Image Credit: Sharp World

Features:

• Quick launching of applications
• Long battery time – but this could be affected by your usage. If you watch videos or listen to music a lot, this is going to be lessened.
• Touch screen LCD and keyboard. Your input is not limited to the keyboard. I suppose that a touch screen will come in handy compared to a touchpad because of the small size of the gadget. It will end up being easier to touch the screen to move a cursor. At the same time you will still have a keyboard to type your messages or input your selection, etc.
• You could also create documents if you need them. Although personally, I don’t think it’s going to be practical. Maybe if it’s that urgent and important, yes. But the screen will be too small for comfort.
• Wifi. Yes! Hooray for this. It’s just like having a DSi but better because it has more applications.

And why am I posting it here on New Linux User? It’s because this little baby will use a customized Ubuntu Linux. Sharp customized it so that they could already bundle Firefox, Adobe Flash Lite, Totem, Gedit, etc. on it. Also, because of the tiny screen size, this gadget would need an custom desktop environment or window manager. Interesting, right? It will be released in Japan in late September or around October this year. I hope that I’d encounter someone with it so I could play around with it. It looks more interesting than the Zaurus. Or maybe I am just interested because it’s shiny and new? Either way, I’d love to try something this small when I travel because the long battery life will be beneficial for me. I think that it will also be nifty to store maps on such a small device so that it will be easier to roam around. It won’t be too small for such a purpose, methinks.

In any case, just check it out. It really might be an interesting gadget for those who are more into emailing. But of course, this would be best for those who live in countries which have wifi spots that are open.

Post from: New Linux User

I’ve used w3m time and again because it’s quaint that way. I usually use it as an Emacs macro/extension. It’s nice! I could read webpages while in Emacs, aside from the terminal.

You could look it in Synaptic if you’re using Ubuntu. You could also check it in apt. Or your package manager.

There are really nifty commands from the w3m manual:
w3m [options] [filename|URL] -s — this one is for displaying pages in shift JIS so if you’re viewing a Japanese page, chances are you’d find this good as an option
w3m -T text/plain [filename|URL] — if you want to get the source HTML.

Who says you can’t do anything from the command line when there are so many tools you could use?

Post from: New Linux User