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Software reviews (102)
| Software | Score |
|---|---|
| gcolor2 "Useful program for web development, it will tell you the color of anything on your screen." |
4 |
| stellarium "In my mind, the best astronomy program. I like it much better than Celestia because it's like looking at the night's sky from your house." |
5 |
| youtube-dl "The code can be easily customized to suit your needs." |
4 |
| pcmanfm "A great little file manager with tabs." |
4 |
| rtorrent "It's a fully-featured and efficient client with the ability to run in the background using screen with session management and fast resume support." |
4 |
| bookmarkbridge "Useful app!" |
4 |
| tangerine "View and edit new and existing playlists in a great new way. It will make you wonder how you managed without this program!" |
4 |
| exaile "Quite an impressive media player, offers most features one would expect to find in any modern media player and also comes with a few interesting but not so popular features." |
4 |
| screenlets "Dashboard-like widgets for Linux, a great way to improve your overall computing experience." |
4 |
| avant-window-navigator "Cool dock-like taskbar!" |
5 |
| specto "This has the potential to change the way you work! Starting with monitoring log files for changes, watching a folder being shared over a VPN and looking for comments on your blog, the list of use cases is endless." |
4 |
| atris "Alizarin Tetris is one of the best Tetris clones I have ever come across!" |
4 |
| seahorse "It integrates with Nautilus, gedit and Evolution for encryption, decryption and other operations." |
4 |
| gajim "Despite a few rough edges, I found Gajim impressive." |
4 |
| r-base-core "A statistics program that can do much much more, it is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories." |
4 |
| filelight "View disk usage in a different way than usual." |
4 |
| links2 "The graphical version of the Twibright Labs Links web browser." |
4 |
| htop "A fine alternative to top, try it out!" |
4 |
| torrentflux "Great for home web servers, let's you start a torrent download at home from anywhere using a web-based Graphical User Interface." |
4 |
| xaralx "Like Inkscape, but in my opinion, better." |
5 |
| feh "Great image viewer and background setter, perfect for those of use who use Window Managers instead of Desktop Environments." |
4 |
| beneath-a-steel-sky "The graphics are a bit dated, but the storyline is excellent. If you enjoyed games like Monkey Island, King Quest and Quest for Glory, you will love this one." |
4 |
| zim "It's very similar to Tomboy notes and can be handy to help you stay organized." |
4 |
| hydrogen "It's very easy to use and can be fun for those who have never played an instrument or done any work with sound." |
4 |
| agave "Useful when designing a webpage or for some digital painting, this program will tell you which colours go well together." |
4 |
| qalculate "One of the most powerful calculators I've ever used!" |
4 |
| gscan2pdf "Go paperless in your home or office with Gscan2PDF! It can be used with the tesseract-ocr package." |
4 |
| tesseract-ocr "One of the most accurate free software OCR engines that handles image files in TIFF format (with filename extension .tif); other file formats need to be converted to TIFF before being submitted to Tesseract." |
4 |
| xvst "With this tool you can download almost any video from internet via HTTP and RTMP protocols." |
4 |
| alien "I use this with the GUI called Package Converter." |
4 |
| checkinstall "Useful when you want to install a program from source code, but especially when it comes to upgrading or uninstalling that program." |
4 |
| shotwell "It can be used to publish photos to Facebook, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums." |
4 |
| openshot "The best video editor for GNOME users." |
4 |
| pitivi "Intuitive and featureful movie editor for the Linux desktop." |
4 |
| bleachbit "It is the CCleaner equivalent for Linux. Easy to use and very effecive!" |
4 |
| computer-janitor-gtk "This program has the potential of doing damage if used incorrectly so be sure your critical data is backed up. If you have doubts about what it wants to remove simply uncheck the box for that item." |
4 |
| deluge "High quality BitTorrent client, runs smoothly on Linux Mint 7 and looks very similar to uTorrent." |
5 |
| tvtime "When it comes to the quality of image, tvtime does the job perfectly." |
5 |
| acroread "Very bloated and seems to eat resources for no real reason. It can offer a nice variety of features for reading, so it's a bit of a trade off." |
3 |
| googleearth "Absolutely one of the greatest ideas ever developed since computer and internet were invented! Breaks space barriers and puts the whole world into your hand." |
5 |
| celestia "Outstanding educational tool for astronomy and astrophysics. Good scripting language for automation; extendable and genuinely entertaining." |
5 |
| dosbox "Many memories in one little box. Great for playing old classic games." |
4 |
| torcs "A beautiful 3D auto race game for the serious race fan, TORCS even lets you program your own cars, robot opponents, and race tracks as well." |
4 |
| inkscape "Great program for drawing vector images. I use it for creating simple graphics and typography." |
5 |
| blender "I recommend this to anyone who wants to try their hand at 3D modeling. There's quite a steep learning curve, but that's only because it has so many features." |
5 |
| pidgin "Better than most network-specific clients. You should know that the saved usernames and passwords are stored in a plain text file that anyone with access to your computer can read: see file:///home/YourUserName/.purple/accounts.xml" |
4 |
| beagle "Very good indexer for Linux, not only it looks for files by name but for content, even PDF content." |
4 |
| geany "The best Linux alternative to Notepad++" |
4 |
| scribus "It's great for desktop publishing, has quite the list of features and is fairly easy to get used to." |
4 |
| picasa "The smart way to manage your digital photo collection!" |
4 |