Desktop archives
6 posts from May 2018
Offline Computing – 10 Apps for the Digital Nomad
By Alan Pope, 22 May 2018
In today’s always-connected, constantly-inturrupted world, it can often be rewarding to go offline. Disconnecting from the Internet doesn’t mean you have to...
Desktop plans for 18.10
By Will Cooke, 18 May 2018
Bionic is out the door and we’ve started the Cosmic cycle so I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you about our plans for this cycle, the sorts of...
Fresh Snaps from April 2018
By Alan Pope, 16 May 2018
In case you missed it, here are some of the snaps we featured during April 2018. Here you’ll find snaps to enhance your productivity, tools for creatives,...
Trust and security in the Snap Store
By Canonical, 15 May 2018
Last Friday (11 May 2018) we learned that a snap was mining cryptocurrency in the background while the application was running. The practical implication of...
An introduction to Zenkit – now available as a snap
By Guest, 8 May 2018
This is a guest blog written by Siobhan O’Rorke of Zenkit. In October 2016, Zenkit was released as an app designed to help you ‘organise anything’, enabling...
Introducing developer notifications for snap security updates
By Canonical, 2 May 2018
For some time, we’ve wanted a mechanism to alert snap publishers to security updates which affect their snaps. All the pieces have come together and we are...