Multi-Search3
Showing posts with label Slow Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slow Internet. Show all posts

Five Quick Suggestions For No-Nonsense, Superfast Text Browsing!



Sick and tired of image and multimedia overload in everyday browsing and want to skip images for a while but need to read the text at the same time? Travelling and stuck with low bandwidth? Researching reference sites and need text browsing by choice? There may be a hundred and one reasons, but let us set out to find a few easy ways for text browsing.

1.GOOGLE SEARCH PAGE


Select [CACHED OPTION] from the pulldown menu at the end of the second line of every search page result and then click on [TEXT-ONLY VERSION] to view the text-only version of the page. If you know the address of the website, you can first type cache:www.website.com and then select the [TEXT-ONLY VERSION] from the top-right.

2.CHROMIUM 12.0[LINUX]

Chromium


Select [DO NOT SHOW ANY IMAGES] radio button from the SETTINGS wrench with the tool tip "customize and control chromium"->[PREFERENCES]->[UNDER THE HOOD]->[PRIVACY]->[CONTENT SETTINGS]->[IMAGES].

3.FIREFOX 13.0[LINUX]

FireFox
Uncheck the [LOAD IMAGES AUTOMATICALLY] checkbox on the [CONTENT] panel from [EDIT] Menu->[PREFERENCES].

4.OPERA 11.60[LINUX]

Opera

Select [NO IMAGES] from the [IMAGES] pulldown menu from the [Opera] button on the top left->[SETTINGS]->[PREFERENCES]->[WEB PAGES] tab.

NOTE: Differences in browsers, browser versions and the Operating systems mentioned above and the others that aren't, may mean slightly different changes in locations and labels.

5.LYNX[Linux/Win and others]

Lynx

Okay, having the newer browsers covered, let us spend the rest of the article
with the CLI[command line interface] of the slightly older Lynx Text Browser to
get to the text or html versions of a web page and also get lists of links within
the same page.

DOWNLOAD THE LYNX BROWSER


First download the lynx browser from http://lynx.browser.org. Lynx 2.8.7 runs
on Un*x, MacOS, VMS, Windows 95/98/NT, DOS386+. I use it with Puppy Lucid 5.1 Linux on my Toshiba Satellite laptop. Once we have downloaded and installed the Lynx browser, we can browse the text version of the websites on the web with the default program or we can also use the CLI to get things done from the commandline like we do in this article. Once we have the address of the web page, we can use the -base, -dump, -listonly and -nonumbers options of the lynx CLI to get things going. I am using the geany text editor on my linux system to view the results of the lynx command for this article. Use a text editor , location and filenames of your choice.

TYPICAL USES OF THE LYNX COMMAND

cd /tmp

USAGE1: Get the pure html source of the webpage
lynx -source "http://www.sqlhtm.com/About.htm">lynx.txt; geany lynx.txt

USAGE2: Get the text of the webpage with numbered links, no images[image tags only]
and lists of reference and hidden links at the bottom
lynx -dump "http://www.sqlhtm.com/About.htm">lynx.txt; geany lynx.txt

USAGE3: Get the lists of links in the webpage only[no text or images]:
lynx -dump -listonly "http://www.sqlhtm.com/About.htm">lynx.txt; geany lynx.txt

USAGE4: Get the lists of links only without link numbering and without text:
lynx -dump -listonly -nonumbers "http://www.sqlhtm.com/About.htm">lynx.txt; geany lynx.txt

USAGE5: Get the text of page and the links at the bottom but disable the link numbering
lynx -dump -nonumbers "http://www.sqlhtm.com/About.htm">lynx.txt; geany lynx.txt

USAGE6: Get the text, link lists at bottom with numbers from webpage with no images[only image tags]
lynx -dump -base "http://www.sqlhtm.com/About.htm" >lynx.txt; geany lynx.txt

USAGE7: Get the text with no images[only image tags] and no lists of links at the bottom:
lynx -dump -base "http://www.sqlhtm.com/About.htm"|sed 'References/,$d' >lynx.txt; geany lynx.txt
[sed note: valid as on may2013]

GETTING LINKS FROM GOOGLE SERP[Search Engine Results Page] FOR THE LYNX CLI USAGE SUCH AS ABOVE



CASE1: CLEAN LINK ON THE SECOND LINE BELOW THE TITLE LINE

If we have a good link with a clean format such as http://www.sqlhtm.com/About.htm, we'll have absolutely no problems but if we're going to depend on google search for links, we might get lucky or unlucky depending on what the SERP[search engine results page] deigns to provide us. Look at the image above and consider the two cases below. First we have some results with a clean web address on the second line of the result below the top title line such as the one below. We can grab this just like it is and use it without changes.

