scopes

Grooveshark is a widely known, used and appreciated online music streaming service, allowing users to enjoy a massive database of music tracks via a clean intuitive web interface, with support for musical genres (such as Ambient, Classical, Dance, Electronic, etc), search-trough, sharing (Google+, Twitter, Facebook), etc.

Unity Grooveshark scope is (as its name says) a handy scope, pushing a solid amount of Grooveshark tracks into the handiness of the Unity Music lens.

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.

Music plays an important role in our lives, music that, after installing Ubuntu, can be played via Rhythmbox, Ubuntu's default music player.

Nevertheless, along with the recently refreshed Rhythmbox, there are available (via Ubuntu Software Center and/or PPAs) numerous music players, featuring a wide range of functionalities, online services integrations, eyecandy elements, 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.

The web is definitely playing a relevant role in Quantal, under the umbrella of Ubuntu Web Apps, exciting approach focused on making the web a first class citizen for the Ubuntu desktop.

Unity Utilities lens is a handy addition to the Dash, bringing useful information into Dash's home view along with the already provided used applications, downloads, etc, additions that are exposed on-demand by users searching a quick way of displaying "personal" informations (like for instance meteorologic data about their city), mathematic actions (3444+89888, etc), etc.

Unity Graphic Design lens combines distinct design-oriented sources allowing users to enhance and enrich their creative "spirit".

Unity Graphic Design lens has just been updated to a version compatible with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, adding, along with the already usable deviantart scope, three scopes:

Unity Contacts lens is a global place where various contacts are easily searchable and editable.

The lens is quite powerful, power generated by its scopes

Unity Utilities lens gathers weather, local time and calculator-based actions in the comfortable Dash's home view, making accessing useful informations as simple as pressing the Super/Meta/Windows key and typing accordingly (Paris, 133+56, etc).