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How To Access Android’s In-built Linux Command Line Shell?

Android Terminal Emulator is an open source project. You can download Android Terminal Emulator tool from Google Play Store. With this app you can access your Android’s built-in Linux command line shell and unleash your inner geek.  This app is not a game emulator. It won’t help you to root your phone or change your phone’s IMIE. To use this app you will be needing to know Linux command line. It is useful for accessing the Linux command line shell that is built into every Android system. It lets you run various Linux command line utilities.

[Also read: Android Shell Command Reference].

Other than this Android Terminal Emulator is useful for any ordinary phone, that hasn’t been rooted. You can access the entire /sdcard file system, install and run Linux command-line applications in the parts of the /data file system that are accessible to the Android Terminal Emulator process. Also you can run command-line programs that access the Internet.

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Access Remote Linux, Windows & Mac Machines Right From Your Chromebook

Chrome OS doesn’t allows you to run any Linux, Windows & MAC programs on your Chromebook machine provides you the power to access your Linux, Windows or Mac desktops remotely. Google Chrome Web Store offers VNC clients the connection to traditional VNC servers. Now Google Chrome has remote desktop features which you may use for accessing your desktop PC right from your Chromebook or to remotely run that rare Windows. application.

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Easy Terminal Commands For Installing Adobe Flash Player In Ubuntu Linux 12.04

Adobe flash player allows you to browse multimedia content online like videos, animations , some flash games and other rich media content etc etc. It supports almost all operating systems like Linux, Mac, Android, Mobile OS, Solaris etc. You can easily install in your Ubuntu Linux, right from terminal by following few simple steps given here.

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Support Keith Curtis To Finish “Software Wars”, A Movie About How We Can All Have Cars That Drive Us Around

Story: The average computer user is unaware there is a war for freedom going on that will determine the path of modern society. Software Wars is a movie about the battle for our right to share technology and ideas.

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How To Check Unread Gmails From Linux Command Line Without Opening Any Browser ?

Here’s a command, if you use Gmail and like to check for unread email without having to opening up a browser. This command makes use of: curl, tr, awk, andsed and looks like:

curl -u GMAIL_ADDRESS:GMAIL_PASSWORD –silent “https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom” | tr -d ‘n’ | awk -F ‘<entry>’ ‘{for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) {print $i}}’ | sed -n “s/<title>(.*)</title.*name>(.*)</name>.*/2 – 1/p”

Where GMAIL_ADDRESS is your actual gmail address and GMAIL_PASSWORD is your gmail password. After successful authentication the sender and subject of your unread Gmail will be printed out.