EXAMPLE

Sed Command in Unix and Linux Examples
www.folkstalk.com/2012/01/sed-command-in-unix-examples.html‎


CASE2: MESSY LINK TO CLEAN UP FOR LYNX CLI USAGE

While an address such as the one above is what we want, oftentimes we run out of luck and end up having to rightclick on the title and select the [copy link
address] option to get a really messy google-formatted link with characters that
need to be cleaned up so the link is acceptable to the lynx command line deity.
To do this, we need to delete a portion at the beginning of the messy address,
delete another at the end, and also replace the code [%3A] with colon [:] and [%2F] with forward slash [/] in the reminder of the address.

EXAMPLE

Linux / Unix: sed Command Print Only Matching Lines - nixCraft
www.cyberciti.biz/.../unix-linux-sed-print-only-matching-lines-comman...‎


Do you notice the three dots from hell leading to nowhere in the middle and also at the end? This is no good. So we'll rightclick on the top title link and select the [copy link address] option to get an equally-lousy-if-not-worse address below.

http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=Sed+Command+in+Unix+and+Linux+Examples&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CE8QFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyberciti.biz%2Ffaq%2Funix-linux-sed-print-only-matching-lines-command%2F&ei=_IOHUdT3IILqrQfiu4CgDg&usg=AFQjCNEpchgcEfzvOIjMDj0bLJhdPyrSig&sig2=UFZgetDwLrizo9LQ0Km5jQ

Lynx CLI hates this address, throws an error message! Deciphering this address
is not rocket science but everyone can only have so much patience for things of
this sort, don't you agree? Let us keep moving and finish cleaning up this scary
mess as much as we can.

1.Delete from the beginning all the way upto [URL=].
ie. Delete this from the beginning [http://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=Sed+Command+in+Unix+and+Linux+Examples&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CE8QFjAE&url=]

2.Delete everything from &ei till the end of line.
ie. Delete this at the end of the address:
[&ei=_IOHUdT3IILqrQfiu4CgDg&usg=AFQjCNEpchgcEfzvOIjMDj0bLJhdPyrSig&sig2=UFZgetDwLrizo9LQ0Km5jQ]


3.Replace [%3A] with [:] and [%2F] with forward slash[/] in the leftover address.
In this step, we start with address [http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyberciti.biz%2Ffaq%2Funix-linux-sed-print-only-matching-lines-command%2F] and
end up with the address[http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-sed-print-only-matching-lines-command]

There, we got what we needed, a really clean lynx CLI-acceptable address!
Using this address in any of the several ways above, we can get what we want - the html or text version of the page with or without the links on the page!

REDIRECTS

If the link we are using is a redirect, then we may not get the text of the
page at once, but only an alternate link in the output of the lynx command. We need to run the same lynx command again with this redirect link and then we will get the required text source of the page.

FINAL WORD

While a picture may be worth a thousand words, it is nice to be able to be content with words for a change, at least once in a while, at least considering the useless, bloated, unhealthy or harmful images on the net! But dude, I know where you are headed right after reading this - right back to your G+s, pinterests and tumblrs, but really can't blame you. Who'd want to stay with text only other than those stuck with dial-up or slow internet?

Are Your Image Tweets Erroring Out? Stop The Fast Finger Syndrome!

Image Credit: Ocal-clker.com

PROBLEM

You managed to get that lucky, hard-to-get, once-in-a-blue-moon image captured on your cell phone. Or you just found a really funny or interesting image somewhere on the web and can't wait to share it with the world.

So you start your twitter session, press the image button from the tweet window to select the image from the hard disk and press the tweet button and are  greeted by the "Error creating status" or the "tweeting a photo timed out" errors!

Not just once or twice, you have been trying a number of times always ending up with those darn errors!

Here is the fact: Text tweets almost always get tweeted at once except during severe server load periods. But image or media tweets add extra burden to the tweet with their size. A small image with a few KB size may get by easily whereas huge images and videos are sure to take a few seconds to a few minutes for the upload to server to complete! So, what now?

SOLUTION

Curb your enthusiasm, dude! Stop your fast fingers and try this first!

If your image tweets error out with the above errors, first select the image from the hard disk, WAIT A FEW MINUTES till the data transfer icon in the system tray stops blinking if you have one, which means that the image has fully been uploaded, and then press the TWEET button for a successful tweet! This applies to most image uploads on slow internet but may also apply to bigger image or video uploads even on faster bandwidth!



"Got slow internet and image tweets erroring out? Go slow, wait till the image has fully been uploaded, and then press the TWEET button!"



BlogCollage


Blog Collage - Top Random Posts In No Particular Order

Mouseover the images for title and comments