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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)

Grip I have been using this for a year and it is my goto Markdown render-er. Here are its features: Markdown? Github Flavored Linux? Yes Normal? Yes It is a command line tool Offline? No There'...
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Simple program to edit screenshots (add texts and arrows, mark stuff) on Linux

Flameshot Super easy to use. I mapped it to my PrtSc.
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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)

Okular Okular has a Markdown backend, which allows it to display Markdown-formated text. On Debian-based systems (like Ubuntu) you might have to install the okular-extra-backends package to use it. ...
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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)

Following is copy of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9331281/how-can-i-test-what-my-readme-md-file-will-look-like-before-committing-to-github#40696607 by Brian Burns Atom works nicely out of the ...
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Screen capture tool with uploading to a server for Ubuntu?

You might wish to take a look at Shutter – which offers this and more: Shutter upload screenshots (click images for larger variants) As the screenshots show, Shutter allows you uploading to many ...
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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)

pandoc -s filename.md | lynx -stdin This doesn't meet the requirement of "... or anything else that requires usage of browser", but the browser runs in a terminal in text mode. https://pandoc.org/
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Simple program to edit screenshots (add texts and arrows, mark stuff) on Linux

HotShots Hotshots is a screenshot tool with some editing features. It is particularly suitable for writing documentation, but you can use it to highlight some details on a map image or what ever you ...
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WYSIWYG HTML editor for Linux

Update This answer is no longer valid. As notified in comment by @Dorian, this can no more be used for normal web development. Google Web Designer is a WYSIWYG html editor and much more. The design ...
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Tabbed text editor that autosaves even new files

You may use geany with the save actions plugin enabled (distributed by default with geany but may be disabled). Use the menu to navigate to Tools > Plugin Manager, then check the Save Actions ...
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PDF viewer and/or reader having feature to play animations

There is currently no (Free) PDF viewer for Ubuntu which is able to display these animations. You'll have to install Adobe Reader for Linux (the latest version available is 9, no more officially ...
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Tool for sketching / drawing / painting quickly (Linux / Ubuntu)

You can use Krita. Krita is a free sketching and painting program. It was designed for concept art, illustrations, and texture painting. You can see what features are Krita supports here. Krita is an ...
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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)

I find Retext fine as is answered but I do have digged out a few MD editors for linux that are more or less better than the solution suggested. If more they have additional features, and less so they ...
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Light, fully functional browser for ARM Ubuntu netbook, 512MB ram

Midori is a small open-source browser. It is available for a number of OS, including Ubuntu. It supports HTML5 and CSS3. It runs using the WebKit engine. It is very lightweight, requiring ...
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SQL Server client for Ubuntu

Thanks for your answers. Your suggestions sound good but they weren't as easy to start as what I used, which is DBeaver, a universal database tool for developers and database administrators. Easy ...
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Linux (Ubuntu) Alert on desktop on full local disk

Ubuntu already includes a disk space warning alert as part of dconf. You can configure the settings by installing the dconf-tools: sudo apt-get install dconf-tools Start the dconf Editor: dconf-...
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Software to batch OCR multiple image files to multiple text files using Tesseract?

In Bash: for file in FILES ; do tesseract "$file" "${file%%.*}" ; done where in place of FILES, you should write a series of file names like image456.jpeg image457.jpeg image458.jpeg, or a glob ...
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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)

There is also an amazing one here on GitHub appropriately named Glow... It's absolutely lightweight. You don't even need to leave the terminal. Works on Linux, Mac and Windows. Here's a simple ...
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What is the Yatse alternative for a Ubuntu PC?

You're most likely looking for an uPnP control point software (see e.g. DLNA Server/Control Point like Windows Media Player on our sister site). To my knowledge, there are only few products available ...
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Tabbed text editor that autosaves even new files

It's fairly pricy for a text editor with fairly liberal 'unlimited' trial period but sublime text does many of these things. Saves changes immediately As far as I can tell, yes. My workflow is ...
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Which software can I use to browse a MSSQL database?

Not sure if this will work for you, but you could try: DBeaver https://dbeaver.jkiss.org/download/
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Media player on Linux

VLC is the ultimate media player. Install the Ubuntu default repository version: sudo apt install vlc Install the latest version (has Blu-ray support): sudo snap install vlc How to make a ...
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Software to make Khan Academy style video tutorials, on Ubuntu

Krita is quite a nice alternative to GIMP, and a bit simpler. Here's a link: https://www.calligra.org/krita/ Here's some of the features: An adaptive multi-modal interface which works on the desktop ...
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Simple Markdown viewer for Ubuntu (standalone program, not something that requires usage of an internet browser)

Remarkable Features: Live preview It's free. Extremely lightweight Export to HTML, PDF Download: https://remarkableapp.github.io/
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Program to take photos with webcam in Ubuntu

You can do that with any video player that supports ffmpeg's libavdevice library, or video4linux directly, and have ability to take screenshots, in general. Or even ffmpeg's ffplay itself. Let's take ...
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Tabbed PDF viewer that works on Ubuntu

I have a rather different case to present here with no PDF reader recommendation, because it would make any PDF reader a tabbed reader. If you happen to have KDE 4.1x installed in your Linux box ...
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Software to make Khan Academy style video tutorials, on Ubuntu

Xournal is the best tool I found to write with a digital pen. It makes for a terrible image editor, but being able to move the traces that you've written/drawn around is a great feature. I recommend ...
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PDF viewer and/or reader having feature to play animations

I tested Adobe Reader on Ubuntu 14.04 and the animation on page 9 works fine. See this link to install it. I use Foxit Reader (on Windows and Ubuntu 14.04 with Wine) and Evince and neither show the ...
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Visual cron GUI

I would take a look at Gnome Scheduler (Yes, it's Gnome and run's on Ubuntu and it's free) GNOME GUI for configuring a users' cron (automatic jobs). Some of its features are: Templates support so ...
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Visual cron GUI

Edit: two hours after posting my answer, ComFreek detected it is the same product as in Tom's answer where it was named slightly different, and I didn't recognize it by the screenshot. For the ...
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Split mySQL tables into databases by prefix

You can do it with bash and mysql(dump). I don't have a MySQL right now to test it, but should be something like the following: mysql -uUSER -p SRC_DB -e 'show tables' | tail -n+2 | grep '^PREFIX' | ...
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