The price of privacy is… slow connections. Or at least that’s the idea you get when putting the Tor software to good use.
I wouldn’t recommend it for major downloads, and interactive uses like an ssh or telnet session are not very practical, but if you’re browsing a website and think it’s none of their business to know that it’s you, that’s a sensible application. Ditto with IM, where some protocols reveal your real ipnumber more easily than others. If you can re-route their traffic this way, that can cause stalkers to look for you in the entirely wrong place. 
So aside from Tor you’ll want some of the following packages:
Combining one or more of these you can wrap most programs that are otherwise completely unaware of Tor’s existence.
While in theory it would be possible to wrap the BitTorrent protocol with proxychains, in practice there seem to be a few obstacles that make it not very practical, for instance because you cannot reach your peers/seeds. I haven’t researched this (yet) so I may be talking complete and utter nonsense here.
All in all a fun experiment, though. To log into a (friendly) computer and see that you appear to have logged in from, say, Finland, can be quite amusing. 
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