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Comment Ubuntu Laptop, Wireless Mouse and ButtonBoard.com (Score 1) 304

by domitron2000 on Saturday March 27, 2010 @03:28PM (#31641860) Attached to: What's the Best Way To Get Web Content To My TV?

I'm using a VGA cable hooked up to my TV from an old laptop running Ubuntu with a wireless mouse. Since I don't have a wireless keyboard, I just made ButtonBoard (http://www.buttonboard.com) my Mozilla homepage. This allows me to do basic surfing and searching by using my wireless mouse to type. I can also use ButtonBoard to type small bits of text that I copy into forms on other tabs. For anything else, I used toolbar shortcuts in Mozilla. I know this is low tech, but it works and takes all of 1 minute to hook up the VGA cable and wireless mouse.

What's the Best Way To Get Web Content To My TV? 304

Posted by Soulskill on Friday March 26, 2010 @12:24PM from the voodoo-magic dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems like there are a lot of options for getting web content onto our TVs, but which one is the best way to go? Being able to stream videos (especially through sites like Hulu), check out social networking sites, and read news would be awesome to do from my couch. Currently, I hook up my laptop to the TV, which works, but it's annoying, especially if I want to use my laptop while I am watching some videos. Some things that are important to me are: connecting to my HDTV, allowing me view anything I could in a web browser as if I were on my computer, and being easily controlled from the couch. What setups do you guys use, or what would you like to use?"

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