Sunbird is a calendar application built by the people at the Mozilla Foundation. It s entirely standalone: it doesn t require the bulk of another application

GParted is probably one of the best hard drive partition programs that are out there for Linux right now. It supports plenty of different format types, and can create, destroy, resize, move, check and copy different partitions. It s written in C and uses GTK for the frontend.

WiFi Radar is a sweet Ubuntu Application to set up and configure your wireless connections through an easy, intuitive inferface. This Ubuntu wireless utility is created with Python/pyGTK2, and can scan for available networks and create wireless profiles.

There s what seems like a half-billion applications for Linux that work on Ubuntu. And honestly, that s a lot to go through. So, I decided to compile a list of some of my favorite sources for Ubuntu applications. Enjoy, and feel free to add your favorites in the comments!

Gmail Notifier is an application to notify you of your Gmail linux messages right on the desktop. It s similar to MSN Messenger in the way it pops up messages. And, it even works for Mac and Windows if you have other operating systems installed. Gmail linux is relatively easy to install, and can be done in a way similar to other Ubuntu applications.

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