Imagine you're working or chillin' on your comfy couch and want to take a break and watch a video on the big screen on your desk or on your computer connected TV, but you want to use network technology to switch it on instead of getting up. Than what I'm concerned, this is the easiest way.

Surfraw stands for 'Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Against the WWW'. It's a command-line shell program for interfacing with a big number of web-based search engines. With Surfraw you can search google and wikipedia a.o. from the command line. The results will be displayed with a browser of your choice. I suggest a text browser like links2, to keep it text based. Read more to find out how to install and use it.

Mobile access to your server is not only cool, it comes in handy in a lot of situations. With SSH access from your mobile phone, you can check your emails, logs, box status, irssi, torrents, execute updates, reboot and lots of other things, all on the go. In this short tutorial I will explain how to access and administer a Ubuntu (and any Debian based) server with a not so recent Mobile phone. For this to work, you will need a java supporting mobile device with GPRS enabled (Midp). You will have to install a .jar file of MidpSSH on the device (which you will have to download to your mobile) and install additional ncurses terminal definitions on the server.

This tutorial will explain how to submit track info to last.fm (audioscrobbler) when you use cmus. For those who don't know it, cmus is a text-based music player for unix-like systems and it just rocks!