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Posts about elementary OS and related topics
Developer Tips: Branding Your App Wed, Jan 31, 2018
How to give your app a unique but native look
With 75+ native GTK3 apps, AppCenter continues to fill out with quality experiences from several dozen developers. Many have begun to build their own…
AppCenter Spotlight: Image Optimizer Sun, Jan 28, 2018
Lossless compression couldn’t be simpler.
Sometimes you want a simple utility that just does one thing really well. For lossless image compression, Image Optimizer by Gijs Goudzwaard delivers in…
Secure By Default: Disk Encryption Wed, Jan 24, 2018
It’s time to better protect user data by default.
elementary and System76 got together last month to discuss and continue hacking on a new installer for future releases of Linux-based operating systems like…
Introducing New AppCenter Categories Wed, Jan 17, 2018
Better for both users and developers
We’ve been hard at work to refresh the categories on the AppCenter home page. This refresh includes some new categories plus some changes to…
Introducing Dippi Sun, Jan 14, 2018
A new app to calculate (Hi)DPI
Apparently writing a multi-part series on Medium isn’t enough for me; I just can’t stop thinking and talking about HiDPI! This time I’ve actually…
Scratch is now elementary Code Tue, Jan 2, 2018
More than a name change
In 2011, elementary debuted our own “text editor.” We’ve shipped it in elementary OS ever since as Scratch, the default app for handling any…
AppCenter Spotlight: 2017 Wrap Up Sat, Dec 23, 2017
Take a look back at 2017 and each Spotlight app from the year
It was just earlier this year that AppCenter debuted pay-what-you-want apps to elementary OS, and it’s been a great year for apps. After looking…
AppCenter Spotlight: Sequeler Wed, Nov 29, 2017
Easily connect to your local or remote database with this friendly SQL client
On elementary OS? Hit the button to get Sequeler. In the second-ever AppCenter Spotlight, I detailed the apps that users were asking for. One…
The State of AppCenter Mon, Oct 23, 2017
Six months, major updates, and over 50 quality apps!
This past May we released the major update to elementary OS that debuted the new pay-what-you-want app experience in AppCenter. In those past six…
AppCenter Spotlight: Torrential Sat, Sep 30, 2017
Download in style with this torrent client from David Hewitt
On elementary OS? Hit the button to get Torrential. Torrents are an incredibly powerful file transfer tool, commonly used for large downloads (like most…
Developer Tips: Making a Killer AppCenter Listing Fri, Aug 25, 2017
Five ways to make your app stand out
As the number of apps in AppCenter grows, it’s becoming increasingly important for your app’s listing to stand out. It’s no longer sufficient to…
Cleaning Up App Codenames Fri, Jul 21, 2017
GitHub and RDNN make for a more sane scheme
We’re making some changes to our app codenames (and how we refer to apps) to clean up a few mismatched schemes. This gets a…
AppCenter Spotlight: Spice-Up Mon, Jun 19, 2017
Create simple and beautiful presentations
We took a brief look at Spice-Up — the presentation app from Felipe Escoto — back in the very first AppCenter Spotlight. But with…
AppCenter Spotlight: Quilter Mon, Jun 19, 2017
Focus on your writing
On elementary OS? Hit the button to get Quilter. The past several months have seen more and more apps being developed for elementary OS…
AppCenter Spotlight: Harvey Mon, Jun 19, 2017
The hero that Gotham needs right now
On elementary OS? Hit the button to get Harvey. Have you ever been designing or developing something with color and wondered if it passes…
AppCenter Spotlight: Agenda Sat, May 27, 2017
Get things done
In April and May I detailed several apps that were submitted during the private beta. Those apps have continued to improve and get updates…
Loki Updates for April Sat, Apr 29, 2017
We made several releases in April; check out what’s new!
In case you missed it, we shipped a major fix for an issue that caused updates not to appear. If you haven’t already, you’ll…
AppCenter Spotlight: More Beta Testers Fri, Apr 28, 2017
Four new category-defining apps from the AppCenter Beta, plus the apps users are asking for.
A couple of weeks ago I shared my AppCenter Spotlight: Beta Testers piece and got a great response. People continue to be excited to…
AppCenter Spotlight: Beta Testers Sun, Apr 23, 2017
Five of the first apps helping test AppCenter
Over the past month we’ve been beta testing the new AppCenter with a number of developers, from elementary OS contributors to backers of our…
Wrapping Up the AppCenter Campaign Fri, Mar 10, 2017
128% funded. 400+ backers. Off to Denver!
Our AppCenter campaign on Indiegogo has officially ended at 28% above our goal! During the 30-day campaign we saw more than four hundred backers…
AppCenter: Funded Sat, Feb 18, 2017
We’re going to Denver!
A few moments ago, we hit 100% funded for our AppCenter campaign on Indiegogo. Thank you, backers! More than 300 people backed us over…
AppCenter Campaign: One Week In Fri, Feb 17, 2017
Over 270 backers and 80% funded
It’s been a busy week for elementary! Just last week we launched our Indiegogo campaign for AppCenter: The Pay-What-You-Want App Store. Since then, we’ve…
HiDPI is More Important than 4K Mon, Feb 13, 2017
What’s the difference, and why does it matter?
In my first post on HiDPI, I touched on the problem with marketing buzzwords surrounding the concept: HiDPI is a great idea, but it’s…
AppCenter FAQ Mon, Feb 13, 2017
Questions raised during our crowdfunding campaign
With our first few days of the campaign under our belt, we’d like to follow up on our previous updates and share a sort…
Introducing the elementary Community Logo Tue, Jan 17, 2017
After a fan reached out to us about usage of the official logos in community projects, we worked with them and our design team to better define community usage of the elementary brand. The result: an awesome new elementary Community logo!
We first debuted our Brand page on our website nearly a year ago in an effort to help provide guidelines for the usage of…