Utilities::

DuckDuckGo lite

  Search StartPage (line 58) by Ixquick Search Engine

  Simple Wikipedia

  Wiktionary, the free dictionary

  Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

News & Insight::

NPR : National Public Radio   [Text]

  Headlines | Democracy Now!

  ProPublica

  C-SPAN

  NOTUS

  Africa News and video

  The Uganda Monitor

  Euronews and video

  BBC News

  The Guardian

  Google News

  CNN

  Alternet

  The Nation

  Media Matters

  Common Dreams

  Huntsville, AL | al.com

  TOP STORIES | DW

  HuffPost

  TED talks index search

 

Science::

Scientific American

  Nature

  Disease outbreaks

 

Linux, VM, and JS tools & resources::

Virtual x86
(Run Arch Linux, DSL... on the web!)

  Distro Test
(Test a Linux flavour in a browser!)

  JSLinux
(Linux flavours in a browser!)

  Webminal
(Tutorials with screencasts and more...)

  Numcalc
(Text-based calulator - courtesy
of Fabrice Ballard)

 

Miscellaneous::

Lynx usage tips:: m - go back to the main page (the first page, when you run lynx) k - see these short-cut abbreviations p - to print the screen l - list all the urls on the active page n - search for the next occurence of N - search for the previous occurence of u or 4 - go back to the previous doc V - list history during this session ^A or 7 - go to the beginning of current doc ^B or - or 9 or [page up] - view previous page ^E or 1 - go to end of doc ^F or or + or 3 or [page down] - view next page of doc ^L - refresh the screen ! - spawn a shell (type [exit] to return to Lynx) , - run external program(eg: w3m) with current page (q to cancel) / - search within the current doc =================================================== Quick Vi Tutorial:: (Tip: Run "vimtutor" at command shell for a quick guide) ^, $ to move to beginning or end of line resp. j to move down l to move right k to move up h to move left "esc" to enter command mode "a" to enter edit mode, but append after cursor "i" to enter edit mode, but insert at cursor "o" to insert a blank line below cursor "shift-o" to insert a blank line above cursor "dd" to delete line at cursor "4dd" to delete 4 lines from cursor downwards "5-shift-g" to position cursor on line number 5 "x" delete character at current cursor location ":q!" quit without saving ":x" OR ":wq" save first and quit immediately ":w" save file and stay in editor "gg" move to beginning of file "G" move to eof =================================================== w3m usage tips (install w3m, w3m-img)  [Manual]:: o - access the options panel (where display images, text colors, etc... can be toggled) shift-h - to view keymap file with short-cut codes, etc... esc-b - show bookmarks ( ~/.w3m/bookmark.html ) [space] - go down the page b - go back up a page g - go to top of page u - show the url for the highlighted link U - GoTO the url... shift -u - load the edited url (use the up or down arrows to scroll history urls) shift-b - go back to previous page / - search forwards ? - search backwards ^c - stop loading ^a - save to bookmarks ^h - show browsing history shift-t - open a new tab with current doc esc-t - open a panel list of tabs (shift-d to delete a tab) ! - execute a shell command Notes : If dictd and dict-gcide (the English dictionary database) are installed, then use $ dict -d gcide [word-to-look-up-locally] or $ dict [word-to-look-up-on-the-internet] What databases are installed? $ dict -I Install the "English-to-French" and "English-to-Swahili" dictionaries for the "dict server/client" using Synaptic then $ dict -d fd-eng-fra [computer] or $ dict -d fd-eng-swh [computer]