It won’t be surprising if you hear your pals talking about .torrent files because they have become the popular medium of sharing huge data over the internet such as Softwares, Media files etc. However if you still have not heard about them and want to know what actually .torrent files are, for easy understanding here is the brief definition of Bittorrent files from the Wikipedia:
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and by Ipoque estimates it accounted for approximately 27-55% of all Internet traffic depending on geographical location as of February 2009.
So now you would be interested to learn, How to open .torrent files, Well, there are several softwares out there when you google for them. I however have found Bitorrent application that i also currently use to open any of the .torrent files on my computer. It’s easy Just logon to the site and download the software not to mention it’s FREE software utility.
Once you have installed this software in your computer, all the .torrent files on your computer can be opened with a mouse click and once you click the file it would initiate the download for which the torrent files is made for. Hope this has been helpful !