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Blender is a versatile full-fledged 3D suite for animation, modelling, rendering, post-production, interactive creation, etc, designed with a professional interface, support for widely used formats, numerous plugins, speed, etc.

Tears of Steel is definitely a captivating short film, produced by creative developers with Blender, clearly proving that open source technologies are suitable when creating professional movies with fancy effects, proper animations, etc.

Weeks ago, Mozilla announced a new approach that is to be adopted by Thunderbird, meaning, the Thunderbird developers are to be focused on security and critical development for Thunderbird, while allowing interested developers to progress on and enrich Thunderbird's components.

Yet, it seems that official development on Ubuntu's default email client is happening, furthermore, aimed at relevant parts of Thunderbird.

Adopting Amazon in Unity 6.6 (in Ubuntu 12.10) triggered various complains and concerns across the internets, mainly related to Amazon-specific results appearing on Dash home after typing words in the search area.

Shortly, various Ubuntu developers have step-by-step explained the decision behind the Amazon's landing, and, the developers have started the work on implementing a clickable user-friendly manner of disabling/enabling commercial results (touching all of Unity, not limited to Dash's home).

Unity Shopping lens has landed (by default) in Ubuntu 12.10's Unity 6.6, landing triggering various complains across the web, complains ranging from identifying Amazon-based Dash results as ads to concerns related to user's privacy and security, latter aspects widely known and acknowledged as Ubuntu's core values.

Days ago, Unity 6.6 landed in Ubuntu 12.10, introducing, along with exciting new features and refinements, a new lens, Unity Shopping lens, that pushes (when the user searches items in Dash's home view) Amazon results, clicking on an Amazon result, opens it via the default web-browser (consequently, the user is able to purchase the clicked item).

Ubuntu ships by default Gwibber, a powerful social client, that allows users to use Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook, etc, from one global interface, furthermore, adding a dedicated lens (available via Ubuntu Software Center, available by default starting with Ubuntu 12.10).

Nevertheless, various users, across the internets, are stating that, while Gwibber features a pleasant-to-the-eye interface and wide support for numerous services, lacks speed and fluidity, especially on scrolling through its displayed contacts.

Computers and operating systems have definitely evolved across the years, caring and constantly enhancing one's use cases in relation with a computer, aspect that (sometimes) tends to occupy one's time spent when dealing with tasks, sometimes in detriment to other more important activities.

Time Timer is a lightweight yet interesting utility, aimed at "forcing" the user to stop computer-related activities after a period of time.

Basically, Time Timer presents the user a Unity launcher icon, containing all of its functionalities.

Ubuntu ships by default LibreOffice, a powerful full-fledged office suite that incorporates a wide range of functionalities, features, tools, etc, bundle of functionalities constantly developed by a massive group of developers.

Since its implementation in Ubuntu, users, across the web, have generated complains related to LibreOffice's look, mainly in expression similar to "LibreOffice is great, powerful, fast, yet its look must be aligned with its features".

VirtualBox is a handy powerful utility, that allows the user to install operating systems inside one's actual production machine, thus the user is able to test, run, learn about, access specific apps from various OSes, etc.

After an OS is installed as a virtual machine, searching a specific virtual machine is to be performed by opening VirtualBox and locating the searched item, actions followed by further clicks (necessary to open the actual OS).

Unity VM lens is a useful lens, housing virtual machines created via VirtualBox in the "warmth" of the Dash.

Days ago, Unity 6.6 landed in Ubuntu 12.10 introducing exciting new visual additions, eyecandy elements, Dash animation, enhanced Previews, etc, both refreshing and heavily improving the already-polished Unity.