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Hungry? New Cooking Lens Puts 4000 Recipes in the Dash
Developers continue to cook up intuitive uses for Unity’s Lenses feature – the latest of which of a Cooking Lens.
The lens uses social food network ‘recipefy.com’ as its search back-end, meaning access to a searchable catalog of 4000 recipes is placed within easy reach. You can search by keyword, ingredient, or dish type, and see information such as cooking time required and difficulty level.
Ubuntu 12.04 Gets A New Video Lens For Finding Online Movies, TV Shows
Searching for something to watch will be much easier in Ubuntu 12.04 thanks to addition of a new default Video Lens.
As well as being able to sift through the metadata of local files stored in your Videos folder based on a search term, the lens is backed by a set of smart ‘remote video’ scopes that query online services such as YouTube Movies, Amazon, indie service VODO and, for British users, the hallowed BBC iPlayer.
10 of the Best Unity Lenses & Scopes for Ubuntu
It’s somewhat apt that Ubuntu’s ‘Lenses’ feature has brought Unity into clearer focus for many of its initial critics.
The search-orientated display windows – called ‘Lenses’ – make finding specific files, apps or information easy to do thanks to their tuned ‘search backends’ – called Scopes’.
Inside we lost 10 of the best Lenses and Scopes available for Ubuntu 11.10.
Unity’s Dash to Ditch Giant Shortcuts
Not a fan of the 8 giant shortcuts in the Unity Dash? Ubuntu 12.04 might just present you with something different…
Ubuntu developers are testing a new layout for the Unity ‘Home Lens’.
Ubuntu 12.04 Lets You Disable ‘Apps for Download’ in Unity
Ubuntu 12.04 has added the option to disable the “Apps available for Download” pane shown in Unity’s Applications Lens
YouTube Lens Adds MiniTube Playback Option
Remember that YouTube Lens for Unity we showed you last week? It’s just gotten a little bit better. The Lens lets you browser through YouTube’s extensive video library without having to open your browser. When you want to watch a video you just click on the thumbnail and out pops VLC ready to play the [...]
New Flickr/Shotwell Photo Lens Seeks Testers
A new photo-orientated Lens for Unity that lets you browse through your Shotwell library and online Flickr collection is seeking testers.
The ‘Photo Lens’ adds an easy-to-access photo-centric pane to your Unity Dash that’s powered by two ‘Scopes’ (search backends) – one for Ubuntu’s default photo app Shotwell, and the other for popular online photo service Flickr.
Unity YouTube Lens Updates with Browser Free Video Playback
The latest update to the YouTube Unity Lens adds Flash-free playback of videos in VLC (if it’s installed) when clicking on a video result.
Dapper.
So Long Productivity – YouTube Lens Puts Browser-free Searching of Videos in the Unity Dash
The fantastic folks over at Spanish blog ‘Ataraeo‘ have put together a nifty a lens for browsing YouTube’s library of videos straight from the Dash. The package, a YouTube ‘Scope’ (the search engine bit) and a Video ‘Lens’ (the interface bit), even comes complete with filters for narrowing down searches by popular YouTube category types. Results can then [...]
[NSFW] Adult Lens and Porn Scope Ready for Testing
One of the greatest things about open source is that it allows anyone with an itch to scratch the chance to the scratch it – and Ubuntu provides a range of new and exciting technologies for doing this.
With this in mind it wasn’t going to take long before someone created a Lens and Scope set designed to search out Adult material from the Unity Dash…
Help Test a Pirate Bay Scope & Torrent Lens in Ubuntu
Ever wanted to search The Pirate Bay and grab a .torrent without opening a browser window? Now you can using a combo of ‘Unity Scope Piratebay’ and the ‘Torrent Lens’.
Read on for more information and those all important install instructions.
Search Grooveshark Tracks From the Unity Music Lens
A new ‘scope’ for Ubuntu’s Unity Music Lens presents results from online music service ‘Grooveshark’ amongst your local collection.
When searching for an artist, track title or album title via the Unity Music Lens or Dash, the scope displays relevant tracks and albums playable through the Grooveshark music streaming service.
Better Positioning Lenses within the Dash (mockups)
Another day and another set of Unity mock-ups.
This time from the hand of Ubuntu user staticd, who wonders whether the position of the ‘Lens bar’ – which appears at the bottom of the Dash in Ubuntu 11.10 – could be better placed – could be better placed.
Unity Tomboy Lens Makes Searching, Opening Your Notes Easy in Ubuntu
Tomboy is Ubuntu’s default note-taking application – and a pretty good one at that.
Developer Rémi Rérolle thinks so too, and wrote in to share word of his ‘Tomboy’ Lens for Ubuntu.
Unity Bliss: An Alternative Application Lens for Ubuntu
Unity’s Application Lens is pretty much perfect: you can search apps by text, or by category.
Simple stuff, right?
Well it’s not simple enough for those who prefer the more traditional approach to application-menu structure.
To that end the maintainer of the Unity Application Lens, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen, has put together an GNOME Menu inspired alternative. A lens he’s called ‘Unity Bliss’.