So you have a PlayBook device and wondering how you can further take advantage of its awesome hardware capability by downloading torrents directly on to the device storage. In this article, I will show you how to very easily side-load a P2P app called ‘PlayTorrent’ and how you can use it to download/share content with friends/family/etc.

Please see the disclaimer at the bottom of this article before you begin. Side-loading the App • Before you can side-load the application, you will need the Java Runtime Environment installed on your PC. You can find JRE. • Next, download the side-loading tools from and extract them on your local machine. Credit goes to Hatax @ forums • Enable developer mode on your PlayBook and make note of the password you use.

You can find the developer mode setting in the: Options –> Security • Next make note of the IPv4 address your PlayBook is assigned. You can find this from Options –> About –> Network • Now go to where ever you extracted the PlayBook Tools.zip and edit the PB-Installer.bat file with your PlayBook’s IP and Password you assigned • Now, on your PC, find the PlayTorrent.bar file (should be in the same directory) drag it over the PB-Installer.bat and release. • A command window should open and install the application That is all! Give it a minute or two and your PlayBook should now be side-loaded with PlayTorrent!

You should see it in the main applications screen. Downloading Torrents Now that you have side-loaded the app, let us download some torrents on to our device!