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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Is there a greeting card maker? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is a good card creating application?
Is there any software for creating great Greeting Cards in Ubuntu? Maybe the question has been asked before, but I didn't find ...
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How do I encrypt my documents? [duplicate]
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Is there a tool to encrypt a file or directory?
I would like to know what software to use to encrypt documents like PDFs and that sort of files. I am using Ubuntu 12.04.
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Is it possible to install AutoCad or an alternative on Ubuntu? [duplicate]
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What good CAD programs are available?
My relative wants to install Ubuntu for his office purposes. He would definitely use AutoCad (as well as other tools).
Would ...
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What desktop environments feature a searchable “Start” menu/launcher?
Aside from Unity, KDE and Cinnamon, which of the many desktop environments support incremental search among the start menu items, including not just applications, but recent documents?
That is, which ...
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Capture moving images with multiple webcams
I am trying to capture images when there is any movement involved using 2 webcams, each one pointing at different angles. I started to try motion but I am starting to believe is only for a single ...
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Software that will read books from library [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ebook Reader Software
Is there any available program in Ubuntu that can read ebook from local public library without using windows?
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Are there tools to measure video quality?
I am looking for any tools that can measure the video quality in a subjective way (As how the eye sees a moving picture). Are there any tools to which I could input a video file and get a subjective ...
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Optimization: RAM cleaning and monitoring
Is there any good tools for ram cleaning-purging?
I mean some daemon, that watch on RAM and trying to purge some, if it reached the limit?
Thanks!
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Self-hosted browser based IRC client alternatives
I have looked at the self-hosted web browser based IRC-clients Subway and Alice as I never seem to get an invite for IRCcloud.
The two alternatives I have found suffer from really bad bugs. They work ...
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Recommendations from Software Center are just odd (or for default and installed apps)
The automatic in-app recommendations I get in the Ubuntu Software Center are just plain odd. I have only installed one game (OpenTTD) and the rest of the applications that I have installed are purely ...
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Screenshot Tools to Capture Scrolling Windows
As the title of the Question states, I want to know what are the tools available for Ubuntu which would allow me to take screenshots of Scrolling Windows ie; tall webpages, tall nautilus window which ...
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usare IMAGE MAGICK da terminale
Avevo Ubuntu 12.04 e quando ho installato IMAGE MAGICK riuscivo ad utilizzarlo da terminale, adesso ho aggiornato Ubuntu alla versione 12.10, ma IMAGE MAGICK lo posso utilizzare solo dal programma e ...
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What are differences between softmaker and libreoffice? [closed]
could anyone please tell me, what are features of softmaker which libre doesn't have?
I've got it on Android and it's awesome. Thinking about buying a desktop version...
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Free pdf reader that supports taking notes (and bookmarks)
I learned about the PDF possibility of taking notes which are then stored with the document, usefull when reading ebooks. If the note taker also supports some math notation, that would be wonderful! ...
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How can I hide or show a different IP to a website?
I'd like to watch BBC Iplayer...but it only works in the UK. I am currently living in Spain. Is there a way to hide my ID and make the bbc website believe that I have a UK IP or something?
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Free Software for Billing (Colombia)
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I'm looking for a billing application (also inventories, shopping, clients, providers, accounts, etc) for small businesses. The software should adapt with Colombia's necessities. I searched ...
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Music player / database for read-only music collection
I am looking for a music player and/or database for using with a read only music library.
The situation is this:
I have a music library (FLACs, OGGs, MP3s) that I, for diverse reasons, want to keep ...
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Read QR and other bar codes from screen
I'm looking for a simple way to read bar codes, data matrix and QR codes.
The scenario: I have it on my PC screen (website, photo, PDF, webcam), want the contained text
I'm on KDE, Kubuntu Precise, ...
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Gmail checker on 12.10
Is thee any gmail checker that works on 12.10?
I just want blue icon in app indicator when I have unrad emails, nothing more.
UPDATE: I just realized there are desktop notifications supported in ...
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Sharing files over internet
I'm running a headless ubuntu server at home, and i'm wondering if there's any good programs for having a website with your files on it. Basically like twonky, except less awful.
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Libreoffice vs Lotus Symphony vs Starroffice. What is better? [closed]
I know that all three mentioned office apps are based on OpenOffice.org . I previously used Libreoffice but I had troubles with editing PDFs and importing/exproting MS Office documents sometimes. I ...
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What's the best Office Suite for 12.10, especially with respect to formatting and equation editing tools?
I've tried running MS Office through wine but it failed to install correctly. As for LibreOffice it has some limitations when it comes to writing equations which is important for me seeing how I'm a ...
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What's the best BitTorrent client for 12.10 excluding utorrent? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
List of GUI Based BitTorrent clients
The reason why I've excluded utorrent is because utorrent server doesn't appear to work for me with the details of such difficulties ...
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Looking for a grep GUI
So I want something pretty simple :) App where I put a dir to search, and a string/regexp to search in the file contents recursively in that dir, and it gives a list of results.
