Wednesday, March 16, 2016

uTorrent Remove After Torrent Finish with Python

1. Download Remover.py

2. Enable Web UI

Preferences > Advanced > Web UI > check Enable Web UI.

3. Disable Web Token Auth

Preferences > Advanced > webui.token.auth *false.

4. Set authentication to use: admin / admin.

5. In uTorrent preferences, enter c:\pythonw.exe remover.py in run this program after a torrent finishes


** See how to run in a batch with other programs

Sunday, February 28, 2016

uTorrent download subtitles with python after torrent finishes

1. Install Subliminal

2. In uTorrent preferences, enter subliminal download -l en "%D" in run this program after a torrent finishes


** See how to run in a batch with other programs

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

uTorrent download notification in PushBullet + python

1. Create API key on PushBullet site under account settings

2. Install pushbullet.py

3. Create a file called push.py with the following:


import sys
from pushbullet import Pushbullet

api_key = "API_KEY"
pb = Pushbullet(api_key)
pb.push_note("Downloaded", sys.argv[1])


4. In uTorrent preferences, enter "push.py" %N in run this program after a torrent finishes


** See how to run in a batch with other programs

Saturday, January 30, 2016

PotPlayer: MUCH better alternative to VLC/MP-HC

I used to use VLC and Media Player Home Cinema (MP-HC) as external players for Kodi/XBMC.

Both of those have their short-comings:

MP-HC: When playing videos at a faster speed, subtitles get out of sync. And sometimes the audio as well, depending on the file.

VLC: Gives me gray screens when playing at a faster speed or fast forwarding on >= 720p files. I tried a bunch of solutions but nothing worked.


Enter PotPlayer. Works fantastically, without the above listed issues!


Monday, January 4, 2016

Hard drive stress test (setting up new computer)

Full test: Western Digital Lifeguard Tools

1. Run an extended test
2. Write zeros
3. Run another extended test

Do a quick format

Run a surface test: Macroit Disk Scanner


** Tests can take several hours depending on size of drive

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

uTorrent WebUI causing high CPU usage

After upgrading to the latest version of utorrent (3.4.5), I noticed a big spike in CPU usage and unresponsive desktop GUI when uTorrent AutoLabeller (uAL) was on.

When I turned it off, the desktop client became responsive again when I closed uTorrent Autolabeller, and the CPU usage went down as well.

After fiddling around for a bit, I realized this only really becomes an issue if the uAL is monitoring uTorrent to stop/remove completed torrents.
Changing that setting to "N" fixed the issue.


* In order to remove torrents automatically, I have it set to run a script after the torrent finishes.
uTorrent > Options > Preferences > Advanced > Run after torrent finishes.
This causes a high CPU usage as it accesses the same WebUI url but it's for a brief period in time till the script finishes running.

The issue seems to be with WebUI.

Friday, November 13, 2015

bookmarklet to nuke elements from page

Drag this link (Nukeit) to your bookmarks bar.


It will allow you to easily remove unwanted elements from the webpage.

Not mine. Grabbed from somewhere on the interwebs

A simpler readability bookmarklet

than the (slower) official one

Drag this bookmarklet (Readability) to your bookmarks bar



UPDATE: Readability has shut down it's service.
An alternative is to set up your own readability clone