Removing unwanted icons from the Unity Dash/ Creating new Application shortcuts

This seems to be a common issue. Unfortunately Ubuntu does not come with a MENU editor, so editing the Applications list is difficult for the average user.

Removing unwanted icons.

First I uninstalled the application, then I deleted all references from the following folder:

/usr/share/applications
/usr/local/share/applications
~/.local/share/applications

Rebooted....but never resolved my issue.

So installed this MENU editor:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:caldas-lopes/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ezame

and delete unwanted icons.

The MENU editor allows for removing and adding new Application shortcuts,