Author Archives: David Planella

Top 10 Ubuntu app downloads for March 2012

By David Planella | Published: 2012-04-17

We’re ramping up to the release of Ubuntu 12.04 and new and cool apps keep being added to the Software Centre. Check out last month’s most downloaded free and paid apps. Top 10 paid apps 1. Steel Storm: Burning Retribution Steel Storm: Burning Retribution marks the return of top-down shooters with new twists. The game […]

Top 10 Ubuntu app downloads for January 2012

By David Planella | Published: 2012-02-09

Top 10 commercial apps 1. TRAUMA TRAUMA is a game that tells a story of a young woman who survives a car accident. Recovering at the hospital, she has dreams that shed light on different aspects of her identity – such as the way she deals with the loss of her parents. TRAUMA lets you […]

Featured Ubuntu Software Centre apps for January 2012

By David Planella | Published: 2012-01-27

We’re back with a new edition of the featured apps in the Ubuntu Software Centre. The theme this month is going to be gaming, and for this we’ve carefully hand-picked and brought you 3 of the coolest, slickest games now available in Ubuntu. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do! Core Breach […]

Ubuntu Precise Open for Translation

By David Planella | Published: 2011-12-13

I am pleased to announce that our current development release, Ubuntu Precise, is now open for translation: Some additional information that will be useful for translators: Translation schedule. Remember that according to the release schedule translatable messages might be subject to change until the User Interface Freeze on the week of the 23rd of February. Language packs. During the development […]

Automatic packaging progress

By David Planella | Published: 2011-11-10

We’re doing some work to automatically package the things that application developers submit to the Ubuntu App Developer site, and we thought you might be interested in following along. In a nutshell, we’re going to put a service behind MyApps that harnesses pkgme to automatically generate packaging for binary applications. We hope to extend it […]