Cool applications you use that others might not know of

[KIAaze]

-CaRMetal (geometry software): http://db-maths.nuxit.net/CaRMetal/index_en.html

Other interesting things, which are not directly apps:
-OpenDisk: http://www.theopendisc.com/
-On-Disk (ships entire repositories on CD/DVD): http://on-disk.com/index.php/cPath/28_257_174

[thinkinhurtz]

WinFF, I know how it sounds but this is a Linux application now in the Ubuntu repositories. This is a lightweight GUI that quickly converts video files from one format to another. Winff also works specifically well with .flv files downloaded from YouTube and other sites allowing you to convert them to .avi files or whatever format you choose.

[ubudog]

WinFF, I know how it sounds but this is a Linux application now in the Ubuntu repositories. This is a lightweight GUI that quickly converts video files from one format to another. Winff also works specifically well with .flv files downloaded from YouTube and other sites allowing you to convert them to .avi files or whatever format you choose.

Yeah, but it produces terrible quality videos when being used with gtk-recordmydesktop.

[Lucradia]

Yeah, but it produces terrible quality videos when being used with gtk-recordmydesktop.

That's why there's the command line:

For Audio:

recordmydesktop --full-shots --fps=60.0 --channels=2 --freq=44100 --s_quality=10 --no-wm-check --no-frame --overwrite

and to transcode for youtube:

ffmpeg -i out.ogv -r 60 -vcodec msmpeg4 -ar 44100 -qscale 5.5 out.avi

No Audio:

recordmydesktop --no-sound --no-frame --overwrite --fps=60 --no-wm-check

transcode for youtube:

ffmpeg -i out.ogv -r 60 -vcodec mpeg4 -qscale 5.5 out.m4v

You'll see what happens when you try to mpeg4 audio, hence why I chose msmpeg instead.

[ki4jgt]

Alarm Clock - duh
Links2 - Terminal based web browser
Zaz - alternative to Zuma
QTM - Blogging client
Musicbrainzpicard - searches the internet and identifies your music for you.

[zerubbabel]

OpenCPN is a very nice navigational chart plotting program, available here. Install the program and then download free raster charts for US waters from the NOAA site, and you're off and running, or sailing...

P.S.: Supports common GPS and AIS devices.

[ubuntu27]

Bible Analyzer :

Bible Analyzer is a free, comprehensive Bible study and analysis application developed to aid Believers in their study and defense of the Holy Bible. It has several features (such as text comparison, proximity searches, detailed statistics, etc.) usually not found in other free or commercial Bible software programs.

There is now a PPA for Bible Analyzer.

[Mark76]

Plan.

Let Synaptic tell you all about it

X/Motif day planner (dynamically compiled with LessTif2)

Plan is a schedule planner based on X/Motif. It displays a month calendar
similar to xcal, but every day box is large enough to show appointments in
small print. By pressing on a day box, the appointments for that day can be
listed and edited. Appointments are entered with the following information
(everything except the time is optional):

And a screenshot

[Spice Weasel]

Links2 - Terminal based web browser

ELinks > Links2 unless you run it in the framebuffer.

[Sean Moran]

I hope nobody has mentioned this one before, particularly my forgetful self. I checked back to September, but not keen to go through 200 pages.

It's nothing fancy, but great when I'm working on a whole lot of files, particularly things like photos. I took over 10,000 photos in the past year, and it gets to be a lot of work to edit them all down and save the results as meaningful filenames, and usually any particular series will end up with names like:
restaurant001.jpg, restaurant002.jpg, ... restaurant789.jpg.

GPRename is a nice little GUI utility for renaming a batch of files. It can do the numbering, insert, delete, replace and remove characters, as well as change cases.

Not very exciting, but it comes in handy every now and then, and it's not massive.