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Change the GTK+ theme, select a different font, disable the shortcut hint overlay, enhance Unity launcher quicklist, etc, are actions grouped inside Ubuntu Tweak, a "global" utility that incorporates a massive amount of configuration options, options helped by a handy Overview (displying the computer's hardware and software details) and a useful Janitor (from where the user can easily clear the system's cache).

Variety is a handy wallpaper changer, presenting itself as a lightweight yet effective wallpaper selector, selection process implemented via a double-sided approach: local (the user is able to select, as wallpaper sources, folders containing images) and online (users can add numerous online sources from where Variety downloads, selects and sets wallpapers).

Evernote is a widely known and used note-taking online-based service, allowing users to both create and share notes across multiple devices ("united" by a user account).

Everpad is a powerful utility, designed with combining the Evernote's power with Ubuntu's versatile desktop in mind, mix expressed as a Unity-integrated Evernote-based tool featuring appindicator, enhanced Unity launcher quicklist, Unity launcher progressbar and a dedicated Unity lens.

GitHub is a massive software repository, featuring more than 3,900,000 repositories managed by more than 2,200,000 people, projects ranging from simplistic to complex software, such as reddit, jQuery, Ruby on Rails, etc.

Unity GitHub lens is a fast effective lens, that harnesses and exposes the massive database of GitHub into the easiness of the Dash, allowing the user to hassle-free search, locate and access preferred topics in a matter of seconds.

Banshee is a fancy powerful music player, presenting the user a clean clear interface and numerous features and plugins, such as metadata sync, ratings, Wikipedia-based artist info, DVD and audio CD support, radio, podcasts, support for numerous external devices, online sources (eMusic import, Internet Archive, last.fm, Miro, etc).

"Navigating" through life, faces one with both good and unpleasant aspects of life, latter aspect manifested via multiple expressions, in which poverty plays (at the moment) an important role.

During the Quantal development cycle (in-progress at the moment), Unity has gone through numerous changes, enhancements, refinements, etc, bundle of actions targeted at delivering a more solid yet feature-full default desktop interface.

Unity has been updated to another exciting release, 6.8, presenting itself as both a completion (of previously landed features) and polishing, optimizing, etc, various components.

PyPi is a powerful Python package index, allowing users to easily find and install numerous Python modules, basically, presenting itself as a massive software repository containing (at the moment) 24458 packages.

Usually, in order to locate Python modules, users/developers utilize the search available on the PyPi website and/or using pip search.

Ubuntu ships by default Ubuntu One, a powerful online service that allows the user to synchronize data (images, video clips, archives, etc) across multiple computers, as well as publishing (and thus sharing) items in a matter of seconds, action followed (when performed) by obtaining a public published file link; the mentioned link can be copied & pasted on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.

Weeks ago, Ubuntu One Control Panel (the desktop interface containing both configuration options and account details) received a handy highly-usable Share links addition.

Lightread is a fancy RSS reader, allowing the user (through Google Reader) to easily add, manage and "digest" feeds, feeds exposed via a clean clear interface with monochrome icons, pleasant-to-the-eye areas and online service integration (Pocket, Instapaper).

Lightread 1.2 has been released, enriching its offered features, as well as improving the already available functionalities.