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  • TV-Browser – Online Digital TV Guide in Ubuntu

    TV-Browser – Online Digital TV Guide in Ubuntu

    Posted on August 26, 2009 | No Comments
    TV-Browser is a simple Digital TV Guide that supports more than 500 TV channels and 80 Radio stations. TV-Browser collects TV program information from different sources on the internet and presents it neatly as a Digital TV Guide with pictures where there possible (if there are no copyright issues).

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  • Install the Chromium Browser in Ubuntu 9.04

    Install the Chromium Browser in Ubuntu 9.04

    Posted on August 11, 2009 | 7 Comments
    A quick and easy guide on how to install Google Chromium from Subversion in Ubuntu 9.04 AMD64 or i386

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  • Elinks : A fast text mode web browser

    Elinks : A fast text mode web browser

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    If you want to read long web pages and don't like to see the dirty graphics , install elinks. It is available on almost all distributions.
    On ubuntu you can install it as follows

    $ sudo apt-get install elinks

    Once installed , open a console and type elinks. you will get the following




    You can enter a URL and start browsing.

    See the google page below.



    Elinks is basically a console program and can be manipulated form keyboard. ( The mouse also will work ). You can access the elinks menu by pressing escape key. See the screen shot below.



    The elinks browser support most of the modern web features. I enjoy browsing with elinks as it gives me extremely fast response while browsing the net.

    Now let us enable some more features. Press escape and enable menus. Select Setup-> terminal options. Enable Vt100 frames , 256 colors and underline.




    Now try gmail with elinks.



    You can navigate the web page with arrow keys . There are some more short cuts that you can use. Have a look at the menus.

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