[Updated] Download Six Malayala Manorama magazines for free, using simple bash script in ubuntu.

Available magazines to download using this script.

1. Fast Track

Language : Malayalam

Manorama Fasttrack is a complete automobile magazine in Malayalam from the Malayala Manorama Group

2. Karshaka Sree

Language : Malayalam

The monthly that updates the small time farmer on how to continuously improve his produce. Valuable tips are provided on farming methods enriched with research support on scientific irrigation and agriculture to improve returns from the cultivable land.

3. Sambadyam

Language : Malayalam

Sambadyam is a new personal finance magazine in Malayalam from the Malayala Manorama group. Recently Malayala Manorama Sambadyam has become a monthly. The magazine covers features on all aspects of personal finance – including stocks, mutual funds, insurance, and a regular column on Income Tax

4. Vanitha

Language : Malayalam

Vanitha is an Indian magazine published fortnightly by the Malayala Manorama group. Although its name translates to "woman" in Malayalam, it includes articles on a variety of topics, and is not strictly a women's magazine.

5. The Man
Language : English

6. The Week

Language : English

The Week is an Indian weekly newsmagazine published by The Malayala Manorama Co. Ltd. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations,[4] it is the largest selling English newsmagazine in India.

Windows Users :  Follow these instructions to run this script on Micro$oft windows systems. (if you have doubts on how to run this script on your windows PC, make a comment.)


For Gnu/Linux Operating Systems

1. Download the script from here


2. Right click on the downloaded file "MMMagazinesDownload.sh" and select properties from the menu.

3. Go to the permission tab and tick "Allow executing file as program" and close the window.

4. Double click on the file and select "Run in Terminal"

 5. Select the appropriate magazine and go for your tea, as per your interne speed it will automatically download all the files to your desktop in a folder with magazine name and date.

7. Enjoy reading and contribute to FOSS development!

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Regional Languages / Malayalam in Operamini

To enable the regional (Tamil, Mlayalam ,Telugu , Kannada..etc ) language in Opera Mini browser
Supported versions operamini 4.2, operamini 5.1 beta \
If you are using your Opera Mini mobile browser to access regional websites, you might have faced this issue. Instead of seeing the proper regional content (in my case, its Malayalam), you might have seen boxes all over there in that tiny mobile screen. This is because, by default, Opera Mini browser couldn’t be able to render the complex scripts, i.e. regional fonts.

Open the address about:config in your opera mini browser. This will open the browser’s option page.

Scroll down until you see something like this: Use bitmap fonts for complex scripts.

Set the above option value to yes and then click on Save button.

 

Enjoy Malayalam !

That’s it. Now you’ll be able to enjoy the local content from your Opera Mini browser.

Technicalities:

All the web traffic from Opera Mini browser goes through Opera’s proxy servers, which optimize the web content for mobile experience. As I said above, Opera Mini does not have the capability to render complex scripts in mobile. So, by setting the above option, we are letting the Opera’s proxy servers to render the complex scripts as images and send those images to mobile browser. Thus you’ll see the regional content as images, instead of fonts.

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