With my recent Windows XP project box I have come to love uTorrent. I have always known it to be one of the best if not THE best torrent client for Windows but now have been able to contribute. Even if it’s as little as what I am about to show you, I am glad to help out.

I have always liked being able to add a web interface to programs so that I can access them from wherever I am. Torrent Clients are probably the most useful to have a WebUI for and the people over at the uTorrent Forums have done a very good job at doing that with utorrent. On top of that, David Raso has made an add on for it so that you can easily access it with your iPhone (iphone webui website).

This is a very polished and well written piece of software and does its job flawlessly but I immediately saw that it lacked progress bars. You know, those things that easily let you glance at your downloads and see which ones are further along. So I decided to do something about it.

I opened up the scripts.js file in Mr. Raso’s iPhone folder and started reading through it. Sure enough this guy isn’t new at coding and formats everything I have seen him do very well. So it wasn’t as hard as I would think to make this work for me. An extra function in his javascript file, some simple css formatting and VIOLA! Progress bars!

Now I know these aren’t all Web 2.0 savvy with cool glass looks and rounded corners but they get the job done and don’t look absolutely horrible. Oh, one more thing. I have NOT added any additional files, just modifed them, so to install simply use his instructions.

Download iPhone uTorrent WebUI Mod

The left is his original one, the right is mine. I feel that I can see my torrents much faster.