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Months and months ago, Canonical announced the Smart Scopes project,--as part of the online Dash initiative--, designed in mind with significantly extending the Dash's search capabilities.

Essentially, the developers are to probably implement in Ubuntu 13.10 a vast, handy and diverse bundle of default scopes, including Wikipedia, IMDb, Clementine, Audacious, Yahoo! Finance, etc, making them available at a press of a button directly via Dash home.

Speed, stability and an overall fluid OS are descriptions expressed by a significant number of users related to Ubuntu 13.04, release taking Ubuntu to a more optimized and powerful experience.

Starting on Tuesday, the 14th of May 2013, the second online UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) is taking place for three days, official online event that gathers numerous and numerous Ubuntu developers into a serious discussion about upcoming changes, plans and development goals for Saucy Salamander.

Months ago, the LibreOffice developers started a solid work on completely changing the old LibreOffice dialogs from the currently-used classic fixed widgets (size) to a new .UI format.

Essentially, the old dialog structure renders improperly the LibreOffice dialogs, (like for example) rendering very long buttons and fields for short text pieces due to multiple factors.

20 million users use Ubuntu, persons from across the world enjoying a powerful, versatile, modern and reliable operating system.

Among its numerous qualities, community involvement plays a relevant role on developing Ubuntu as a whole, Ubuntu-passionate users contributing code, translations, ideas, should-bes, etc.

Traditionally, the terminal features a spartan interface with powerful command capabilities, allowing users to manage operating systems via a direct text-based experience.

Final Term is a definitely interesting terminal emulator that takes the terminal metaphor to a superior, modern and innovative ground.

Essentially, Final Term adds into a terminal multiple and diverse functionalities, enriching the command-line utility with fancy additions, while rooted in both good-looks and usefulness.

Just weeks after the official release of Ubuntu 13.04, the now-in-development Saucy Salamander has already started to receive new and new packages, being immersed into a vigorous development process.

Details are minor, yet, there are details that sometimes make the difference between a mediocre and a good experience, details positioning its app into a clarity-wise ground.

Xnoise is a fancy media player incorporating numerous features into a polished worked-on-detail interface, overall app paired with numerous tweakable options (under Xnoise-->Edit-->Preferences).

Xnoise 0.2.18 has been released, introducing a bundle of refinements and optimizations, covering its both under-the-hood and visible components.

Among the changes, there are:

LibreOffice is a powerful full-of-features free open-source office suite used by millions of people from across the world.

Along with the development of LibreOffice, the LibreOffice developers (and the overall project's team) are currently involved in helping entities (governments, state departments, schools, etc) to shift from proprietary office suites to LibreOffice.

The adoption of LibreOffice allows organizations to use a heavily-and-constantly developed office bundle that comes with support for numerous file formats, preferences, requirements and demands.

gCAD3D is a handy powerful-yet-lightweight 3D CADCAM application that groups numerous functionalities under a filled-with-controls interface.

Among its features, there are:

• integrated 3D OpenGL viewer
• built-in NC-processor
• 3D program interpreter for geometry and NC commands
• import/export abilities for DXF, SVG, VRML, Step, Iges, etc

gCAD3D has been updated to version 2.10, introducing interesting features and improvements.

We are, are we not, surrounded by informations, informations used by televisions, schools, newspapers, research studies, etc, informations that sometimes must be encapsulated (into various media) for further usage.

Qreator is a handy useful utility that allows the user to create QR codes from various sources, thus imprinting informations into a fancy-and-useful QR code.