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Unity Torrents, Unity Help lens, Unity Askubuntu lens, Unity Wikipedia lens, etc, are lenses available (via PPAs) for Ubuntu, lenses that gather and expose a wide range of item types and functionalities.

Nevertheless, where there are millions of users, there are numerous tastes, preferences, desires, etc, needed to be covered in order to satisfy users' use cases/demands.

Either if we are living in the East or in the West, North or South, sometimes, weather plays an important role in our daily activities, in situations like going to a concert, attending a job-related meeting, performing various college exams, etc, activities that can be influenced by the current weather conditions.

While most Ubuntu users are not weather specialists, the above situations may require a quick look at weather conditions, when, in a matter of seconds, one can grasp a sufficient idea of the "outside" weather status.

Epiphany is a lightweight yet effective web-browser, allowing users to enjoy a modern web experience, while retaining simplicity and ease-of-use.

Months ago, GNOME developers started a serious work on refreshing Epiphany Web Browser (labeled now as both Web and Epiphany), in the sense of rewriting numerous "internal" components, as well as implementing numerous UI changes, changes essentially aimed at visually aligning Epiphany to GNOME design's current directions.

LibreOffice is a powerful full-fledged office suite shipped in Ubuntu by default.

Along with a massive amount of features, in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, LibreOffice exposes its menus as an "old" application, in the sense of not taking advantage of the global menu/appmenu, yet, by simply installing lo-menubar (available via Ubuntu Software Center), the appmenu is enabled (as a result, LibreOffice gains a desktop-integrated look & feel).

Millions and millions of users are enjoying Ubuntu all over the world, thus making the powerful open-source operating system a popular and appreciated OS at a planetary scale.

Along with regular users, it seems (according to constantly discovered evidences) that famous persons, like Stephen Fry, are not only aware but actually using Ubuntu.

Opening webpages, posting to Google+, replying on Twitter, reading Wikipedia articles, watching Youtube clips, etc, are action conducted via Firefox, Ubuntu's default web-browser, that constantly sees new releases, due to its recently adopted rapid release cycle.

Being part of a rapid release cycle, Firefox is, as seen in the latest months, expressed via both UI changes-related and new features-based releases, versions constantly bringing changes and pushing Firefox forward on multiple levels (UI, solid development tool, etc).

Weeks ago, Ubuntu introduced Amazon-based search results in Ubuntu 12.10's Dash, approach aimed at (along with its shopping utility) bringing extra financial contributions towards Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, company that is pushing millions and millions of dollars into Ubuntu, operating system enjoyed for free by millions and millions of users across the world.

Ubuntu ships by default Yelp, a handy easily-graspable help utility, presenting the user Ubuntu's applications, tips, explanations, recommendations, etc, via a clickable web-browser like experience.

A new version of Yelp/Help has landed in Ubuntu 12.10, refreshing its informations with up-to-date details, details implemented for an accurate Quantal-specific overall how-why-where-what approach.

Sigil is a powerful open-source EPUB editor, presenting the user a solid amount of features, such as multiple edited document views (book, code, split), WYSIWYG editing support, option to generate table of contents, enhanced metadata editor, spell checking with numerous dictionaries, SVG support, document validator, etc, basically, an impressive bundle of features aimed at both newcomers (due to Sigil's clear intuitive interface) and versed users.

There are only days left until Ubuntu 12.10's release, consequently, along with various events and announcements, countdown timers have been created for Quantal Quetzal, banners daily updated with accurate days-left-until-the-release bits.

Adding a banner to a webpage is as simple as copying & pasting a code, code selected in accordance with user's preferences.