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Appnr: Web-based app director and installer for Ubuntu

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Appnr is a web-based directory of applications for Ubuntu Linux. You can also launch Ubuntu's package manager to install any application on the site with a click of a button.

Nothing to write home about there. You can get a list of apps for Ubuntu by firing up the Synaptic package manager from your desktop. But Appnr differentiates itself in at least two ways:
  1. You can sort applications alphabetically or by how popular the downloads are.
  2. The software description pages are much more informative than the brief, text-only descriptions you'll find in the Synaptic package manger.
The popularity rankings are nice. But it's the fleshed out details page that are really useful. Each page includes related image, video, web, and blog search results. That makes it easy to find screenshots of the application in question, an official product page (or Wikipedia or other page), and recent posts from blogs that have written about applications.

[via MakeUseOf]

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