Blog posts tagged "snap store"

In the world of IoT, it is crucial to be fully in control of your devices. Over-the-air (OTA) updates are essential for a distributed set of devices. This...

The life of an application can roughly be divided into two: everything that happens before it goes live – building, packaging, publication – and then,...

Open the Snap Store, click on any application you like – you will now see a page full of useful tidbits – screenshots and videos, application description,...

Technology is a medium that enables us to achieve things in life, ideally in a pleasant way. In the software world, operating systems, programming languages...

Did you know that misuse of the /tmp directory is one of the most common security flaws? If you search mitre for the keyword “tmp”, you’ll find a plethora of...

Sometimes, you may wonder, what’s on the other side of the curtain? If you’re a developer contemplating snaps, you surely want to know the range of tools and...

The state of being productive comes in various guises. Sometimes, you want to do more. Sometimes, you want less. It’s been a while since we toured the Snap...

An application store with a large number of entries is a double-edged sword. It’s often a good sign of a vibrant, thriving community of software creators,...

This is the third and the last guide in this series. In the first installment, we learned about considerations for an update from Windows 7 to Ubuntu, key...

In the past decade, video has become the most ubiquitous method of communication on the Web. Video clips are used for pretty much anything, from short...

Software discovery and installation broadly comes in two flavors – via graphical user interface or on the command line. If you’re using a Linux distribution...

Overall, most Linux distributions offer sane, reasonable defaults that balance security and functionality quite well. However, most of the security mechanisms...