(Picture Ubuntu Inside by Kordite)
Phatch
Now how many time did you have couple of photos and needed to do the same editing on them. It could be just resize or something other, but you needed to open every single one and repeat that action. Now there is one cool program for photo and batch, Phatch. You can do: resizing, adding watermark, text, shadow, rotate pictire, … But there is no crop, I needed it couple of time but isn’t there.
Motion
(http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome)
Motion is a motion detection software. If you have camera it’s funny tool to play with. Has a lot of options about sensitivity, output type and other. If you have a large family, or if you’re student and have couple of roommates you can spy who is touching your computer.
StarDict
(http://stardict.sourceforge.net/)
When I used Windows there was a great program called Babylon it’s a commercial dictionary but has some great features like adding multiply dictionaries like Britanica, Oxford, Merriam Webster and also French, German, Chinese and other. When I switched to Linux I missed it a lot. But than I find out about StarDict it’s open source opponent of Babylon. There are also dictionary converters so I was able to convert Babylon dictionaries to StarDict format. There is also an option that if you select a word in other applications and press a defined key you get a popup with definition of the word.
RemsterSys
(http://geekconnection.org/remastersys/remastersystool.html)
With RamasterSys you can create your own Live Linux distro by modifying Ubuntu and share it with your friends. Its made for Debian and Ubuntu. If you are using different Linux distro there are similar tools for every distro like mklivecd for Mandriva. There is a great tutorial about RemasterSys here.
TrueCrypt
TrueCrypt is a multi platform tool able to create crypted partitions using many algorithms. You can use it on Linux, Windows and Mac without any trouble. Basicly it creates a crypted file which can be mounted as partition, but you can also crypt the whole partition. Crypting a system partition can be only done on Windows, it’s possible to crypt a Linux system partition but not with TrueCrypt.
OpenShot
(http://www.openshotvideo.com/)
OpenShot was mad by Jonathan Thomas, when he installed Ubuntu back in 2008. he saw that there is no good video editor for Ubuntu so he decided to make his own. It’s made for GNOME using Python, GTK and MLT framefork. It’s relatively new program and right now exists for Debian based distos and Arch Linux. OpenShot is very powerful, simple and easy to use, it’s not quit stable but you should give him a shot.
EasyTAG
(http://easytag.sourceforge.net/)
If you have a large collection of Mp3s on your hard drive you might want to install EasyTAG. It’s a great tool for editing ID3 tags in multiply mp3s. Not just that it can also rename your tracks to lets say Artist – Song name.mp3. It also supports: MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio and WavPac. There are packages for every distribution or if you like you can download source and compile it.
Just remember: you’re not a ‘dummy,’ no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who–though technically expert–couldn’t design hardware and software that’s usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.
Non of the applications you listed were developed by ubuntu, the topic is very misleading and doesn’t give credit to the various project that developed the 7 applications you reviewed
Most of these, if not all of them, are general FLOSS/Linux applications, not Ubuntu applications.
They're still good applications, though. Motion has come in hand on more than one occasion when I was using it to monitor my home while on vacation.
I know that they are all Linux applications, but that means that they are also Ubuntu applications. There is no application that is just for Ubuntu and not for other Linux distributions.