edit: this post is migrated from my previous blog
Hi all,
This is my first post and i thought I’d share a remote torrenting tip with you all. I’ve been sitting on this for some time and I’m probably not the first person to think of doing this but I was pretty chuffed with it so here goes…

In order to start downloading torrents on your PC/Mac from any computer connected to the web, you will need the following:

Dropbox installed on you target computer.
A BitTorrent client such as utorrent (used for this tutorial) installed and configured the way you like on your target computer.
Once you have all of the above, open your Dropbox folder and create a new subfolder. I called mine ‘Torrents’ but you can call it what you like.
Now open your BitTorrent client and select options>preferences. From the list on the left, select ‘Directories’. Tick both the ‘Automatically load .torrents from:’ and ‘Delete loaded .torrents’ boxes. Now point this part of the configuration to the dropbox subfolder you created earlier.
And that’s it. The setup is complete.
Now so long as you have your home computer running both the BitTorrent client and Dropbox, you can drop a torrent file in the subfolder either by using dropbox on another computer or upload it to the folder using the web interface on the dropbox website, and your home computer will grab the file and start processing it. As an added bonus, you can tell when it has worked by checking that the file has been deleted again from you dropbox folder.

edit:  not the first person to come up with this – lifehacker