Recommend a program

[whatthefunk]

Like the title says, recommend a program, any program. Something that you have found useful, cool, interesting, or fun. Whatever you'd like. Ill try to recommend one every couple days to keep the thread going. Ill keep a list of recommendations in this post and try to update it often.

Today, I recommend Anki.
http://ankisrs.net/

Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.
Anyone who needs to remember things in their daily life can benefit from Anki. Since it is content-agnostic and supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX), the possibilities are endless. For example:

learning a language
studying for medical and law exams
memorizing people's names and faces
brushing up on geography
mastering long poems
even practicing guitar chords!

Its a flashcard program. You can easily make your own flashcards, or, what Ive found really useful, is that you can download other people's flashcards. When going through a flashcard deck, you can tell the program how difficult the card was. Cards that were rated as being more difficult will be reviewed more often until it becomes easy to remember. Flashcards can contain text, pictures, sound clips, and even video. It intigrates really well with KDE too (although it doesnt like oxygen transparent).

Its in the repos. Enjoy!

Recommendations

Development
Kdevelop + python plug-in - KDE integrated development environment (post #6)
-Install from repositories

Rstudio - R integrated development environment (post #6)
-Download .deb file from homepage: http://www.rstudio.com/ide/

Sublime Text - text editor (post # 12)
-Download tarball from homepage: http://www.sublimetext.com/

Graphics and Photography
Flickr Uploader - upload photos to Flickr (post #8)
-Install from repositories

Gimp - create and edit images (post #8)
-Install from repositories

RAWTherapee - edit RAW image files (post #8)
-Install from repositories

Education
Anki - flashcard program (post #1)
-Install from repositories

Kiwix - read Wikipedia articles offline (post #11)
-Download tarball or install from ppa. See homepage: http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page/en

Sage - symbolic math program (post#6)
-Download tarball from homepage: http://www.sagemath.org/

Internet
KNemo - monitor your network connections (post #18)
-Install from repositories

Leechcraft - all-in-one net application for browsing, torrents, RSS feeds, IMing, streaming etc. (post #5)
-Install from ppa http://leechcraft.org/download#Ubuntu

Music
Algoscore - make music from math (post #5)
-Install from GetDeb repositories: http://www.getdeb.net/software/algoscore

Hydrogen - drum machine (post #2)
-Install from repositories

MuseScore - music composing (post #4)
-Install from repositories

Office
gLabels - create labels and business cards (post #15)
-Install from repositories

Lyx - make Latex documents easily (post #6)
-Install from repositories

pdftk-qgui - edit PDF documents (post #6)
-Download tarball from homepage: http://suslic-2012.narod.ru/PDFTkGUI.html

Ted - create and edit RTF files (post #10)
-Download .deb package from homepage: http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/

Utilities
HPLIP - print and fax with HP hardware (posts #15 and #16)
-Install from repositories

Krusader - file manager (post #17)
-Install from repositories

Lucky Backup - backup your system (post #15)
-Install from repositories

Midnight Commander - shell based file manager (post #13)
-Install from repositories

Psensor - monitor your hardware sensors (post #19)
-Install from repositories

Qalculate! - advanced calculator (post #14)
-Install GTK version from repositories or download KDE version from homepage: http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/downloads.html

Quicksynergy - share your mouse and keyboard between computers (post #3)
-Install from repositories

XSane - scan documents and images (post #15)
-Install from repositories

Yakuake - drop down terminal (post #4)
-Install from repositories

YPPA Manager - GUI ppa manager (post #9)
-Install from ppa https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+.../y-ppa-manager

[sealbhach]

Good idea. I would like to mention Hydrogen, which is a nice and fun to use drum machine. The controls are simple and intuitive, but it does appear to have a decent amount of settings, for those who are more serious about music. You can find it in your package manager or get a development version from the PPA here:

http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/node/21


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[Snowhog]

Quicksynergy

Description-en: Share mouse, keyboard and clipboard over the network
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between
multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its
own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users
with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its
own display.
.
Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse
off the edge of your screen. Synergy also merges the clipboards of
all the systems into one, allowing cut-and-paste between systems.
Furthermore, it synchronizes screen savers so they all start and stop
together and, if screen locking is enabled, only one screen requires
a password to unlock them all.

