Kiwi Alpha: File Sharing at its Best

Tutorial

Kiwi Alpha consists of three pages:

My Media
Here you can experience your downloaded media files. You can launch, delete and rename them. Here you can also specify the enter detailed information about your media.

Search
This is the page you will be using for finding media on the Gnutella and Gnutella 2 network. The Gnutella networks are important peer-to-peer communities on the internet. On the Gnutella networks you can search for all kinds of files: audio, music, video, images, documents and software. When you find a file you like you can start downloading it with a single mouse click.

Transfers
On this page you can monitor your downloads and uploads.

Status Bar
The status bar at the bottom of the program provides you with some basic information: number of connections to the Gnutella networks, number of media files you have, the number of search results found and the number of downloads and uploads.

My Media Page

Kiwi Alpha Media page

To perform the following actions you can also use the context menu (select and right click a file)

Launching a file
Select the file you want to launch and choose Actions/Launch from the menu.

Deleting a file
Select the file you want to delete and choose Actions/Delete from the menu.

Renaming a file
Select the file you want to rename and choose Actions/Rename from the menu.

Editing file details
Depending on the file type you will have several types of information that you can edit.

You can edit the following types of information:

For Audio: title, artist, album, category, language and year.
For Video: title, artist, category, language and year.
For Images: title, artist and category.
For Documents: title, author, category and language.
For Software: title, developer, category, operating system, language and year.

Search Page

Searching for media is very easy.

Before you can start searching for media, you need to be connected to the network (see the first item in the status bar at the bottom of the program).

Enter one or more search keys in the search combo (e.g. britney) or choose a previous search term from the drop down list, choose the desired media type from the media type combo (e.g. Audio) and click the Search Now button.

Once the search results arrive you can start downloading files. To download a file, select it in the listand choose Actions/Download from the menu. All your downloads will appear on the Transfers Page.

Locate files easily in your search results

When you have many search results it can come in handy to search for a specific word. Just enter a word or phrase (e.g. slave) in the text box near the right and click the Find button. The first matching file will be automatically highlighted. Click the Find Next button to skip to the next matching file.

Transfers Page

Completed downloads will automatically appear in your play list. All downloads are resumed when the program starts.

You can perform the following actions on your downloads: pause, resume and cancel.
To boost a download you can choose Actions/Find More Sources For Download from the menu.

If you want you can cancel ongoing uploads.