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"Productivity"

Holly Hall
19 November 2021

Top 10 apps to boost your productivity

Apps Ubuntu tech blog

Winter is rolling in (for those in the Northern Hemisphere at least). Long summer evenings are on hold for now. In these colder months, it can be difficult to get back into work and feel efficient. But whether you are feeling tired, unorganised, or demotivated, there may be an application here to help you refocus ...

Igor Ljubuncic
12 June 2020

Productivity is but a snap away – useful applications for your everyday needs

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

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 Store, and we thought you would be interested in a fresh batch of cool, fun and useful applications that can help you perfect your daily digital activities. ...

Igor Ljubuncic
27 April 2020

Work smart, not hard – fun applications to help you do less in your day

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Modern-day life is fast, hectic, demanding. Time is precious, and we often need to be able to squeeze every atom of efficiency from our environment and our tools. But sometimes, the best thing you can do for your productivity is – to do nothing. Sometimes, less is more. In this article, we want to show ...

Igor Ljubuncic
28 November 2019

Productivity corner: free, versatile office suites in the Snap Store

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

For the past few decades, the digital office formula has not changed much. It still revolves around three main components – text documents, data spreadsheets and visual slide decks, designed to convey a powerful business message. While simple in essence, this model is quite complex in practice, and choosing the best tools for the job ...

Martin Wimpress
17 July 2018

Get productive on the Linux desktop with 7 essential apps

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

The Linux desktop is not just for people who like to mess with computers. With a wide range of enterprise class productivity and collaboration tools Linux users can enjoy computing parity with their peers and colleagues running other popular desktop computing platforms. Here are 7 apps that will boost your productivity and you’ll also fin ...

Canonical
5 June 2013

Credit card as organisational changer

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Why scale out matters Beware the credit card It’s just a little piece of plastic. Yet any part of your organisation can use it to buy infrastructure on demand, in a public cloud, right now. And that’s dangerous. Say marketing want to run a campaign, and they have a rough idea of the IT resources ...

Canonical
7 January 2013

What are the management factors in planning a migration from Windows to Ubuntu?

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Best of our webinars – (From the Ubuntu: The Desktop of the Future webinar @ 29.25 min) ANSWER Large scale migrations from Windows to Linux desktop can be done well. But some very ambitious projects to move to an open source desktop have run aground because the complexity has been too great for the organisation to manage ...

Canonical
21 September 2012

Ubuntu Desktop for the enterprise

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu has become a serious contender for businesses looking for desktop alternatives. As an open-source system, it offers huge licensing savings over proprietary technologies. And it’s far leaner and easier to customise, which helps you minimise management costs and get more from your older hardware. This paper looks at three key areas w ...