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Miro is a powerful open-source media player (music and video), centering a media digesting-optimized interface with numerous controls and functionalities.

Among its features, there are video download, ability to convert to and between numerous file formats, fast torrent download, option to create playlists, etc.

Moreover, Miro comes with support for built-in sources, including YouTube, Hulu, PBS, etc, thus the user is able to directly from-inside-Miro enjoy online content.

Ubuntu Touch is to feature by default (at its official launch) a set of default applications, labeled as Core Apps, essentially, useful carefully-crafted apps like Calculator, Weather, Facebook, etc.

Meaning, (filtered through various hardware manufacturers' desires and requirements) users enjoying a touch-based equipped-with-Ubuntu-Touch device will utilize fancy, polished and modern default applications.

Master PDF Editor is a powerful full-of-features PDF and XPS editing tool, presenting itself as a handy, highly-usable editor for PDF files (documents, large books, etc) with numerous functionalities.

Calibre is an advanced high-quality no-compromise e-book library management application, designed in mind (and implemented accordingly) with a vast and diverse set of features, including hassle-free e-book conversion, dedicated e-book reader, online-based metadata download, etc.

Calibre 0.9.27 has been released, introducing two new exciting online sources for cover downloads, additions extending Calibre's manner of finding and exposing covers from powerful online sources.

Stellarium is a free open-source planetarium that gathers a massive amount of functionalities under a pleasant-to-the-eye filled-with-graphical-details interface.

More than 600,000 stars by default, fancily-rendered constellations, support for twelve cultures, realistic sunrise, sunset and atmosphere, planets with satellites, etc, are among the features incorporated into Stellarium.

Stellarium 0.12.1 has been released, introducing new features, such as:

After the months ago's public announcement and availability of Ubuntu Touch, the developers centered Ubuntu SDK as the first class citizen when creating apps for Ubuntu for phones and Ubuntu for tablets, being usable for the desktop, too.

At the heart of Ubuntu SDK stands Qt Creator, powerful, modern and versatile IDE (integrated development environments) featuring solid functionalities, such as code editor for C++, QML, syntax highlighting, code completion, fast code navigation tools, etc.

20 million users adopted Ubuntu as their operating system of choice, OS suitable for school exams, work projects, in-the-future goals, etc.

Along with the massive number of Ubuntu users come numerous ways of expressing appreciation for Ubuntu, among which interesting situations for using Ubuntu components, as in the case of an Ubuntu-branded marzipan cake.

Days ago, the developers announced the exciting work on the Ubuntu SDK Apps Collection, development effort aimed at gathering into a singular place numerous and numerous created-by-Ubuntu-community Ubuntu-SDK-based applications.

Essentially, Ubuntu's Alan Pope and Ubuntu's Michael Hall are currently guiding app-creation processes and land submitted apps in the official Ubuntu SDK Apps Collection PPA.

The Friends' appearance in the Ubuntu world has traversed an interesting development road: initially, Ubuntu's Ken VanDine announced the start on creating from-scratch a new Gwibber backend designed in mind with high-performance, smoothness and fluidity, then Friends was revealed as the new Gwibber backend, followed by its official release and finally being

Ubuntu Touch is the pure Ubuntu experience filtered through a touch-based interface, aimed at powering (in the future) phones and tablets with modern, polished and solid interfaces.

Days ago, the developers announced the availability of Ubuntu Touch images based on Ubuntu 13.04 (, too), development process rooted into progressively shifting the touch operating system to Raring Ringtail.