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).

One Hundred Scopes is am amazing, productive project that aims to produce and deliver scopes and lenses in order to enrich Unity's functionality, adding features suited for numerous tastes, needs and desires.

An interesting detail is the fact that, it seems, the project tries to sustain its name (one hundred) literally, probably continuing this productive road, thus properly touching a large range of user types.

Unity Photo lens brings photography management in the Dash, combining both online and offline/local sources.

Spotify scope adds extra resources to Ubuntu's default Unity Music lens, displaying Spotify songs when a particular item is searched.

Spotify scope depends on spotify-client-qt, tool that must be installed before the scope.

A definitely interesting innovation about the above mentioned scope is the marking of its items, meaning one can easily differentiate between songs provided by Banshee and Spotify's, the latter featuring a Spotify symbolic icons.

Almost every day, creative minds all over the internets clearly show the availability of Unity in interesting, productive and enjoyable ways.

Unity Video lens offers quickly access to Youtube's huge video clips collection in the Dash via its Youtube scope.

The clips are properly organized by Rating, Order, Time and Categories, making quite easy finding a specific item.

In the past months, lots of new lenses have emerged, inheriting a common quality, specialized in usual tasks.

On the other hand, Unity Graphic Design lens is a specialized tool, aimed towards designers, acting as a global place that can easily offer various resources needed for design, all in the comfort of the Dash.

The lens comes with four scopes:

Unity is definitely an interface suitable for numerous types of folks, behaviors and needs, statement based, among others, on the different range of useful lenses and scopes (weather, events, music, reddit, torrents).

Daily now, it seems more and more obvious that Unity is becoming a proper place where one can search & access numerous and interesting items, like files, folders, online music, clipboard entries, weather, appointed events, social interactions and much, much more.

A new lens has just been released that integrates the complex world of piratebay directly into the Dash, letting the user to easily search and open a particular torrent.

Unity Cities scope is a powerful online-based tool that quickly exposes various informations about cities (weather, time, etc) by simply entering the desired city name in Dash's search area.

Few days ago, the first version of Unity Cities scope was released and was providing weather in Celsius degrees, time and Google Maps location.

Unity Cities scope is a part of Unity Utilities lens, useful for providing various informations about cities, like weather, time and geographic location.

When a city is entered in Dash' home, the scope provides its location via Google Maps, followed by the online-based time and weather, so the infos are up-to-date and accurate.

Unity Music lens provides a large music base that can be easily searched (via the Dash) and accessed via Banshee in the default configuration, but can receive numerous additions by simply adding scopes (data sources), such as Clementine's, Rhythmbox's and Guayadeque's.