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Ubuntu 12.10 ships (by default) Unity Shopping lens, adding a shopping utility to the Dash home, meaning, typing a word in the search area exposes (along with locally-based files and folders) online search results (such as Amazon's).

Cycles ago, Unity landed in Ubuntu, presenting users an innovative, fresh and exciting method of launching, filtering, accessing, etc, applications, files, folders, etc.

Along with a solid usability, Unity has been constantly developed and enriched with new and new functionalities, presently, allowing developers to express creative ideas via the Dash, creativity rooted into (and limited by) developers' skills and ability to create, develop, incarnate ideas, methods, manners, etc.

We are living, aren't we, in a world dominated by informations, knowledge that must be acquired for various benefits, such as proper accessing of resources, rapid advancements on numerous fronts, resolving present issues, discovering new methods, etc.

Access weather informations in a matter of seconds, perform mathematical calculations directly in the Dash, etc, are actions available via Unity Utilities lens, lens that houses and exposes informations as generated by various sources, while remaining hidden (without a dedicated icon on Dash's lens bar).

Words play, aren't they, an important role in our global society, words used in a massive amount all over the world, in places like the web, schools, work areas, etc.

Being a native English speaker or not, one deals with numerous words with numerous meanings, occasions when a versed dictionary is needed, both explaining the basic sense and also various "secondary" meanings, latter facet that, at least across the internets, sometimes plays a more relevant role than the word's basic connotation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Usually, after installing Ubuntu and/or applications, users are seeking help on the internets, help usually needed for in-depth Ubuntu tweaking, adding third-party lenses, installing non-default apps (from PPAs), adjusting the system performance to one's computer type and available hardware, etc, help required by both newcomers and regular users.