uTorrent’s Vista Sidebar Gadget

This new gadget for uTorrent allows you to monitor and handle your .torrent downloads from Vista’s sidebar. The gadget works in combination with the uTorrent WebUI, an extension that inspired many people to develop useful and innovative gadgets.

utorrent webui vista gadget The widget shows the current upload and download speed in the sidebar. The flyout shows all the torrents you’re downloading, and detailed info like the number of seeds & peers, ratio, availability, download & upload limit, and much more.

But the gadget is not limited to listing information, you can also:

- drag & drop to add new torrents
- start, stop pause torrents
- set priority for individual files

It’s based on the “Azureus stats” gadget for Windows Vista, but has some extra features. The WebUI works on 32-bit as well as the 64-bit Vista, and it has a auto update function.

utorrent vista sidebar gadget

The sidebar gadget will only work if you run the uTorrent webUI. The WebUI makes it easy to access uTorrent from an external computer, and it opens up a world of possibilities for uTorrent users to create fancy widgets, scripts, and other add-ons.

To enable the webui go to Options –> Preferences –> Advanced –> WebUI, and enter you details there. There is also FireFox extension available for the WebUI.

The latest Beta of the Vista sidebar gadget for uTorrent can be downloaded over here. You can track the latest updates, or post your questions and suggestions in the thread over at the uTorrent forums.

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Rodolpho Brock

Hi your firefox extension is death.
Plz seed again
http://torrentfreak.com Ernesto

[quote comment="97449"]Hi your firefox extension is death.
Plz seed again[/quote]
Try this one!
Rodolpho Brock

Thanks it works.
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diesel

Good idea and some nice work,just a pity it doesnt to be able to keep up with the client, plus is also showing files and downloading but have been seeding for 2weeks +
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Ricky

Wow! I didn’t know about this gadget until now, and I’m glad I found it on your site! It’s GREAT, just the kind of thing I needed, because I have a personal home server that I keep online and running all the time, so now I can keep track of it on my main computer!

Thanks!
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Spencer Ferguson

Good app. I look forward to seeing an updated and improved version for Windows Vista soon!

-SF
http://www.wasatchsoftware.com/microsoft/business/windows-vista.htm
RoDmAsTer

the ideia is great but i can get it to work…can someone show me the steps pls! whats webUI ip? THX
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jme621

Rodmaster,
got this from the utorrent forum:

Go in ÂµTorrent to options->preferences->Advanced->WebUI, and there you enable the webinterface set a username, a password (and a port if you want to choose the number yourself)

Do this at the PC you’re running ÂµTorrent on.

The gadget you can run on the same computer or another one, that is connected to the one running ÂµTorrent

If you run it on the same computer the ip/url will be 127.0.0.1
if you run it on a remote computer the ip/url will be the ip of the computer running ÂµTorrent wich you can find by doing this on the computer with Âµtorrent: start->run->cmd->ipconfig.

Hope you’ll be able to set it up
muckthat

how do you use this? i added it to my sidebar and i only see some tiny piece of it.. here’s a screenshot http://i14.tinypic.com/6h2ux00.jpg — can anyone help?
Trent Morris

[quote comment="110912"]how do you use this? i added it to my sidebar and i only see some tiny piece of it.. here’s a screenshot http://i14.tinypic.com/6h2ux00.jpg — can anyone help?[/quote]

Just remove the gadget from the sidebar and re-add it, you should then see the full view. Works like a charm. Cheers.
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Looove this Gadget

It took me a while to get it working. Finally i figured out that even if I leave the port at 8080 i still had to check the box in uTorrent advanced that says alternative listening port. I think because my uTorrent port is a different one set up for forwarding. Dunno if this helps anyone else out there. If it doesn’t work keep trying, it’s SICK when it does!!
Jordan

Hey, guys …
I have one question. Everything is working fine with the WebUI in the torrent program and in the IE 7. I can open and access it from the browser and everything’s fine. But I can’t do the settings in the gadget so that it can work properly. No matter what I write in the Gadget’s settings it keeps telling me: “Error, check settings”. I can’t realy understand what the “Part between ‘http://’ and ‘:PORT’” is. And if I write in the WebUI URL the URL address shall I write it as I write it in the IE (a.k.a. http://MYIP:PORT/gui) or just the IP/gui and in the WebUI Port tab to put the port. I’m a little bit confused about that. I tryed everything but it still keeps telling me to check the settings.
Any suggestions, please ?
Google

I Think,Ä°t is very nice information…

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stu

Jordan, I’m having the EXACT problem. This is really starting to piss me off…
Bil

There is a new uTorrent Gadget from Morrent which come out this week. Also has installation steps if you need help installing it.

http://gadget.morrent.com/
mauno

thanks
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Hello – I just wanted to say you are welcome to upload the Vista gadgets on our site http://www.gadgetsdownload.com , we try collect a lot of good once. another a great site here for gadgets build beginners thanks
Sparky

Spent ages trying to get this gadet to work thanks for the post about checking alternative listening port i had left it unchecked as i could see 8080, once checked worked like a charm,great gadget thanks….
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Â«Once you take it apart, the bits of the GUID break down like this:

* 60 bits of timestamp,
* 48 bits of computer identifier,
* 14 bits of uniquifier, and
* six bits are fixed,

for a total of 128 bits. Â»

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