Awesome Ubuntu/Linux Apps you might not know about
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.
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.
Agave
A very imple 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.
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.
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.
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.
APTonCD
APTonCD is a tool with a graphical interface which allows you to create one or more CDs or DVDs (you choose the type of media) with all of the packages you’ve downloaded via APT-GET or APTITUDE, creating a removable repository that you can use on other computers.
Mercury Messenger
A nice MSN messenger clone for Linux. The packages on the official site are quite old however, so, if you want to download the latest beta/RC you have to join the forum
SciTE
SciTE is a SCIntilla based Text Editor.
qjoypad
QJoyPad takes input from a gamepad or joystick and translates it into key strokes or mouse actions, letting you control any XWindows program with your game controller.
gimmie
Gimmie is a unique desktop organizer for Linux. It’s designed to allow easy interaction with all the applications, contacts, documents and other things you use every day. Gimmie can be run either as a stand-alone application or added as a GNOME Panel applet.
atunes
aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems, …
Istanbul
Istanbul is a desktop session recorder for the Free Desktop. It records your session into an Ogg Theora video file.
tv-browser
TV-Browser is a digital TV guide. It enables you to load the current TV program from the internet and view it offline with a great visual style. There is no need for a continuous online connection.
moc
MOC (music on console) is a console audio player for LINUX/UNIX designed to be powerful and easy to use.
rainlendar
Rainlendar is a feature rich calendar application that is easy to use and doesn’t take much space on your desktop. The application is platform independent so you can run it both on Windows and on Linux. The appearance can be customized with skins and you can even mix different skins together.
youtranslate
Briefly it’s just a small and simple application that lets you use some internet translation services in an easy and fast way.
BMP-Beep Media Player
BMP is a media player which provides a very easy-to-use interface and usage semantics for all tasks, while having extensive standards and services support under the hood (MusicBrainz, Last.fm radio/scrobbling, HAL, DBus), yet keeping the details out of the way of the user.
Pixelize
Pixelize is a program that will use many scaled down images to try to duplicate, as closely as possible, another image.
manDVD
ManDVD is a program to simply create DVD Video. Here is a guide on how to use this program.
treeline
Basically, it just stores almost any kind of information. A tree structure makes it easy to keep things organized. And each node in the tree can contain several fields, forming a mini-database. The output format for each node can be defined, and the output can be shown on the screen, printed, or exported to html.
qmusicbrowser
An open-source jukebox for large collections of mp3/ogg/flac/mpc files, written in perl.
geda
The gEDA project has produced and continues working on a full GPL’d suite of Electronic Design Automation tools. These tools are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production.
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