26th of October, 2009
As mentioned in my previous post I promised to explain how you can create Prowl push notifications using rTorrent and Prowl 4 Linux. It’s actually a variation of the rTorrent download log script that I talked about on in a earlier post. Instead of logging to a file, we are sending a prowl notification using the $d.get_name variable. Keep on reading
26th of October, 2009
rTorrent has got to be one of the best torrent clients out there, especially for linux. It’s flexibility really shows when you get down to the nitty gritty in .rtorrent.rc. I for example wrote a script that logs every download that has been completed to a text file, so that I can review all what I’ve downloaded instead of trying to remember. I shall explain how I did this in this post. Keep on reading
26th of October, 2009
Prowl must be one of the best apps that is currently offered on the iPhone. It offers push notifications which can be very easily implemented in a application thanks to the handy API. From the website:
“Prowl is the Growl client for the iPhone OS. Notifications from your Mac or Windows computer are sent to your iPhone or iPod touch using push. Prowl has an extensive API, which allows your scripts to integrate beautifully.”
Mac and Windows is nice but it doesn’t mention Linux support. It does however offer a host of libraries that allow easy integration into your project, but no real app. Until now. Keep on reading