My shiny desktop infatuation continues, and the level of customisation I glimpsed yesterday has spurred me into finding how deep this actually goes. I start with the inbuilt search, which is rubbish, and swiftly find an alternative.

Let me introduce "Gnome Do". As with Mozilla's Ubiquity project, Gnome Do lets you type simple commands into an interface and perform a range of tasks on the fly, from searching and opening applications, to posting messages to Twitter, sending emails, searching definitions and checking maps.

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