I guess it has to do with Google's targeting ads stuff. Google openly admits that they systematically track users (well, I guess the type of ads they give you sort of give it away...).

agree with all, except the mp4 case.
in my linux mint, all the players (totem, mplayer) are runing mp4 smoothly.
but a good and clear video converter it's a must and so much needed.

MPlayer has encoder capabilities, I use it to "recompile" AVI's (xvid or what ever) with bad indexes. You should be able to convert from any to any supported codec.

I'd like to see office 2007, just like the look and feel of Outlook.. one note,

Converters & players that work.
 

Have you tried DownloadHelper? Its a Firefox tool. Its just perfect for youtube !! You don't have to turn it into an mp4 either. Mplayer will run .flv files if you have all the codecs. :twocents:

Firefox is easy to manipulate.

There is also another great online utility for this Http://media-convert.com. It will make anything into practically anything else. You pay for and install nothing, just link to it in Bookmarks.:cool:

hmailserver
 

I would like to see hmailserver because it is so easy to setup, administer, use

Its absolutely brilliant

I'd like to see both Quicken 2006 thru 2010 & corresponding versions of TurboTax ported to Linux of all flavors. I'm TOO OLD to learn double-entry bookkeeping... :-( Using both via WINE would be okay as I don't use any of the on-line features... other than filing the taxes.

See if there is any Linux programs that do similar things. Go to your software updater and type in taxes or business or something like that.

If you're paranoid like me, you probably keep each version of the software you filed along with the filing data (ie not just the PDF of the actual taxes, but the PDF, the printouts, and the actual data files).

Supposing an opensource program comes out that read these previous data files? That would be pretty cool.

http://www.moneydance.com/. But it is not opensource, I just saw, sorry.

But here is something that might be promising:
http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/faq.html#question4

And as far as I can read, GnuCash can also import QIF files.

And TurboTax has/wil have online version.

Hello all,

I'm a three week Ubuntu/K-K newbie. Finally got fed up with MS updates MeSsing me up regularly.

I'd like to see several screen readers cloned such as JAWs, HAL, NVDA for starters. I work with two blind groups and use these to examine pages that I and they build. I haven't kick-started Orca yet, but I'm gonna, soon. Since different screen readers, aka text-to-speech programs, render pages and tags slightly differently for each users preferences, a variety is needed for testing AND individual use. A screen magnifier or two would be nice too ... I think I remember seeing at least one in the software-available list ... got to look it over again. If there were a way to use these programs much more easily under Linux I'm sure the blind community would appreciate it so much, mainly because some programs like JAWs are so good, but also so expensive! So many more handicapped people could enjoy the web and computers in general! I don't want to put JAWs out of business, but the advantages of a good scriptable screen reader are immeasurable.

Dreamweaver would be nice, but my first choice would be NoteTab with it's program interface through it's marvellous clip library to open every browser I have, (including the WebTV viewer which I'm surprised worked under wine first time through!) and to use HTML-Tidy and CSS-Tidy on targeted files, and it's other clip uses for file and text and script processing including HTML, CSS, PHP, etc. etc. and another etc. I want NoteTab. I want NoteTab. I want NoteTab. I want NoteTab. Just had to throw a little tantrum there. Now I feel better. I've got it sort-of working under wine, but the program interface is rough to figure out. Haven't done that yet.

e-Sword!! ... I just got it working yesterday through wine and winetweeks after a three day battle. Sorry, didn't mean to wine ... uh whine. Yeah the programs that use Sword are OK, but that's all they are ... OK. e-Sword is the winner!

I like Iranview for what work I do with graphics. I don't need to do any extensive work on each file so resizing and converting from one format to several, red-eye reduction, building an occasional .exe or .scr file and a bit of orientation is all I need. Irfanview wouldn't be necessary, but it sure would be nice. Maybe after I get the time to use some of the distribution packages' graphics programs I'll find one that'll do nicely.

e-Sword
 

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e-Sword!! ... I just got it working yesterday through wine and winetweeks after a three day battle. Sorry, didn't mean to wine ... uh whine. Yeah the programs that use Sword are OK, but that's all they are ... OK. e-Sword is the winner!

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e-Sword is great - and it has an on-line version.

If you used Kubuntu rather than Ubuntu, so that you had KDE, you could use its built in magnifier. You have to have desktop effects enabled (some of them are very useful) and then you get a very graceful magnifier.

I don't use such programs for my web design, BUT, SeaMonkey has a decent WYSIWYG editor. If you wanted to work in code Kate (another KDE application) has some good features.

I'm fairly sure that I've heard of Irfanview being used successfully, but not absolutely certain. In any case, the GIMP might be worth a look. It can be a little overwhelming at first but it's worth it.

Hope that helps.

Irfanview is great! I use it through Wine and I've had no problems.

ROOT is a data analysis program used by High Energy Physicist in many part of the world.So it would be on the top of my list