Questions asking for specific applications that perform a given task or work with a given file format. If you're looking specifically for a game, use the "game-recommendation" tag instead.
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I s there an equivalent to the Netspeed Applet?
I use the netspeed applet to monitor all my internet connections, in particular when using mobile broadband where it also gives a total of the transfers during the connection.
I understand that ...
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6answers
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How to create a music CD from mp3 files?
Are there any Nero Burning Softwares for Ubuntu ? The most important is to able burn Mp3 or songs files into the CD/DVD =)
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Is there an equivalent of “stay” for Ubuntu?
On my laptop at work, I use an external monitor, but when I'm away from my desk I just use the laptop monitor.
On OSX I used to use Stay but I'm struggling to get the same functionality on Ubuntu.
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What's the best chess program for a beginner?
Pychess wouldn't work for me and after trying other software I settled for Eboard. I can play a basic game with it but the interface is intimidating and there appears to be no documentation. Is there ...
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3answers
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Software for manual audio transcription (speech, interviews etc.)
Is there any software that supports you to manually transcribe content from audio files (like ogg, mp3) to text?
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4answers
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What is the alternative for Teamviewer?
Is there any Ubuntu alternative for team-viewer software for Windows?
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How can I download music from youtube and not the video film?
I want to know if is there any programme to download music from youtube,not video....like DVDvideosoft in Windows...
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2answers
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light weight window manager/desktop environment like unity
I am looking for a Light weight window manager/desktop environment similar to unity
but not unity/unity-2d GNOME or KDE something light
with these features.
window buttons layout like unity.
side ...
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4answers
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Is there a way to run MS-DOS alongside/within Ubuntu?
Is there a version of MS-DOS that I can add to Ubuntu? I have old MS-DOS games.
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2answers
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Is there a chat application that supports a proxy?
I've upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and it seems that it has a lack of support for internet connections with a proxy.
Pidgin has stopped working, and when I go to the Proxy tab, under the settings window, ...
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Download picasa web photos without picasa
I am using Natty. I want to download or sync all of my picasa web photos on my disk. I know that using picasa I can do the same. But I do not want to use old (non - updated) version of picasa. (plus ...
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3answers
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Is there an user activity monitor/alarm?
There once was a tool called Active Work Tracker for Windows from Brigsoft.
What it basically did was to monitor user activity, sound alarm after a predefined period (say 60 minutes), wait another ...
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1answer
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What is the best tool for converting and reading video to be played on DVD players?
Last time I tried Brasero it was very slow compared to anything on windows.
If there is also a way to speed it up that would be great.
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How can I split a mp3 file?
I have a big mp3 file, it comes from ripping a full cd. I would like to split it into one file per song. It will be great if it can split the file automatically, detecting the start and the end of ...
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1answer
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Reduce avi size without losing too much quality
I have a few GBs in .avi videos and I want to convert them to some other format to reduce their size but I don't want to lose a lot of quality, there's text and other graphics in the video than need ...
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1answer
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Is a brightness control widget available?
Is it possible to place a slider or some other GUI component on the desktop / Notification Panel on Ubuntu 12.04 to control the screen brightness?
It's a little annoying to constantly have to go to ...
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3answers
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Easily make website without coding [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Basic Web Development IDE/Editor like Dreamweaver?
I know Windows has some create programs to make websites attractive websites without coding. Can anyone recommend to ...
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2answers
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Alternatives to dvd-slideshow
I'm currently using dvd-slideshow to create video files containing slideshows with sound, transitions and titles, and I'm quite fond of the command line approach for this kind of task. Is there any ...
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What is a good MongoDB GUI client?
I've been using Rockmongo on Windows - it's a php based web tool. But on Ubuntu (12.04) it's behaving funny - queries timing out often - and I'm looking for better clients. Does anyone know anything ...
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What Horoscope or Astrology software is available?
I am looking for Horoscope or Astrology software in ubuntu especially for 9.04 or 10.04 version.
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1answer
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Is there a way to view notification history?
If I walk away from my PC, then there is a good chance I might miss certain notifications. I've seen in KDE that notifications get stored and stacked until you click them (or whatever).
Unless I'm ...
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3answers
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GUI for watching logs (tail and grep)
Could you recommend a GUI application with powerful log watching capabilities?
Generally it would work as tail -f in GUI, but on top of that following features would be very useful:
filtering out ...
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1answer
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What user-friendly VPN software is available?
Other than the Network Manager applet at the Natty panel, is there any other user-friendly VPN tool available. One which has a GUI and can be easily setup.
Ref. question : ConnMan not detecting ...
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How do I handle .WIM image files?
I have an Asus netbook, and its recovery partition and recovery DVD have several images in .WIM format.
Are there any Linux/Ubuntu tools to handle those images? Im looking for the equivalents of ...
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Video stabilisation software
Is there any way, either through a graphical program or a command line utility to "stabilise" video in Ubuntu?
By stabilise I am referring mainly to a feature of iMovie where shaky video is analysed, ...
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Which usenet client would you recommend for binary downloads?
