GnuCash is a personal finance and accounting application created to keep you crazy organized. It can do simple things like recording expenses and take care of register transactions, but it can also handle tracking bank accounts, income, and a slew of financial instruments and derivatives.

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

After years of using proprietary operating systems, switching to something new can be a difficult task. One of the hardest things is finding new programs to replace all of the old applications you used to use, especially when there is a wealth of different options.

gLabels is a nifty little GNOME application used to make business cards and labels. I used to do it in OpenOffice, but that was starting to become kind of a pain. To make it nice and easy, gLabels will work with a whole bunch of different labels

Gaupol provides support for a variety of different text-based subtitle files, and can help you get that video or DVD project corrected, synchronized, and back on track.

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.

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!