When BitTorrent bought over μTorrent, they promised users that all adverts would be optional. They have, however, made it harder and harder to hide the adverts including now a set of hidden options. Thankfully users have found how to access those hidden options.

Turn off ALL Ads/Featured Content/Bundle Crap in μtorrent/Bittorrent:

Options > Preferences > Advanced

Turn ALL settings to false:

• bt.enable_pulse
• distributed_share.enable
• gui.show_notorrents_node
• offers.left_rail_offer_enabled
• gui.show_plus_upsell
• offers.content_offer_autoexec
• offers.sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled
• offers.featured_content_badge_enabled
• offers.featured_content_notifications_enabled
• offers.featured_content_rss_enabled

Options > Preferences > Hold Shift+F2 while clicking Advanced (Hidden fields)

Turn ALL settings to false:

• gui.show_gate_notify
• gui.show_plus_av_upsell
• gui.show_plus_conv_upsell
• gui.show_plus_upsell_nodes

Source: Forum

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PowerShell is one of Windows’ most underused tools in my opinion. In many cases it rivals if not betters support that bash scripts provide.

If you want to remove the extension of a file (say removing ‘!ut’ from file names), it’s a simple one line command.

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Has anyone ever shared with you hundreds of Google Drive files instead of sharing the directory? It happened to me today and I noticed Gmail clips the HTML part of the message at 102 KB. Usually Gmail provides a way to download all attachments (Google Drive or otherwise) or the ability to save them on your Google Drive from where you can mass download them. If the email is clipped, you can only save a subset of these files into your Google Drive so no mass downloads. Bummer.

It’s simple enough to fix with some Scala magic. First you should

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Have your first look at Microsoft releasing the .NET source on GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/dotnet

Full Linux and OS X support for .NET is coming soon! I hope this also heralds the arrival of Visual Studio for Linux and OS X :)

Yes, you heard that right! I just got notification from the asset management team at ThoughtWorks that IDEA IntelliJ 14 is out and we get free upgrades (since we have an upgrade subscription). If you haven’t seen the features already, you should check it out! It looks like an upgrade worth making, especially since it’s free ;)

So go ahead and upgrade now!

If you don’t mind using Spotify in a browser, you can use Hola Better Internet.

Admittedly, it’s not as cool as using the Spotify client on desktop but it’s certainly a lot simpler (and quicker) than managing proxy settings yourself ;)

Once you get used to the JetBrains suite of IDEs pressing Cmd/Ctrl+W for expanding selection becomes second nature. This leads to closing tabs on most applications such as text editors which is of little consequence since you can train yourself to use a different short cut.

My favourite text editor (Sublime Text) does not have this feature built in but it seems I’m not the only one who misses the expand region feature. Go grab your copy of ExpandRegion by Aron Woost from GitHub with full instructions on how to install on Windows, Linux and Mac.

It’s been a bit over 24 hours of using OS X Yosemite and I’m liking all the UI sugar it’s added. So far, my regular applications work fine after the upgrade but the IDEA based IDE set (IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine etc.) seem to have a problem which has been also reported by IDEA.

Tread lightly. You have been warned!

I recently found Desktoppr, a service which has an insane number of curated wallpapers. What’s even better is that they come with an easy to consume API.

To fulfil my insatiable need for good high resolution wallpapers, I wrote a script to go through the thousands of pages of images they have, find the ones that are “right for my desktop” and download them. I define “right for my desktop” as being at least the same resolution as mine and if higher then the same aspect ratio. If your’s is the same, feel free to use this script

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I recently moved to Pune and of course to a new ISP (Tata Telecommunications in Pune). For strange reasons, images on Twitter wouldn’t load. Also, certain other websites weren’t visible. Simple enough fix was to ensure I wasn’t using Tata’s DNS’ but Google’s.

If you have a 2 level setup (Devices -> WiFi Router -> DSL Modem) like I have here which is something even I’m new too, you should probably need it the DNS on one of the routers (logically would be preferred to be on the DSL Modem). Safe side, do it on both :p

Google DNS

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