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Why this app? |
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Add/Remove |
Standard and great way to install apps, since you can see popularity, platform and description for each available application. |
Standard Ubuntu installation application. |
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Alarm Clock |
Simple to use, great tool for travel. |
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www.alarm-clock.pl |
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Calculator |
Standard and simple. |
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Character Map |
Usefull standard app. |
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Gnome Commander |
Two panels. Although inferior to Krusader, it is much more lightweight and for the time, the best two panel file manager for Gnome. |
Substitute for Total Commander on Windows. |
www.nongnu.org/gcmd |
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Gnote |
I have nothing against Mono and this choice was made only to reduce the size and increase speed. |
C++ port of Tomnotes. |
live.gnome.org/Gnote |
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Terminal |
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Text Editor |
Default, simple and fast. |
Gedit - default gnome text editor |
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DOSBox Emulator |
My oppinion was that instead of installing lots of games that take so much space or are not as great, it's much better to have dos emulator so that you can play your favorite old games. |
The best emularor for DOS, alowing you to play many great old games. |
www.dosbox.com |
| Games |
ZSNES Emulator |
There are great games for Super Nintendo, and are perfect for netbooks small screen. |
Super Nintendo emulator. |
www.zsnes.com |
| Graphics |
Cheese Webcam Booth |
It will recognize any USB or internal webcam, and you dont have to install any drivers. |
Take photos and videos with your webcam. |
www.gnome.org/projects/cheese |
| Graphics |
GNU Paint |
Simple, like paint im MS Windows. You never know weather you are gonna need it. |
A small scale painting program for gnome. |
www.gnu.org/software/gpaint |
| Graphics |
gThumb Image Viewer |
Fast and standard. |
Image viewer for gnome. |
gthumb.sourceforge.net |
| Internet |
Facebook |
Since its netbook and so many people use facebook, it's a must. |
Prism for facebook |
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| Internet |
Pidgin Internet Messanger |
Great app and simple to configure. |
Graphical messaging client capable of connecting to gtalk, AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, XMPP, ICQ, IRC, SILC, SIP, GroupWise, Lotus, Bonjour, Zephyr, MySpaceIM, Gadu-Gadu and QQ. |
pidgin.im |
| Internet |
Prism |
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| Internet |
Shiretoko (Firefox 3.5) |
No need to explain why. Chromium is lighter, but it does not have as many features nor add-ons as firefox. |
Internet Browser |
www.mozilla.com |
| Internet |
Twitter |
Since it's netbook and so many people are using it, it's a must. |
Prism for twitter |
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| Office |
AbiWord |
Uses open document format and can read all the formats, including new MS Word's docx. Its faster and much smaller than OpenOffice, and for such a small screen, it has all the features you might ever need. |
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to MS Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. |
www.abisource.com |
| Office |
Evolution |
Great mail, calendar, contacts application that looks like MS Outlook. |
Evolution provides integrated mail, addressbook and calendaring functionality. |
projects.gnome.org/evolution
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| Office |
Gnumeric |
Lightweight and easy to use. |
Gnumeric is intended to be a replacement for a commercial spreadsheet. |
projects.gnome.org/gnumeric
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| Sound & Video |
Totem Movie Player |
Standard and light. |
Movie player with preinstalled codecs. |
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| Sound & Video |
Rhythmbox Music Player |
Not the best one, but still powerfull. It is standard for gnome. |
Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. |
projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox |
| Sound & Video |
Sound Recorder |
Simple and default for gnome. |
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VLC media player |
It plays everything, and many people are already familiar with it. |
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats |
www.videolan.org/vlc |
| Preferences |
Keyboard Shortcuts |
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| Preferences |
Mein Menu |
In case you would like to change something. |
Menu editor |
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| Preferences |
Power Management |
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| Preferences |
Preferred Applications |
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| Preferences |
Sessions |
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Windows |
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| Administration |
Remastersys |
To backup your system |
Backup tool |
geekconnection.org/remastersys/remastersystool.html |
| Administration |
Services |
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Software Sources |
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| Administration |
Synaptic |
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| Administration |
System Monitor |
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Time and Date |
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Update Manager |
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Weather Report |
Wherever you go, you need to know weather. |
A panel application for monitoring local weather conditions. |
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| Panel |
System monitor |
So you can see how much of your CPU is being used. |
Capable of displaying graph for CPU. |
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| Panel |
Force Quit |
Apps crash sometimes, even on linux. |
Force a misbehaving application to quit. |
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| Panel |
eee control |
Alowes you to chose performance level and turn wifi, cardreader or webcam on or off. This way you can greatly increasy battery life. |
Utility for controling EEE pc hardware. |
greg.geekmind.org/eee-control |
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Network Manager |
Nice and easy to use. |
Notification area applet for managing your network devices and connections. |
www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager |
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