We all know and love Ubuntu around these parts thats why this tidbit caught my eye. There were a few apps here I had not used before. I grabbed this list from Little Ubuntu who found it on the Ubuntu Forums so this may not be new to you but I found it incredibly useful and here it is:
After spending some time on the offical Ubuntu Forums I came across this awesome thread which let users post applications they thought were
noteable but were rarley mentioned. The only problem was it was 40+ pages of
content. So in turn i decided to make a post with these applications that anyone
can read in just one page or post. Enjoy
AUDIO/VIDEO
BUSINESS
GRAPHICS
INTERNET
OTHER
SYSTEM
AUDIO/VIDEO
Hydrogen
An advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It’s main goal is
to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum
programming.
EasyTag
A utility
for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack,
Monkey’s Audio and WavPack files.
youtube-dl
A
small command-line program to download videos from youtube.com It requires the
Python interpreter and is not platform specific.
Cowbell
An elegant music organizer intended to make keeping your collection tidy both fun
and easy. Cowbell can also snatch album art and rename your music like a pro.
“You gotta have more cowbell”
ZynAddSubFx
A opensource synthesizer capable of making a countless number of of instruments.
Project started in 2002 and seems to be maintained up until
2005.
BUSINESS
KeyJnote
Displays presentation slides but unlike openoffice impress or other similar apps, it does so ith style. Smooth alpha-blended slide transition are provided for the sake of
eye candy + some very unique tools.
Meld
A visual diff and merge tool. You can compare 2 or 3 files and edit them in place. You can compare 2 or 3 folders and launch file comparisons.
Basket Note Pad
A multi-purpose note taking application that can easily take all sort of notes.GRAPHICS
Agave
A very simple application for GNOME desktop that allows you to generate a variety of colorschemes from a single starting color. It is free and licensed under the GPL
license.
Feh
Simple image viewer at first glance but Feh has numerious features including:
Simple image viewing, slideshow, fullscreen, index print creation, thumbnail browser, background setting, in-place editing
gcolor2
A simple color selector that was originally based on gcolor, ported to use GTK+2 and how has a complely new UI.
Xara Xtreme
Powerful general purpose graphics program based on Xara Xtreme for Windows. Vist the website for more details.INTERNET
Links2
Graphical and text mode
internet browser. It displays tables, frames, downloads on background, uses
HTTP/1.1 keepalive connections and features Javascript. It graphics mode it
displays PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF and XBM pictures, runs external bindings on others
types, and features anti-aliased font, smooth image zooming, and aspect radio
correction.
Deluge
A
bittorrent client, created using Python and GTK+ that is intended to bring a
native, full featured client to GTK desktop environments such as GNOME and
XFCE.
Ontv
A gnome applet that
uses xmltv files to monitor current and upcoming tv
programs.
Torrent
Flux
TorrentFlux
is a FREE PHP based Torrent client that runs on a web server. Manage all of your
Torrent downloads through a convenient web interface from
anywhere.
R
Torrent
An
ncurses based command line torrent manager. Nuff Said
hellanzb
hellanzb
is a Python application designed for *nix environments that retrieves nzb files
and fully processes them. The goal being to make getting files from Usenet
(e.g.: Giganews Newsgroups) as hands-free as possible. Once fully installed, all
thats required is moving an nzb file to the queue directory. The rest; fetching,
par-checking, un-raring, etc. is taken care of by
hellanzb.
juploadr
A
cross platform, cross-site Photo uploader. Currently supporting Flickr and Zoomr
it allos you to set all properties of a photo before you upload
it.
centericq
Text based and
window driven IM interface that supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN,
Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols. Great IM tool if you can’t login to your
x-system.
OTHER
Stellarium
Stellarium
is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in
3D, just like what you would see with the naked eye, binoculars or a
telescope.
GNU Solfege
A
free music education software. Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scall and
chord skills. Smarten your ears!
Grism
Grism
is an open source stock market observation tool. It allows you to easily track
the evolution of stock prices through watchlists, portfolios and charts. Grism
uses Yahoo! Finance for its quote data.
dvdisaster
This program
will salvage all readable data off a damaged or corrupted dvd or cd and make an
iso file so you can put that salvaged data onto a non damaged media
source.
xdesktopwaves
Cellular
automata setting the background of your X Windows desktop under water. Windows
and mouse are like ships on the sea. Each movement of these ends up in moving
water waves.
SYSTEM
htop
An
interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console
or X terminals) and requires ncurses. Tested with Linux 2.4 and
2.6.
Filelight
Filelight creates an
interactive map of concentric segmented-rings that helps visualise disk usage on
your computer.
PcMan File Manager
An extremly fast
and lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and a user friendly
interface.
Conky
A lightweight
system monitor that is highly configurable and is easily displayed and runs on
your desktop background.
Tilda
Similar
to those video game drop down terminals, tilda allows you to have the same
effect on your desktop.
YaKuake
A simple
KDE terminal emulator.
Zim
Started in
late 05′ Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor ritten in Gtk2-Perl which aims to bring
the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Every page is saved as a text file with
wiki markup. Pages can contain links to other pages, and are saved
automatically.
Specto
Specto is a desktop
application that will watch configuarable events and then trigger notifications.
Add a watch, forget it, and be notified.
