At rollApp we are continually expanding the collection of apps available to you in our cloud. Check out some of the other apps we’ve added recently. You can find these and many other apps at www.rollapp.com/apps.
PDF Mod is a simple tool for modifying PDF documents. It can rotate, extract, remove and reorder pages via drag and drop. You can also add/edit the title, subject, author and keywords of a PDF document using PDF Mod. Multiple documents may be combined via drag and drop.
Xmind is a powerful creative tool that makes it simple to gather, analyze and share your ideas with others. It’s one of the most popular mind mapping tools. XMind has simple and intuitive interface that makes you focused only on what really matters — your ideas. XMind supports exporting to a lot of formats such as Microsoft Word, PDF, HTML, PNG, JPEG, and other.
SOFA — Statistics Open For All — is a user-friendly statistics, analysis, & reporting program. SOFA lets you display results in an attractive format ready to share, make charts, produce attractive report tables, perform a range of basic statistical tests.
GnuCash is a personal and small-business financial-accounting software. GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. It has double-entry bookkeeping, scheduled transactions, mortgage and loan repayment assistant, small business accounting features, multi-currency transaction handling, and other features.
SOFA is an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation. It is mostly intended for the research community to help develop newer algorithms, but can also be used as an efficient prototyping tool.
Welcome to our weekly digest! Happy Thanksgiving! Lets recap what was in the news recently.
Jolla Tablet — world’s first crowd-sourced tablet. Jolla’s Indiegogo campaign exceed everyone expectations. They tripled their original $380,000 goal in a few days. Jolla team has announced that it’s adding new campaign goals including the option of built-in 3.5G data capability. The device will come with its own operating system, Sailfish OS. Sailfish OS has user interface controlled solely by touch and gestures. Besides running its own native apps, Sailfish OS allows to install and run Android apps.
Google has released improved the security features in Google for Work. In The Devices and Activity dashboard you can find information about the devices accessing your Google account, including devices that were active in the last 28 days as well as those which are currently signed in. This is a welcome addition as it allows users to proactively manage security of their account.
European Parliament votes to ask for Google to be broken up. The measure passed by a symbolic vote and does not carry any legal weight, but it highlights that the search giant with 90 percent marketshare for search in Europe is under close attention from regulating authorities. But experts believe that Google won’t be broken up and lay some reasons why.
Traditionally, office applications are among the most popular on rollApp. We now have users, who use LibreOffice or OpenOffice to create and edit their documents, from nearly every country in the world. There has been a number of requests to make localized versions of the office apps available on rollApp. We are happy to report that with a recent update, in addition to English, Spanish and Russian, you can now can have office apps talking to you in Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Polish and Turkish!
Here is how you change the user interface language in LibreOffice and OpenOffice. Go to menu Tools > Options > Language (in Language settings section) and select the desired language for the UI and documents from the respective dropdowns:
You would then need to restart the application for the new language settings to take effect. By the way, the correct way to close an application is through File > Exit menu. This will ensure that if you have any unsaved changes, you’ll have a chance to save your files.
Another popular request was asking for additional fonts for our cloud applications. Good news! We’ve added 27 new serif, sans serif and handwritten fonts. These fonts are now available in LibreOffice, OpenOffice and Inkscape and will eventually become available in all the other apps in our collection.
If you are on the market for a new inexpensive laptop, you definitely should take a look at Chromebooks. There is a great review on the Verge, which will help you navigate the world modern-generation devices powered by Chrome OS.
Long time there was no news from Nokia. But this week they surprised us. Nokia came out with it’s first tablet based on Android – Nokia N1. This 7.9-inch device comes Android 5.0 Lollipop that runs Nokia’s new Z Launcher (you can also try it on other Android devices too). Check out the reviews that compare Nokia’s tablet with other popular browsers: Nexus 9 by HTC or iPad mini from Apple. Some say Nokia N1 is nice alternative to current Android tablets, others say it closely resembles Apple’s iPad Mini (some even say too closely). It still remains to be seen how well the new device will perform on the market.
Microsoft announced Sway – a new application that allows to easily create and share a polished, interactive, web-based canvas of your ideas with family, friends, teachers, and coworkers. “Sway shows you the stuff you have stored in the cloud: just tap or click, drag, and drop it right onto your canvas”, – they say in the announcement. The app will allow to add content from OneDrive, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and your device. Currently it is available by invitation only.
Google released Chrome 39 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This release is an important milestone for Mac users as it finally brings 64-bit build of the browser to this platform. As usually, new release packs lots of security fixes, a number of new apps/extension APIs, and lots of under the hood changes for stability and performance. Also, Chrome 39 brings a slew of new features for developers.
Mozilla makes Yahoo the default Firefox search engine in the U.S. In Russia it uses Yandex, and Baidu in China.Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Amazon, Twitter and Wikipedia will continue to be built-in as alternative search engine options. Google has been the Firefox global search default since 2004, and Google will continue to power the Safe Browsing and Geolocation features in Firefox.
