Welcome to our traditional Friday digest of last week’s interesting news and events.

Chromebooks are still a hot new thing and if you are looking for new computer, be sure to take a look at the 7 best Chromebooks of 2014.

A surprising news that came last week was that Adobe brings Photoshop to Chrome OS. This is a beta version of technology and it will be available exclusively to select North America based Adobe education customers with a paid Creative Cloud membership. If you cannot get your hand on the Photoshop for Chromebook just yet, you can get GIMP powered by rollApp from the Chrome Web Store right now. It works for everybody without any limitations not only on Chromebooks but on any Chrome equipped devices!


GIMP is powerful graphics editor with vast retouching and image editing capabilities. More about GIMP.

Another big news of the week is the announce of Windows 10. Microsoft promises to ship Windows 10 to consumers and enterprise later in the year of 2015, but you can try out a technical preview that’s already available. We will keep an eye on the development of this topic.

Stay with us to know more interesting about rollApp and IT industry as a whole. Follow us in Twitter, lets become friends on Facebook, send your questions to our support email. And have a good weekend!

If it seems to you that during the week there was no news, perhaps it’s because you’ve just missed something interesting, to fix it check our traditional Friday digest.

Well, so what was going on this week. We are proud of the fact that from now our users can connect even more cloud storage to their rollApp account. This week we added OneDrive and Yandex Disk options, to learn more read our previous post.

Except the wide range of supported cloud storage rollApp has a wide collection of available apps. You can work with two productivity suites both OpenOffice and LibreOffice. Want to know what is the difference between them - discover it from the TechRepublic overview.

Amazon Fire Phone is appearing in our digest almost each week, though not in the very rainbow colors. This week PCMag decided to investigate the issue and answer the question "What’s Wrong With the Amazon Fire Phone?“ Anyway, bad buzz is still a buzz.

Mozilla Firefox in order not to make a bad buzz is fixing its "phishing friendly” cryptographic bug. Read more on how things go on the issue. 

As well in this post we will revise onсe again how to connect to the cloud storage as it seems to be a burning question.

The main thing you need to know - there are 2 options to connect your cloud storage. It’s up to you to choose. 

It can be done:

• From your rollApp account;
• Directly from the app you are using.

Connect from the account:

1. Login to your account with any suitable option (Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, Amazon)

2. Choose “cloud storage” tab from the menu.

3. Click the “connect new” button on the cloud storage page.

4. Choose your cloud storage from the drop-down menu. 

5. You can rename your cloud storage if needed. 

After logging in procedure all storages will ask for permission to access your data, this is security requirement. By accepting it you let rollApp connect to your existing and new files which you wish to open/edit/save with rollApp. 

7. Voila! Your cloud storage is connected,  so now you can work with files and share them easily.

Connect from the app:

1. Click on the “folder” icon on the toolbar in the app.

2. If you are using an app on desktop you will be redirected to rollApp website cloud storage page. How to connect a storage on the page is described above.

If you are doing it from a mobile device you will see a window with storage variants.

3. Choose the cloud storage you want to connect. Storage will ask you to login.

4. Confirm an rollApp access to your storage.

5. Now you can open, save and share files from your cloud storage. 

NOTE:

When you open an app on rollApp for the first time and then try to save or open a document, rollApp pops-up with a message saying No storage connected:



Click on “your profile” will redirect you to the cloud storage page, where the connection procedure is the same and described in the first part.

On the mobile device you can connect cloud storage straight way from the modal window.



Here is one more guide we have made in our previous post.

If you still have questions, feel free to ask them below or via any other suitable ways: Twitter, Facebook, support email.

Week is almost over, so weekly digest is already arrived. What was the hottest in tech world this week - find out below.

This week Chromebook news popped up from all over the web claiming about new models, new projects and future improvements to come. So here is the most interesting. Welcome new Toshiba Chromebook 2 and learn more why it’s so adorable. As well read the PCMag design, feature, performance review of Acer C720 Chromebook including similar models price comparison. 

If you don’t want to buy Chromebook you still can try it for free just to understand if it really fits your needs. The only thing you need is to be a US college student or have a friend there. The Chromebook Lending Library, new project from Google, provides students with library kiosks on college spot, where you can lend any Chromebook for 3 days, just to try out. Isn’t it great? Sounds interesting.

The second place in chart goes to Amazon, who made a big announcement this week, presenting new series of diverse Kindle Fire models. What Kindle fans can expect? It will be a superb quality sub-$100 tablet, two new e-readers, a high-end premium tablet, and even one for kids. Hopefully, this pleasant news will block Fire Phone price “adventure” and is more positive than predicted Amazon attempts to conquer European market. 

As rollApp is presented in Amazon App Store we are glad that the Kindle device range is updated, so more apps and more enhancements of our apps to come. And still don’t forget to give us your rate at Amazon store. 

Good news are also coming from LibreOffice. Italo Vignoli, who is one of the founders and a member of the Board of Directors of The Document Foundation, mentioned rollApp on his website. We are happy to bring Android users complete experience of LibreOffice productivity suite. You always can work with your favourite office apps in a browser via http://www.rollapp.com/libreoffice.

Since the positive way of thinking is more healthy, we collected positive news for users  from tech industry. Some companies are cutting their prices, some are improving their product, others are extending features. Get your portion of positive tech news below. 

Seems we haven’t cover Chromebook news for couple weeks, so now it’s time to fix it. The HP and Asus Chromebooks are catching the wave. HP Chromebooks will come with new Nvidia’s Tegra K1processor, superior graphics performance and several new colors. The price of Asus Chromebook was intriguing dropping buck by buck, however only now the eventual discount moment is revealed - The C200MA goes for $199.99 on Amazon and Newegg. 

OneDrive cloud storage also brings some good news to users. With extanded cloud space, enchanced syncing and sharing facilities OneDrive offers even more welcoming improvements. Wanna know what exactly? Check The Verge overview. And yes, soon rollApp will support OneDrive, so follow our updates. 

                                                               http://www.theverge.com/

We at rollApp are also thinking about our customers and are constantly implementing new useful and frienly changes to the apps’ work. Our recent Amazon Appstore support brings new version of all apps with increased fonts in application controls and couple of other enchanments. Besides don’t forget that from now rollApp applications can be downloaded straight away from Amazon Appstore on Kindle Fire and other Android devices. So please rate our 15+ desktop apps for mobile devices if you like them.

Amazon announced that the price of Fire phone will decrease to $0.99 with an AT&T contract. Despite that these price changes were caused by not quite pleasant circumstances for Amazon, users still may be happy, because it’s a nice chance to try if Fire phone is worth using. 

Gimp is an opensource software, thus community is caring about the product and are helping each other to learn more on how to simplify the work with the application. Check out a passage on how to automate image editing with Gimp.

Now you have enough of positive news to think over on weekend. Hope next week won’t be less interesting.

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