uTorrent’s Vista Sidebar Gadget

Written by Ernesto on May 07, 2007 

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 gadgetThe 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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26 Mar 06, 2008 at 07:27 by stu

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

27 Mar 07, 2008 at 01:09 by 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/

28 Mar 29, 2008 at 01:51 by mauno

thanks

29 Apr 27, 2008 at 19:32 by 3D

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

30 May 19, 2008 at 11:45 by 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….

31 Jul 10, 2008 at 09:30 by Joaquim Rendeiro

«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. »

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/06/27/8659071.aspx

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