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#16
It seems I've hit a brick wall with this little project.

I've found myself in need of a good task manager, but I do not want to use Google Calendar (which, as it stands, seems pretty masochistic). I've gotten rid of Thunderbird, but after finding out about Lightning, I'm kind of regretting that now. I could use wyrd/remind, but I need to be able to sync up with a mobile device instead of just using my computer. If only Lightning was a standalone app...

Meh. A different topic for a different thread. More apps!

bs
This one's far from BS though. Battleship can be played with anything, ranging from pen-and-paper to smartphones. While this implementation of Battleship doesn't fall far from the pen-and-paper tree, it's still pretty effective. However, I still feel as if this game is best played with a friend rather than the computer. Just gives a more genuine experience IMHO.

bc
RZR mentioned this, and after looking it up, I've already gotten rid of Galculator. It's very sophisitcated as a command-line calculator, and handles pretty well. It even handles the standard C operators!

However, using it as a scientific calculator is pretty much over my head. I'll keep my TI-84 handy for that. Otherwise, that's one less GUI app!

netsurf-fb
I haven't gotten around to integrating it with Mutt to parse HTML, but it's definitely the most functional web browser independant of X I've seen thus far. If only it had a Javascript blacklist...

I have no idea how it will behave with Mutt, but if it's anything like w3m is, then it'll work wonders.

surfraw
Search utilities right from the terminal? Yes, please! The plugin for oh-my-Zsh works alright, but surfraw is even better. I can use Google, DuckDuckGo, IxQuick, Arch Linux's package database (more on that later), etc. Very simple, to boot!

arch-wiki-lite/arch-wiki-docs
Offline version of the ArchWiki. The former lacks HTML, and as such, is easily viewable from the command line. The latter, however, has HTML, and must be viewed from a web browser. From Firefox, it doesn't look much different than the standard web-based interface (which is definitely a good thing). Same can be said of Netsurf.

Honestly, I believe that having the documentation to your operating system (and, in the case of ArchWiki, whatever's installed on it) already on your computer is vital. This is especially true for arguably the best reference material for Linux available.