Galen Grover – Connecticut Web DeveloperSometimes I write things

Today i’m going to tell you how to set up your computer so you can easily manage your torrents from anywhere using your iphone.

Download utorrent and enable web ui

Download utorrent if you don’t already have it. In utorrent go to Options > Preferences > Web UI. Enable Web UI. Set a username/password. Check “Alternative listening port”. I set my port to 8080. If you have a router you will have to open up that port to the public. PortForward.com can help you if you don’t know how to do that.

Get a dyndns account

This makes it so you can go to a url like name.dyndns.org to go to your computer instead of having to go to your ip (which can change).

Sign up for an account at http://www.dyndns.com. When you get the activation email click the “Create a dynamic DNS host within our Free domains” link. Hit “get started” and add a new host.

If your router doesn’t support dyndns, you’ll have to download the client so that your computer updates dyndns with IP changes.

Visit your domain on your iphone

Go to domain:port/gui with your iphone (replacing domain and port with your information). You should be presented with a login screen. Input the username/password you chose in the web ui configuration.

That’s it!!!

For a better iphone interface go to http://www.davidraso.com/utorrent-iphone/ and follow the directions

Pushing Gmail to my blackberry was annoying. While it hit my inbox very quickly, I found the drawbacks far outweighed the only advantage.

• The Blackerry mail interface is terrible.
• Having all my message (email, texts, missed calls, voice mails) in one place is annoying.
• Reading a Gmail message on your Blackberry does not mark it as read in your Gmail inbox. Deal breaker!

Using Gmail for mobile 2.0 is a much better option.

• Everything you can do in your Gmail inbox you can do on the Gmail mobile app including searching, adding stars/labels
• Gmail for mobile notifies you when you have new messages

The only drawbacks I’ve found are that Gmail for mobile only checks for new mail every 20 minutes or so, and if the Gmail app has focus you won’t be alerted of new emails. If you send Gmail to the background the latter isn’t an issue.

To install it visit m.google.com/mail in your Blackberry browser.

Here are some of the more useful shortcut keys:

i = inbox (if your viewing the inbox i will refresh)
/ = search
c = compose
shift+i = mark as read
shift+u = mark as unread
#,d,delete = Delete
s = toggle star
e = archive
! = report spam
z = undo
t = first conversation (top)
b = last conversation (bottom)

While viewing a mail message

r = reply
a,? = reply to all