At rollApp we constantly working to extend the collection of apps available to you in our cloud. And we also try to bring them closer to you to make it easier to be more productive with the applications you need where you need them. Today we want to let you know about some of the new apps available in the Chrome Web Store. The first app to start with is FBReader. This is an e-book reader which supports popular e-book formats like ePub, fb2, mobi, html, and plain text. rollApp allows you to run FBReader without installation on many devices. With that you can build you digital library in the cloud on Dropbox or Google Drive, or simply open individual e-book and enjoy your reading.
Scribus is a publishing application with a broad set of page layout features. It’s designed for flexible layout and typesetting and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. Whether you’re creating Brochures, Business Cards, Cards, Newsletters, PDF Presentations, Packaging, or Posters, you’ll have several templates to choose from.
Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It supports PDF, postscript, djvu, tiff and dvi. Evince has simple interface, customizable toolbar, thumbnail view. It will help you to view properties of document (such as author, creation date, number of pages, fonts), search and rotate the document, use multiple modes for viewing the PDF files.
LibreCAD is a powerful application for 2D computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting. LibreCAD can import files created with AutoCAD (.dxf) and in LucasFilm Format (.lff) and export drawings to wide range of formats. This app has customizable interface, which allows to use layers to create your blueprints and to measure lengths and dimensions right inside the drawing.
Pinta is a drawing and editing application modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images. Pinta is a bitmap image editor with many features typical of image editing software including drawing tools, image filters and colour adjustment tools. It also has unlimited layers to help separate and group elements of your image for easy editing.
VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts. It helps to use both sides of your brain: the logical side and also your creative side (e.g. by using pictures, colors and keywords in a map, so called anchors).
KMines is a puzzle game where you locate mines floating in an ocean using only your brain and a little bit of luck. The idea is to uncover all the squares without blowing up any mines. The player cannot know the exact location of the mines before the game is over. Numbers will indicate nearby mines. When a mine is blown up, the game is over.
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PDF Mod is a simple tool for modifying PDF documents. It can rotate, extract, remove and reorder pages via drag and drop. You can also add/edit the title, subject, author and keywords of a PDF document using PDF Mod. Multiple documents may be combined via drag and drop.
Xmind is a powerful creative tool that makes it simple to gather, analyze and share your ideas with others. It’s one of the most popular mind mapping tools. XMind has simple and intuitive interface that makes you focused only on what really matters — your ideas.
SOFA — Statistics Open For All — is a user-friendly statistics, analysis, & reporting program. SOFA lets you display results in an attractive format ready to share, make charts, produce attractive report tables, perform a range of basic statistical tests. 
GnuCash is a personal and small-business financial-accounting software. GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. It has double-entry bookkeeping, scheduled transactions, mortgage and loan repayment assistant, small business accounting features, multi-currency transaction handling, and other features.
SOFA is an Open Source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation. It is mostly intended for the research community to help develop newer algorithms, but can also be used as an efficient prototyping tool.
Mozilla makes Yahoo the default Firefox search engine in the U.S. In Russia it uses Yandex, and Baidu in China. Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Amazon, Twitter and Wikipedia will continue to be built-in as alternative search engine options. Google has been the Firefox global search default since 2004, and Google will continue to power the Safe Browsing and Geolocation features in Firefox..jpg)
Mozilla makes Yahoo the default Firefox search engine in the U.S. In Russia it uses Yandex, and Baidu in China. Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Amazon, Twitter and Wikipedia will continue to be built-in as alternative search engine options. Google has been the Firefox global search default since 2004, and Google will continue to power the Safe Browsing and Geolocation features in Firefox.
Scribus is a publishing application with a broad set of page layout features. It’s designed for flexible layout and typesetting and the ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. It can also create animated and interactive PDF presentations and forms. Whether you’re creating Brochures, Business Cards, Cards, Newsletters, PDF Presentations, Packaging, or Posters, you’ll have several templates to choose from.
Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. It supports PDF, postscript, djvu, tiff and dvi. Evince has simple interface, customizable toolbar, thumbnail view. It will help you to view properties of document (such as author, creation date, number of pages, fonts), search and rotate the document, use multiple modes for viewing the PDF files.
LibreCAD is a powerful application for 2D computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting. LibreCAD can import files created with AutoCAD (.dxf) and in LucasFilm Format (.lff) and export drawings to wide range of formats. This app has customizable interface, which allows to use layers to create your blueprints and to measure lengths and dimensions right inside the drawing.
Pinta is a drawing and editing application modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images. Pinta is a bitmap image editor with many features typical of image editing software including drawing tools, image filters and colour adjustment tools. It also has unlimited layers to help separate and group elements of your image for easy editing.
VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts. You can use them for time management, to organize tasks, to get an overview over complex contexts. It helps to use both sides of your brain: the logical side and also your creative side (e.g. by using pictures, colors and keywords in a map, so called anchors).
KMines is a puzzle game where you locate mines floating in an ocean using only your brain and a little bit of luck. The idea is to uncover all the squares without blowing up any mines. The player cannot know the exact location of the mines before the game is over. Numbers will indicate nearby mines. When a mine is blown up, the game is over.