offer. Especially advanced user can configure Phex according to their needs and are able to tune and see the effect of different settings.

Passive searching and snooping for files
With the passive search functionality Phex is able to constantly monitor the traffic that goes through the network and collect search results that match your passive search term. Also Phex snoops the traffic for new download candidates you need to finish your downloads faster. This type of searching is also useful for longtime monitoring of available files on the network.

Other features include:
Multiple searches.
Ultrapeer and compression technology for reduced bandwidth.
Integrated chat.
Browse host support.
Bitzi metadata lookup.
MAGMA support.
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