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January 2nd 2013, Canonical unveiled Ubuntu for phones, event that started a noticeable movement in the Ubuntu community, latter generating inspired-by-Ubuntu-phones-OS creations, such as static wallpapers and dynamically-changed-by-a-script wallpapers.

Weeks ago, official statements triggered a solid amount of positive reactions in the Ubuntu community, news transmitting that a massive number of scopes is to probably land in Raring Ringtail as default, number approximated to 100.

Unity Minecraft lens, Unity Utilities lens, Unity Wikipedia lens, etc, are among the lenses developed and maintained by David Callé, developer appreciated across the community for numerous interesting creations.

System Settings houses numerous configuration options, allowing the user to hassle-free tweak a basic-yet-relevant set of options, such as Brightness & Lock, Displays, Keyboard, Sound, etc.

Under System Settings (installed in Ubuntu by default), Appearance groups Look (support to change wallpapers, Unity launcher's icon size) and Behavior, latter sub-panel containing the 1-click away ability to set the Unity launcher's auto-hide behavior.

Along with numerous qualities and functionalities, Ubuntu for phones' home screen has been immediately noticed and visually appreciated by users, basically, the phone OS' home screen contains, in its center, an interesting rounded shape, generating a non-disturbing elegant look & feel.

Months ago, the Mozilla developers announced the upcoming arrival of Australis, a definitely interesting theme that introduces numerous new visual elements to Firefox, such as rounded corners, polished tabs, pleasant-to-eye color tones, etc, an overall good-looking default theme for Firefox.

We are dealing with and using, aren't we, knowledge in order to complete projects, research concepts, build ideas, create work-related items, etc, knowledge expressed across the internets in multiple forms, flavors and understanding levels.

It seems that sometimes we need specialized informations, knowledge created by scientists and professionals, in order to grasp, edit, point out accurate parts of life, such as highly-detailed theories, massively-measured reports, in-depth researched studies, etc.

Started on January 8th and ended on January 11th 2013, CES 2013 gathered a wide and diverse amount of companies, developers, teams of designers, corporations, etc, for publicly exposing the latest technologies through talks, demos, explanations, presentations, etc.

It is now, isn't it, a common fact that Ubuntu constantly produces new and new technologies, innovation expressed on both desktop and server, as well as aimed at mobile form-factors.

As related to the server side, the developers released interesting software, such as JuJu and MaaS, software designed with rapid, reliable and efficient cloud management in mind.

Along with swiping gestures, fully enabled screen-edges, exciting native apps, etc, the recently announced Ubuntu for phones comes with a definitely interesting status-aware home screen.

Essentially, a rounded shape constantly exposes system notifications, such as missed calls, unread emails, etc, allowing the user to enjoy a both pleasant-to-the-eye and filled-with-functionalities home screen.

Weeks ago, VLC 2.0.5 was released, presenting itself as a minor bug fixes-related release.