Must have apps for ubuntu?

[bhishan]

Recommend some must have apps for ubuntu. I don't wanna miss anything.

[SomeGuyDude]

Name a task, I name an app.

The Firefox 3.5 beta rocks for browsing.

I adore sonata + MPD for music

GIMP

OpenOffice

Pidgin

VLC

Picard for music tagging

Deluge for torrents

Brasero to burn discs

[SuperSonic4]

Firefox

Deluge

VLC (1.0 development version)

Amarok 1.4

k3b

Pidgin

OpenOffice

[X1R1]

Pidgin or AMSN

Exile(like amarok but for GNOME desktop)

OpenOffice

Brasero

CompizFusion to have amazing desktop efects and desktop cube

Firefox

GIMP

[bhishan]

I meant the ones that are not bundled with ubuntu on default.

[pbpersson]

The only two that were mentioned that are installed by default are Firefox and OpenOffice. The rest you need to search for in Synaptic and install yourself.

[SuperSonic4]

Deluge for bitorrent
VLC for videos
k3b (or Brasero + Soundjuicer if you don't want the kde libs)
XSane for scanning
wicd to manage your network
exaile (or amarok 1.4) for audio
soundconverter for converting audio
k9copy (or dvdrip) for ripping dvds

the following are not apps but important nonetheless and can be found searching in synaptic:

ubuntu-restricted-extras (a metapackage of popular codecs)
w32codecs/w64codecs (more codecs)
lame (mp3 encoder)
faac (m4a/aac encoder)
faad (m4a/aac decoder)
ffmpeg (command line media converter)
mencoder (another media converter)
libdvdcss2 (to play encrypted dvds)

[speedwell68]

I find Songbird is best for managing an iPod.

[MadCow108]

easystroke is very useful (mouse gesture program)

[riza hylviu]

Inkscape for vector graphics- one of the best open source softwares.
aMsn instant messaging
blender for 3d animations
screenlets-- useful and eyecandy tools

[kutchbhi]

easystroke
zsh (better than bash)

[BuffaloX]

Zim for organizing notes.
xbindkeys for making keyboard shortcuts for any key or combinations.

[.Maleficus.]

Vim - best text editor ever made
abcde - one of the best Linux audio rippers
htop - system monitoring program, easier to use than top
Deluge/rtorrent - Deluge for GUI torrent downloading, rtorrent for console use
elinks - useful to have installed if you ever can't boot to your GUI and need to get on the internet
mplayer - very nice video player, can be compiled with VDPAU support if you use Nvidia

Most of the other stuff I use is pretty specialized.

[chucky chuckaluck]

i've never burnt a coaster with k3b. vlc, for me, has been the least pain in the asterisks. i like cplay, which is to mpd what checkers is to chess. streamripper is king.

[nathang1392]

songbird is nice, frostwire for p2p, and umm... that last fm radio is nice.

[bhishan]

Deluge for bitorrent
VLC for videos
k3b (or Brasero + Soundjuicer if you don't want the kde libs)
XSane for scanning
wicd to manage your network
exaile (or amarok 1.4) for audio
soundconverter for converting audio
k9copy (or dvdrip) for ripping dvds

the following are not apps but important nonetheless and can be found searching in synaptic:

ubuntu-restricted-extras (a metapackage of popular codecs)
w32codecs/w64codecs (more codecs)
lame (mp3 encoder)
faac (m4a/aac encoder)
faad (m4a/aac decoder)
ffmpeg (command line media converter)
mencoder (another media converter)
libdvdcss2 (to play encrypted dvds)

Thank you SuperSonic4.

[TheIdiotThatIsMe]

Gnome-Do (http://do.davebsd.com/), hands down. Might take a little while to get used to, but it completely changes how you use your computer. I've heard people liken it to Quicksilver for Macs, but I've never used that so I can't comment on it. But it's definitely worth checking out. It's available in the repos.

[akoskm]

KDE with Amarok 2 moved backward. I really like Banshee, it's usable like Amarok 1.4 was.
OpenOffice
Pidgin

[upchucky]

TomBoy notes
Gnome Commander, a dual pane file manager
wireshark for net management
Fspot photo manager
Qcad
Wine for some windows apps that one simply must have.

[mamamia88]

Gnome-Do (http://do.davebsd.com/), hands down. Might take a little while to get used to, but it completely changes how you use your computer. I've heard people liken it to Quicksilver for Macs, but I've never used that so I can't comment on it. But it's definitely worth checking out. It's available in the repos.
+1 love the ability to press windows + space and type the name of the app i want to open

[drawkcab]

VLC is a great little media player to have

Deluge is a fantastic bittorrent client, missing a few control features that utorrent has but extremely fast and efficient

Hydrogen drum machine is fun to play around with.

I have heard so much about gnome do, I am going to try that one out next.

[inobe]

all the restricted extras

mobile media converter snatches ytube vids and encodes them to whatever.

avidemux cool for chopping and editing

handbrake "rips" w- one click

xine for watching stuff via smb

mplayer+ffmpeg+vdpau acceleration "high def video"

samba