Software

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• https://addons.mozilla.org/collection/muras
• https://addons.mozilla.org/collection/muras-firefox

• Audio/video editing:
  • to check: jokosher
  • to check (for webcam): cheese

• Useless but nice:
  • electricsheep
  • ...

• video editing:
  • PiTiVi
  • ...

• compare directories:
  • dirdiff
  • Meld

gnome-schedule

To mount a remote folder accessible through SSH, you can use sshfs (together with fuse-utils, which should be already installed in the system).

• sshfs#my-remote-user@my-remote-host:/home/my-remote-user /my-local-filesystem/remotefs fuse user,noauto 0 0

Massy page, but I use it frequently for reference ;-) vsftp (installation comments) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/muras

Programming

I'm starting to test this GUI: PythonCard - GUI construction framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using Python.

OCR & PDF

• tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-ita tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr-fra tesseract-ocr-spa
• gocr (meno performante di tesseract, ma forse più customizzabile... da approfondire...)
• GUI sperimentate con soddisfazione: gscan2pdf (Ubuntu Repository)
• GUI sperimentate, ma che non hanno entusiasmato: gImageReader (GTK GUI, v. 0.8.1), OCRFeeder (GTK GUI, v. 0.6.6)

Cryptography-related

• TrueCrypt: Could be used with Dropbox for enhanced security (as suggested here).

Password Safe

• http://keepass.info/
• KeePassX: recommended.

Dropbox on Ubuntu

Explanations on the website are extremely clear. Anyway: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nautilus-dropbox/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nautilus-dropbox/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 3565780E sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox

If you want to create a DropBox account on the basis of my description of the service, please use the following link, https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTE1ODEyNjg5, so that I can get a few additional MB of storage (and you too!).

Some favorite (K)ubuntu packages.

1. Repositories
• Skype
  Simply add the following line to your sources.list file (usually /etc/apt/sources.list): "deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free" Now you can use apt-get update to sync to latest repository and then apt-get install skype to install Skype.
• OpenOffice: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main

Photography related stuff

autopano-sift

hugin

Graphics:

gimp

inkscape

Internet

"firefox-3.0"

"thunderbird"

"lightning-extension"

"ekiga" Multimedia: mozilla-plugin-vlc moonlight-plugin-mozilla and related packages

Office and the like:

openoffice.org

freemind

Games

• frozen-bubble
• lbreakout2
• pathological
• pacman
• pingus
• wormux
• wesnoth

Cellar phone managerment (through Bluetooth):

gammu;

wammu (Gammu GUI);

gMobileMedia for files (to try).

Funambol.com and Gnokii.org (to try synchronization).

Scientific and academic:

gretl: Econometric package

jabref: Reference manager

referencer: in corso di valutazione... apparentemente interessante per chi usa Ubuntu (o almeno Gnome).

"aspell" "ispell" "myspell-it"

Desktop manager related

compiz

LaTeX and BibTeX

• texmaker
• lyx
• kile
• openoffice.org-writer2latex

"mono-common"

"netcat"

"pandora"

System: parted

gparted

gpart

ntfsprogs

Instant Messenging

"pidgin"

"ripoff" "rsync" "ruby" "samba" "solarwolf" "strigi-client" "tomboy" "udev"

Gnome utilities I like

screenlets

compizconfig-settings-manager

gnome-launch-box

KDE utilities I like

digikam: digital photo management program;

k3b

kate

kcron

konqueror

kopete

YaKuake: inspired from the terminal of Quake: when you press F12 a terminal window slides down from the top of the screen.

Trying to compare these:

Rawstudio can read and convert RAW-images from many different cameras, including Nikon and Canon. Rawstudio uses dcraw.

UFRaw is a standalone tool to import raw data from high-end digital cameras.

Raw Therapee (???)

DigiKam and Krita "vlc"

Microsoft Windows dependency related stuff :-(

• Wine
• wine
• wine-gecko
• VirtualBox
• Fonts: ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Proprietary stuff<>

skype

DropBox

Others

It should not be necessary to install these programs as separate packages, but they saved me more than one and I would like not to forget them:

• wireless-tools
• wpasupplicant
• "network-manager"
To avoid, unless Samba is not working:
• "smb4k"
• Utilities:
• "lzma": Compression method of 7z format in 7-Zip program; LZMA is a compression algorithm.
• per installare quel che serve, in realtà, usare: sudo apt-get install p7zip p7zip-full
• "unrar": for WinRAR archives.

Libraries, drivers, etc. alsa-oss (Che Dio li benedica: sono gli unici che fanno funzionare il mio sistema audio!) Stuff I run with Wine: CombineZ (CombineZP is the latest version I used) To install in Wine: $ msiexec /i CombineZP.msi $ wine '/home/muras/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/CombineZP/CombineZP.exe' Copy in System32 the two missing DLLs that are in this folder (copied from Windows System32). WMASF.DLL WMVCORE.DLL You should have installed the wine-gecko package. (Otherwise, try to open the help file from within the program: Wine should ask you to install Gecko. Agree.) fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/sda8 UUID=02cede4a-2f08-43b1-a4ea-80bda57240be / ext3 nouser,relatime,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1 # /dev/sda9 UUID=24550b19-551c-4b62-a6bf-51a384a01937 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,utf8,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0 /dev/sda2 /media/ACER auto nouser,atime,auto,ro,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 /dev/sda5 /home/muras/Disco_dati vfat user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0 /dev/sda6 /home/muras/Documents auto users,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 /dev/sda7 /media/BAK auto users,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0 grsync GTK+ frontend for rsync simple graphical interface using GTK2 for the rsync command line program. luckybackup includes also a GUI for chron Things to try:

VirtualBox: x86 virtualization product under GNU GPL.

Audacity:

pdftk (e guipdftk o http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/ o simili) [syntax to concatenate: "pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output newFile.pdf": more info here: http://linux.com/archive/feature/53701 OR http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/]

Stuff (also) for Windows

SSH client

PuTTY Tips & Trics https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Drupal rolldice for instance, to roll 3d6 seeing all the separate results: rolldice -s 3d6

Potentially useful proprietary stuff

http://www.gnurou.org/blog/2008/09/09/finally_real_pdf_annotating_under_...
PDF-XChange Viewer
(xournal is a nice software, but the output is not very portable...) Per convertire una serie di immagini: mkdir smaller for img in `ls *.jpg`; do convert -sample 50%x50% $img ./smaller/$img; done

tiff2pdf -o mail.pdf mail.tiff

epub readers: FBReader, calibre

inkskape is able to convert from bitmap from vector... not bad, but you may want to try vectormagic.com online, if you're lazy...