I am trying to replace Windows by Ubuntu, because Linux simply rocks. :-) So I am on the quest finding appropriate alternative software for ubuntu, that I used on Windows (or sometimes Mac) so far.
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Does the Nexus 7 version of Ubuntu support the same software as the desktop version?
I'm wondering whether the Nexus 7 version of Ubuntu ('Ubuntu on Android') supports the same software (i. e., VirtualBox, Google Chrome, LibreOffice Writer) as the desktop version. Is there any ...
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Note taking software that supports images
Is there a note taking software that supports image insertion? And best with font changing of area texts. I use tomboy before, that has no image support.
Thanks.
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5answers
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What software is available for iPod synchronization?
What software is available for iPod music, contacts and calender syncing with an iPod Mini 2G?
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4answers
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What cd/dvd burning software should I use?
I have tried countless cd/dvd burning software on ubuntu 12.04 and none of them work for me, any ideas guys?
I've tried tovidgui, bombono dvd,and mestelix, they are all so very confusing is there ...
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4answers
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How to transfer files from Windows 7 to Linux Ubuntu?
i have to transfer huge files(like 20GB), how can i do that without formatting my windows (NP if i format my Ubuntu)?
Note: i'm using Ubuntu 11.04
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3answers
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Which office suite is the ideal alternative to MSOffice?
Let's say I want to drop MSOffice permanently and switch to a free alternative, not having the need of opening the documents on other PC's except my own (I can also carry a portable version on a ...
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0answers
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Alternative to downloading files through Firefox [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Download accelerators for Ubuntu
I am completely new to Linux and have installed Ubuntu 11.10. The built-in download manager for Firefox is terrible. When I used windows ...
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1answer
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Apps capable of mounting/unmounting CD/DVD Images with multi-sector or protected format
What apps for Ubuntu exist that can mount/unmount CD/DVD images. Image formats like cue, bin, iso, nero format, etc...
Needed features:
Emulate protected CD/DVD like Daemon-Tools
Mount multi-sector ...
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4answers
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How can I burn an ISO file to a blank disk?
I have downloaded the Ubuntu 10.10 ISO file and am trying to burn it to a blank disc so that I can install it, using Ubuntu 8.04. I have a dual boot system with Windows and Ubuntu.
Here's my ...
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2answers
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Is there a Sticky Note application? [duplicate]
On Windows 7, there is this Sticky Note app that will always start itself up and show itself in the same place with all the text you have written when you boot Windows up. You can also have multiple ...
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Back up the whole ubuntu system or system image creation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make a disk image and restore from it later?
In windows back is very easy with Norton ghost. Run it and forget it,
What is the same type of software for backing ...
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1answer
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archive manager does not archive files
The archive manager does not archive files or games and gives the following error:
Archive: /media/BA/setup.exe
[/media/BA/setup.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file ...
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2answers
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Manage ubuntu 11.10 desktop from server webconsole
Are there any alternatives to Ubuntu landscape as I want to manage ubuntu desktops of different version 10.04,11.04 and 11.10
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3answers
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Any open source data analysis software around?
Are the any apps for analysing data like SPSS, Minitab etc in Windows for Ubuntu?
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What Horoscope software is available? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What Horoscope or Astrology software is available?
I am looking for horoscope software in ubuntu
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4answers
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Which Software is suitable for downloading movies
Which Software is suitable for downloading movies.
especialy from the site www.go8pm.com from there i like to download movies(malayalam language-from india)
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What new games are available for Ubuntu in 2011? [closed]
I know there have been other questions like "What native games are available?" and they often have issues because they turn into a never-ending list of every game ever released for Linux.
But I'd ...
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Is there an GUI Designer for python?
Is there a GUI IDE for programming python just like java has netbeans?
I wanted one where we could drag & drop test boxes & labels just as we do in swing components using netbeans or eclipse.
...
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Is there a shell-independent HUD-like menu search tool for GNOME?
The Ubuntu HUD - you love it or you hate it. Personally I rather like a classic desktop, so I use Xfce and Cinnamon, and I don't want to lose my menu in applications.
But the HUD is pretty awesome ...
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7answers
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Best GUI client for Git?
I am using git for version control of various projects.
Is there easy-to-use software for navigating through commits and branches of a project and for retrieving versions?
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2answers
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What's the best, simplest OCR solution?
I'd like to scan a good amount of papers I have lying around, with the least possible hassle. I would like to convert them to images using Simple Scan, then convert them to text using OCR. Is there a ...
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Torrent client for the command-line?
Yesterday one of my friends asked me, if there is some torrent client, that runs on the command-line.
I have no answer for him, but I think that you have it.
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Which Time Tracker application do you recommend?
I have to do three or four jobs a day, and each has several parts. I want a time tracker tool to help me know how much time I've spent on each part and each job overall.
I've found some like gnotime ...
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Is there an alternative for Scrivener (a tool for writers to arrange ideas?)?
Scrivener is a word processing app designed for writers with a unqiue interface and tool set focused on ‘generating content’ rather than simply allowing for content to be written.
Anything like that ...
