Tilda (a Linux terminal alternative)

Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is hit.
Tilda has many features for you :

• Key binding to show and hide tilda. This is very useful, because we not always need terminal program, but when need it, just press the key binding (I’m using F9 to bind it).
• It just have a terminal window, tab-bar, and scrollbar (if needed). Without menu bar and status bar, so the view is more large.

Website : http://tilda.sourceforge.net
Install :

sudo apt-get install tilda

Tips : Make your machine to start it automatically, so when we need terminal, just press it’s keybinding (I’m using F9).

Extreme Tux Racer (3D Games)

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Extreme Tux Racer is a 3D game for linux machine. Extreme Tux Racer based on PlanetPenguin Racer 0.3.1, and borrowing some source code from 0.5alpha, so as to maintain backwards compatibility with Tux Racer which was severely damaged in the alpha version.

It was originally intended that the project should be called PlanetPenguin Racer and just be a new set of developers continuing work on the same game.
Website : http://www.extremetuxracer.com
Install :

sudo apt-get install extremetuxracer

Picasa 3 for Linux (Graphic)

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Picasa is a software application for organizing and editing digital photos, originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004.

This software is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. The current version for linux when this article release is 3.0 beta.
With Picasa, you can :

• Sync between your Picasa and Picasa web album.
• Edit your images.
  There is many features available for retouching your photos in linux using Picasa, such as Cropping, Straighten, Red eye correction, Auto Contrast, Auto Color, Retouching your photos, Add text, Lightning effect.
• Print captions.
• Upload easily to Picasa web album.
  
• Control your Picasa web albums settings.
• Manage folders on your computer.
• Get more information about your photos.
  With this feature, you can view your meta information from your photos, like camera type, shutter speed, apperture size, focal length, and ISO.

Website : http://picasa.google.com/linux
Install : download it’s package, and install it using your favorites installer software such dpkg or GDebi.
Tip : Create your Picasa Web Album at http://picasaweb.google.com, and enjoy both.

Chromium Web Browser (Web Browser)

Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome. It has large view, without main menu and append titlebar with tabbar, so you feel surf largerly.
Website : http://code.google.com/intl/en/chromium
Install :
Add the following code to your /etc/apt/sources.list file :

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Then run :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

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