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Onboard is Ubuntu's default virtual keyboard, that allows the user to benefit a full-fledged virtual keyboard, featuring full key set, number and function (such as F1, F2, F3, etc) buttons, etc, bundle of features contained into a desktop-integrated interface.

Onboard 0.98 has landed in Ubuntu 12.10, continuing its road towards further improvements, presenting itself as mainly an under-the-hood focused release.

Weeks ago, the Messaging Menu adopted a refreshed look & feel, introducing specific names for contained applications and various minor visual changes.

The latest updates landed in Ubuntu 12.10 add refinements to the Messaging Menu, further continuing the work on enhancing the Unity panel's envelope.

Humble Indie Bundle 6 has just been released, being now available via its usual purchase method, consequently, gamers can enjoy DRM-free exciting games by paying an amount of money ("you can pay whatever you want").

After the actual purchase, the games can be installed via Ubuntu Software Center for a proper easy install method.

Nuvola Player is a pleasant-to-the-eye music player, designed with incorporating cloud-based music services into a fancy desktop interface in mind, allowing the user to play millions and millions of music tracks from one global desktop-integrated application (without a web-browser).

Months ago, the developers launched Ubuntu App Showdown, an exciting contest aimed at selecting winners from a 3 weeks-long open contest (time allowed for apps to be developed), where interested users submitted applications that, after an judging process, won prizes.

The mentioned prizes were expressed as a first prizing stage, followed by the second stage, where community votes established three new winners of Nokia N9 smartphones (following a publicly available voting webpage).

Along with numerous overall user interface changes landed in Quantal, Unity greeter has received minor yet numerous refinements, transforming the greeter into a more polished, visually precise and worked-on-detail login experience.

The latest updates bring a new version of Unity greeter in Quantal Quetzal, further adding subtle user interface changes.

At login, in order to select a different session, the user clicks the login box's Ubuntu logo, action that exposes the available sessions on the box, clicking on a session (such as GNOME), opens the clicked session.

Books, documents, etc, are sometimes created as PDF on the internets, file format containing text, images, geometric shapes, colors, etc, in order to express contained informations; nevertheless, along with the reading functionality, there are various situations where the user is "forced" to add both minor and in-depth customizations, editing process that is to contain both simplistic text editing, as well as page removal, image insertions, etc.

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal was released on April 28th, 2011, consequently, due to Ubuntu's 18 month security updates per non-LTS release (starting with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, the 3 year per LTS period has been increased to 5 years long support for security and critical updates), benefits constantly added security fixes until October 28th, 2012.

Usually, learning is, in the scientific world, performed/achieved by reading books, articles, forum topics, etc, where step-by-step in-depth informations are exposed, informations expressed via text and images.

Nevertheless, learning can be performed via video tutorials, too, where informations are presented in a more familiar user-friendly manner with a video flow that can help the user to immediately grasp various concepts, actions, how-tos, etc, in a relatively small amount of time.

Calibre is a versatile full-fledged e-book library management tool, combining, under a singular "roof", converting capabilities, metadata download, online news fetching, as well as a powerful yet easy-to-use e-book viewer, presenting the user an all-in-one e-book (MOBI, LIT, etc) centered application.