Unity News Lens Gets Local News With Geolocation, More

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEief0_eB0VI0G7KhQo8Iea2BC4C5JgFInXvlLTMHWCRRHAwUvCxOdt-1OtvDrk2QmzA3Deyp14TN2iDHRxaOu2URb60AXYZYfj0lTK80xCnh7QHNfKlNKBhsDUeUSxd8luRcUqb6vy3KB37/s1600/news-lens_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="unity news lens" border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEief0_eB0VI0G7KhQo8Iea2BC4C5JgFInXvlLTMHWCRRHAwUvCxOdt-1OtvDrk2QmzA3Deyp14TN2iDHRxaOu2URb60AXYZYfj0lTK80xCnh7QHNfKlNKBhsDUeUSxd8luRcUqb6vy3KB37/s320/news-lens_2.png" title="unity news lens" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Unity News Lens lets you search Google news from Dash and it currently supports 61 countries. The lens was updated recently, and it now includes local news, topics and top stories with up to 100 results. </b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">The updated News Lens uses geolocation for local news to define the language used based on your country, but you can also use your session language by selecting <i>Language > Current</i> from the Unity News Lens filter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The lens will fallback to English and world news for countries not supported by Google News, but the news will be as local as possible, according to the Unity News Lens changelog.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY5CnZzbKcptgG2NDO2X-wPVBdyMo2KRVZX-aGorB-JsVifDWrwNQpMsl98taOUsyCoIiaArMm6QbCum5acPa6bz17LEZNmhIdlwIZJT8Ce9U747ytjqmrK504IZjLyimt5MxH69_tcvUg/s1600/unity-news-lens.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="unity news lens" border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY5CnZzbKcptgG2NDO2X-wPVBdyMo2KRVZX-aGorB-JsVifDWrwNQpMsl98taOUsyCoIiaArMm6QbCum5acPa6bz17LEZNmhIdlwIZJT8Ce9U747ytjqmrK504IZjLyimt5MxH69_tcvUg/s320/unity-news-lens.png" title="unity news lens" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To install Unity News Lens in Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10, use the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install unity-lens-news</code></pre>Once installed, log out and log back in.<br /><br />Report any bugs you may find @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/onehundredscopes">Launchpad</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>first image / info via David Callé @ <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/117867558830601601230/posts/7Cu6hoiHZ1S">Google+</a>.</i></div>

Unity News Lens Gets Local News With Geolocation, More

Unity News Lens lets you search Google news from Dash and it currently supports 61 countries. The lens was updated recently, and it now incl...

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