Also in the repositories. I use it to control my second laptop from my first.

[SteveRiley]

Yakuake because the CLI is all-powerful and must not be shunned.
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29153

MuseScore for when the mood to compose strikes.
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=53071

[Jonas]

Brilliant idea Whatthefunk! If you feel you have the time it would be great if you could list them in your post with a short description, for easy access and overview.


Leechcraft - All-in-one net application - web browser, torrent client, RRS feed, IM, stream player etc.

http://leechcraft.org/
there's a Launchpad repo http://leechcraft.org/download#Ubuntu

Algoscore - I'm totally untalented with music but I find this very interesting - music by math.

http://kymatica.com/Software/AlgoScore
(it's in GetDebs repo - http://www.getdeb.net/software/algoscore )

b.r

Jonas

PS;

Today, I recommend Anki.

Great- maybe then I'll learn how to spell Quantic Qutezal within the next siix months

[dmeyer]

Lyx - Best way to enjoy the powers of Latex while keeping it all very easy. This is one of my must install programs and I reccommend everybody, especially students and authors, to give it a try.

Kdevelop with python plug-in - Seriously, by far the best python IDE. Heard its quite good for C++ too

Sage - Great for working with symbolic math using python style syntax

Rstudio - Best R IDE

pdftk-qgui - Great for doing a lot of quick things with PDF's e.g. concatenate documents, remove watermark etc.

[whatthefunk]

Brilliant idea Whatthefunk! If you feel you have the time it would be great if you could list them in your post with a short description, for easy access and overview.

Done! I honestly dont know much about some of the programs so if anybody feels Ive made a mistake let me know.
Great recommendations so far...keep them coming!

[Robtygart]

The photography programs I like are.

For RAW Processing: RAWTherapee
Image Editing: Gimp
Uploading (For Flickr): FlickrUploader

[Jonas]

Done! I honestly dont know much about some of the programs so if anybody feels Ive made a mistake let me know.
Great recommendations so far...keep them coming!

Lovely! That's the brilliance of the thread - we don't know all gems out there - so we share them. Maybe if each come with a genre tag it'll make things easier on you.
Someone posted this on KFN and I can't find the post now but all credit to him/her... makes sense post it since there are some new ppa's here

Utilities
YPPA Manager - GUI ppa manager (post #9)
Install from ppa https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+.../y-ppa-manager

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Jonas

[arochester]

Ted, Easy rich text processor.

Ted is an easy rich text processor. It can edit RTF files in a wysiwyg manner. It supports multiple fonts and can print to PostScript printers. It consists of a general part: The program, afm files and an American spelling checker. Additional packages with spell checkers for different languages exist.

http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/

...so simple...

[sealbhach]

Kiwix

http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page/en

An offline Wikipedia reader. It's got several downloadable ZIM files of varying sizes containing most or all of Wikipedia in various languages.

With Kiwix, you can enjoy Wikipedia on a boat, in the middle of nowhere... or in Jail.

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[jwebster8]

I'll play...

For development, I like Kate a lot, but Sublime Text ( http://www.sublimetext.com/ ) is great as well. It's an absolutely fantastic editor.

[GreyGeek]

Midnight Commander (In the repository as "mc"). A shell based file manager/editor/mover that works at lightening speed. It was written by Anikin Skywalker, before he turned to the Dark Side.

[Qqmike]

Qalculate!

Useful for all sorts of math things, including mundane number conversions (from one base to another), say for tracking addresses/registers in the MBR or whatever.

http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/

Thread made me realize how many neat programs may exist that I'm not aware of or not using. Seems I get by just fine with the standard stuff (DigiKam, K3b, and such).

[StarWolf]

recommendations

Graphics


Gimp , qwenview

Utilities

Kspalsherx

xsane

Hplip

lucky back up (awesome!)

Business cards and labels

Glabel