Kooka – scan software

Kooka is an intuitive, easy to use open source scan and Optical Character Recogniton (OCR) suite. Kooka has been the scan application of choice for the KDE project and is an official part of the KDE Graphics Package. However, Kooka

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Skype – tool for free calls and chat

Skype for Linux is a version of Skype peer-to-peer Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) software for computers running a Linux-based operating system. It gives Linux users the opportunity to make free phone and video calls via the Internet worldwide. Skype

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Imgv – feature rich image viewer

Imgv is a powerful, free and open source image viewer. It runs on a number of different operating systems including Linux. With imgv it’s possible to execute powerful commands such as loading every .png and .mpg file that starts with

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QuteCom **AWOL**

QuteCom (formerly WengoPhone) is a free software SIP* compliant Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) client developed by the OpenWengo community. It lets users speak to other users of SIP compliant VoIP software without charge. However, QuteCom is more than just

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Cornice – image viewer

Cornice is a cross-platform image viewer written in Python, which is designed to be a free replacement of ACDSee. The software has a modest set of features, a refreshing change from the typical feature-bloat of many established image viewers. The

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Adobe Reader – view PDFs

Adobe Reader lets you open, view, search, digitally sign, verify, and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files. With Adobe’s LiveCycle server software, Reader also lets individuals participate in business processes and interact with many types of content more securely, both

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gtkpod – GUI podcast tool

gtkpod is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Apple’s iPod. It supports the first to fifth iPod generations including the iPod mini, iPod Photo, iPod Shuffle, iPod nano, and iPod Video. It allows you to import your existing iTunes database,

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Moneydance – easy to use personal finance software

Moneydance is a Java based fully-featured personal finance solution. Moneydance’s features include online banking and bill payment, budget creation and tracking, useful reporting and graphing capabilities, investment portfolio tracking, transaction and bill reminders, and data encryption to ensure the privacy

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KPDF – pdf viewer based on xpdf

KPDF is a KDE PDF (Portable Document Format) viewer based on the code of the Xpdf application. KPDF has some unique features such as continuous mode and presentation support. KPDF also allows text in .pdf’s to be read through KTTS

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AbiWord – free word processing program

AbiWord is a small, fast, feature-laden word processor similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks including typing papers, letters, reports, memos, etc. It provides most of the features that are normally found

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