Many times, we need to leave our computers ON in order to finish our Torrent downloads. If it is just one or 2 download jobs, it is fine, but if you have several running at the same time, it may not be easy for you to decide which ones need to start when. So, you work out a whole schedule for them but who has the time and the patience for this? This guide will tell you how to control your uTorrent from work, a friend’s place or even your car!
So, how will we do it? Simple, WebUI (Web User Interface).
Step 1: Enable the WebUI feature in uTorrent.
It is simple in the new versions of uTorrent, but in the old one, you need to press Ctrl+P. Now in the ‘Preferences’ tree, look for ‘Advanced’. On expanding it you will see the option of ‘WebUI’. Check ‘enable Web Interface’ on the right side. It is recommended that you create a password for it, so that the service is not abused by someone else.
Step 2: Check if your port is open to accept incoming connections.
In the status bar below in the main uTorrent window, you will se a green tick mark or a yellow exclaimation. Click that. Now, you will see a button on the lower side of the window saying ‘Test if port is forwarded properly’. Click on this button, and it will open your browser window. There should be a gree ‘OK’ in the browser window. If not, then forward your port from your firewall, or add it as a NAT entry in your DSL router/modem (both for UDP and TCP).
Step 3: Download the WebUI from uTorrent’s website.
Get it here.
Step 4: Install the WebUI.
Open your C: in Windows Explorer. In the ‘address’ field write ‘%appdata%\uTorrent’ (without quotes). Place the webui.zip file in this directory (from the webui_v0.310_beta_2.rar archive).
Step 5: Test the WebUI.
Open your Firefox or Internet Explorer 7 (Internet Explorer 6 is not supported) and type:
http://127.0.0.1:<port_number>/gui/index.html
It will ask for your Username and Password. Enter it, and you will see your Web Interface. Remotely, you will need to enter your IP address instead of 127.0.0.1.
Step 6: For dynamic IP users.
For users with a dynamic IP, we must use a dynamic DNS service, like no-ip.com or DynDNS. After you activate it, you will have to type something like this when you are on a different system:
http://username.no-ip.org:<port_number>/gui/index.html
Step 7: WebUI on your mobile.
For any JAVA enabled phone, you need to get the JAVA application which connects to your uTorrent. Open this link in your JAVA enabled phone.
If your phone is not JAVA ready, download this zip, extract it, inside there is a folder called ‘iphone’ take that folder and place it inside the webui.zip (using WinRAR) that you installed in at ‘%AppData%\uTorrent’ on your PC. Don’t extract the webui zip just add the iphone folder to it. To access this interface you will need to type:
http://yourname.no-ip.com:<port_name>/gui/iphone/i.html
Step 8: Still not enough? How about control them via Facebook?
You can add the Facebook Application from here and log in with your Facebook ID. Fill in the details and you can even control uTorrent via Facebook!
We are done.
That’s it! You have successfully proven yourself to be a control freak! I hope you all enjoyed reading this guide. I guess it will be very helpful to many!
Long time back, Google announced its open mobile platform – The Android. Today, one may get its SDK off their website. Symbian, feeling a threat to their already well established market did the unthinkable. They too made their platform open source. So, in the battle of the 2 open source platforms, which would finally emerge as the winner?
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While Symbian focuses on ease of use and rich features, Android focuses on complete touch functionality with several applications. Till now, Android only has test versions out, which are a little buggy. An official stable release is expected later this year. So who will be the king of the mobile platform?
Personally, I feel that a mobile platform cannot be judged on the basis of emulator performance and sadly that is what I had to work on. I have used Symbian OS since the launch of the 3650. Needless to say it was quite an improvement when compared to my old 3310. The old Symbian OS had several problems, like slow software, somewhat erratic operation. The new one however, is pretty good. It boasts of better performance and stable software.
The Android, which is still in development stages, has some problems at the moment. I couldn’t even figure out how to turn off Google Maps 
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Just when Android was looking to be the leader of the mobile platform, Symbian went open source. This will be a major bump to Android, since Symbian already has a decent market share.
In my humble opinion, it will be very hard for Android to capture the market initially, since the hardware that it uses is somewhat similar to the Windows Mobile Platform, and it does not come cheap! Symbian may continue with their current hardware (eg. ARM in case of Nokia).
Symbian has its own structure, but Android uses the rock solid Linux Kernel 2.6.x. This will definitely invite geeks and technology enthusiasts like us to choose Android over Symbian.
It will be an interesting battle to say the least. Let’s all look forward to it..
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Some time back, Microsoft came out with the then much hyped Windows Vista. Unfortunately for them, it was torn apart and slammed by tech-critics worldwide. We all know the story there.
But recently Microsoft came out with the first Service Pack for their infamous operating system, and proved the famous comment (which said, “Microsoft should release their operating systems with the first service pack!”) true. Vista just became a classic example for the same.
After using Windows Vista for about a week when it was first released, I had sworn to never use it again. Then when I read about Microsoft trying to push Vista by cutting XP off, it made me even more determined to never use it. But eventually after the first service pack release, I decided to give it a try.
The version I use is Windows Vista SP1 Ultimate x64, since that was what all my gamer friends recommended.
After using it for a week, I was surprised it did not crash at all! In fact it was working perfectly, even when I keep Aero interface on all the time. I noticed in the first few days that my DVD burning speeds had actually gone up, and so did my hard disk transfer rates. The IIS 7, which comes bundled with Vista is a breeze when compared to its predecessor. The only problem was that the FTP it uses still came from IIS 6. But you can fix that by downloading the FTP Publisher for IIS 7 from Microsoft.
The best part of Windows Vista is the ease in networking. This is where it simply kills every other operating system. It is extremely easy to start/stop services that one needs. Everything comes with logical explanation.
Instead of the bundled WIndows Defender, I decided to try out Nod32 3.x, which again works much faster in Windows Vista. The bundled Internet Explorer 7 64-bit is very good for browsing sites that you may expect to get trojans from, since most of those do not run on it.
Now, for the negatives. Let me just say it simply – Internet Explorer 7 (32-bit) is simply THE worst web browser that I have come across till date. Replace that with a 32-bit Firefox 3.0.
Windows Live Mail, the successor to Outlook Express isn’t too good either. I decided to replace that with the tried and tested Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.
Overall, Vista SP1 x64 is impressive and very stable. I wouldn’t recommend NOT switching.
Thank you for reading, please do check back for updates.
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