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How to Add App Drawers to Unity Launcher in Ubuntu

One of the issues with Unity Launcher is that it can get overcrowded with apps. Here’s how you can add an app drawer to Unity Launcher and keep it organized.

By Himanshu Arora – Jan 7, 2017

How to Add Recent Files Quicklists in Ubuntu Unity Launcher

The RecentQuicklist script allows you to add recent files quicklists to Unity Launcher in Ubuntu. Here is how you can use it to improve your productivity.

By Himanshu Arora – Aug 23, 2016

How to Move Unity Launcher from Left to Bottom in Ubuntu 16.04

How to Move Unity Launcher to Bottom of Desktop in Ubuntu 16.04

Did you know that in Ubuntu 16.04 you can actually move the Unity launcher from its default ‘left’ position to the bottom? Here’s how to do it.

By Himanshu Arora – Apr 29, 2016

How to Customize Ubuntu’s Unity Launcher for Different Workspaces Using Unity LauncherSwitcher

Unity Launcherswitcher is a background script which enables you to set up a different launcher on each of your workspaces on Unity. Here’s how to set it up.

By Himanshu Arora – Jul 28, 2015

ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

Jun 9, 2026

In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it was in development — it demanded twice the memory of a typical home PC, sold roughly 30,000 copies, and was dead within a year, leaving behind the font Comic Sans and the animated assistant that became Clippy.

Jun 9, 2026

Stunning underwater shot of tiger sharks swimming among fish in the ocean depths.

The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies.

Jun 9, 2026

French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground

Jun 9, 2026

A person using a smartphone with a green screen surrounded by fresh fruits and vegetables in the kitchen.

When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter nobody had quite prepared for — a tally of pickups — and within a day Tim Cook was telling CNN the number of times he picked up his own phone was simply too many

Jun 9, 2026

Starry night with radio towers and the Milky Way galaxy visible overhead.

When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked up its signal in January 2018 while hunting for a classified spy satellite, and the spacecraft turned out to be still spinning, still powered, and still trying to phone home after 13 years of silence.

Jun 9, 2026

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