I don't want ...
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Edit a .PDF file
I was wondering if there is a pdf reader-writer-publisher-editor that can add text, highlight, shapes and general edit an existing pdf document.
Something like Nitro in windows.
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Firefox “clone” for Ubuntu
In Windows I use, beside the main Firefox installation, one or even two "Firefox clones" for different purposes (specifically oriented addons and configurations, light configuration without addons, ...
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how to handle large file copies
I would like to know how I can manage copying large files of the order of 20Gb and all in ubuntu. I mean is there any copy handler software as in windows. I need to pause/resume my copy and add more ...
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What are the different Unity Web-apps that are available?
Now that Ubuntu is officially supporting Web-apps I just wanted to know what are the different Web-apps that are available out there.
I know the most basic ones just add an icon in the Launcher when ...
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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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which software to use for cleaning up files and increase performance of a computer under ubuntu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is system cleanup/optimization needed
i am looking for a sofware that would clean up registry , temporary and log files on ubuntu.
Is there an equivalent to the windows ...
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Scientific diagram drawing software
I want to draw mathematical pictures like graphs but just simple ones like a quick sketch of an exponential decay crossing at a point marked A or something like that, and I want to draw a picture of a ...
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Nitro Tasks not generating “todo.txt”
I have started using Nitro Tasks and while current version 1.5 should feature automatic generation of "todo.txt" when syncing with Ubuntu One, I don't see this file. It should be found in the Ubuntu ...
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Looking for a customizable “Did you know…” dialog application
I want to deploy a "Did you know..." or "Tip of the day" application at the office. It should:
Show a dialog at login time with a random tip.
Obviously, provide some way to store my own tips.
Be ...
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Is there a shell-independent search tool like the Unity's Dash?
The only thing I will miss after moving to LXDE from Unity will be the Unity Dash. Its functionality, not the piss-poor performance that is. So here's my question. I know there is synapse but AFAIK it ...
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SDF viewer for Ubuntu?
Is there an application that can view/edit SQL server compact database (SDF) files in Ubuntu? Thanks.
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Right-click Desktop environment
I have been searching around at different desktop environments and a couple days ago, I came across a post that listed an environment that was completely blank and the menu was accessed through a ...
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Which is the best package to draw drawings in python?
We are trying to implement the drawing tools like line, circle, pencil, brush and so on in gtk.
Is it possible to draw these things into the textview? Would one of these packages work for the ...
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How do I edit text in a scanned .jpeg?
I need to upload a scanned image as a PDF document.
After scanning the document, I have a .jpeg with small text that I want to edit before converting to PDF for the upload.
I have never done this ...
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Need a tool to introduce network jitter & check the performance for voip calls
I need a software tool which can emulate network impairments/jitters in the network and test VoIP calls behavior and quality.
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Is there a theme creator and/or editor? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I make a Theme from scratch for Unity?
I want to make my own theme, or edit an existing one. But I can't really find an application for Ubuntu 12.10, Unity ...
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system requirement
My laptop developed a bad sectors and not working well. It was with ubutuntu 12.04 LTS operating system. Now, I want to install ubuntu in an relatively old desktop with the following specifications
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Is server alive app
I'm just wondering, is there an Ubuntu program to check if certain IP's are up ?
I have a few servers and i'm searching for a small program\app\indicator to ping\telnet\tcp-connect my servers and ...
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How to benchmark a software's performance
How can I benchmark the performance of a particular software not complete system? I know various tools are available for system benchmarking.
But I want to benchmark the performance of a particular ...
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Proxy Client for Ubuntu
I want to use a proxy for web browsing similar to Ultrasurf for Windows. I've tried to use TOR, but it isn't working! The problem is whenever I search something along the lines of "ubuntu + linux ...
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Manipulating WIM files
extending on this question: How do I handle .WIM image files?
Any way to change/create a WIM file?
The problem at hand is that i need to remove a few directories from a WIM archive.
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Help with coding a C web filtering program on Ubuntu [closed]
I am new to Ubuntu.
I have a school project to program a web filtering program in the C language.
Basically the program should monitor the users web traffic and block websites that the admin has ...
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Is there a graphical pager with syntax highlighting?
Is there a graphical application in the repositories which has keyboard controls like the command-line application "less" and also has syntax highlighting?
I would like it to have arrow keys that ...
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Is there an Android remote app compatible with LibreOffice Impress under Ubuntu?
I have an upcoming presentation I want to make in LibreOffice Impress on my Ubuntu 12.10 laptop. I was wondering if I could get ahold of an Android app which would act like a remote control, allowing ...
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How do I run an application once installed?
I have just downloaded three programs, including Audacity from the Software Center, and, while they are listed in my 'downloads' folder, I don't see how to open and run them. When I write click ...
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Is there a file explorer/manager for the command line?
I would like to know if there is something like DOS interface for Ubuntu. I mean a "GUI" that can run from the console (for example if you are using Ubuntu Server). Some file explorer like Nautilus ...
