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The Mobile Ecosystem at Mobile World Congress 2014
Here’s a rollApp journey throughout Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on 24-27 February 2014 – more than 85,000 attendees from over 200 countries; next generation product showcases and announcements in Mobile Apps, Mobile Cloud, Digital Commerce, NFC, and Green Technology from companies like Facebook, Samsung, Nokia, Huawei, Mozilla.
Witnessing the industry’s continued expansion and growth at Fira Gran Via.
Introducing Kile, a LaTeX Environment in the Cloud
We continue adding new apps created by developers for developers. Meet Kile, an integrated LaTeX environment, that brings all the capabilities of LaTeX in a graphical interface, giving you easy, immediate, and customized access to all programs for LaTeX code-completion, compiling, debugging, conversion and viewing tools; you also get very handy wizards, a LaTeX reference and a powerful project management.
Kile on rollApp can be easily used right in your browser: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and is integrated with cloud space of your choice: Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box.
Kile is similar to other apps that deal with source code and editing, and will automatically highlight commands, options and items that are used. Kile makes it easy to spot problematic areas and provides one-click document compilation/display and auto-completion of LaTeX commands.
What is LaTeX, anyway?
LaTeX is a text-processing system derived from TEX, a program developed originally in 1977 by Donald Knuth to help layout text in a professional way and obtain a layout quality that is on par with the work of a professional typesetter. LaTeX was created by Leslie Lamport to give authors an automatic typesetter, especially to ease the expensive and painstaking process of typesetting of mathematical formulas and expressions, which are enclosed within dollar signs in LaTeX for a reason. Today, word-processing programs let any user act as typesetter, but what is often needed is a document that simply looks good without having to spend hours to bring it into shape. LaTeX takes that burden on its shoulders, and lets you concentrate on the document instead of on the layout. And yes, it will look good! (source: The Kile Handbook)
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App of the Week: KWordQuiz – Master New Vocabularies
We have a newly published educational application in our App Collection – KWordQuiz. The app is designed to help you master new vocabularies, from a language to any other kind of terminology. You can use it without installation, right in your browser: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari.
How It Works
With KWordQuiz you build your own vocabulary documents in a simple and intuitive way. It comes with the Vocabulary Editor (a two-column spreadsheet), Flashcard and Multiple Choice sessions.
Before you start a quiz, you need to select how you want to practice. KWordQuiz offers five different modes to make practicing more efficient. The different modes make it possible to have the quiz go through your vocabulary in sequential or random order in one or both directions.
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How to Open a PDF, Ebook, Zip/Rar Archive, or Virtually Any File Just Using Firefox
Do you love Firefox and free coffee? Then visiting the Firefox booth at Mobile World Congress earlier this week in Spain was your opportunity to discuss the latest mobile trends, Firefox OS, $25 smartphones while sipping coffee and hanging with Mozillians.
Of course, Firefox is not as popular as Chrome, and while offering browser-based apps mostly for iPad (Safari), Chromebook (Chrome) and desktop (Firefox, Chrome, Safari) users, we at rollApp has developed a special add-on for the Firefox community. The extension is called rollApp File Opener and, at this time, it’s installed on 35K computers.
The latest version of the add-on opens 500 type of files including archives, documents, PDFs, ebooks, and graphics.
How It Works
Our File Opener allows you to customize your Firefox browser for viewing virtually any file that you might find while surfing the web. Moreover, the add-on is also integrated with your Dropbox cloud storage so you can improve your productivity and daily work flow by previewing, editing and saving the files you need right in the browser:
- Install the extension, hover the mouse over a link to a file you want to preview and click Open. Alternatively, open any files on the web by using Context Menu.
- Open and edit any files in your cloud storage and sync them across all your devices.
- Perfect for any desktop operating system.
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How to Turn Your Chromebook into a Productivity Powerhouse
Ever want to go beyond known limitations of your Chromebook? Welcome to rollApp Cloud. rollApp let you use popular desktop applications – many of them even not available in the Chrome Web Store – on your Chromebook, without downloading and installing them. How? Just launch an app you need in the Chrome web browser and you’re all set.
Keep in mind that using rollApp you’ll also be able to work with your files not only via Google Drive but also with your Dropbox or Box cloud storage. It’s super easy to connect and configure them in your rollApp profile.
Here’s a list of the most popular Chromebook apps available on rollApp platform:
1. Office Suites – full-fledged alternatives to Microsoft Office and Office365
- OpenOffice – powerful office package, compatible with all major document file formats.
- LibreOffice – word processing, spreadsheets, slides and diagrams. Create Word documents and edit Excel files.
- Calligra Suite – a relatively new set of standards-compliant office and graphics applications.
MyPaint – graphics application for digital painters. The app comes with a large brush collection including charcoal and ink to emulate real media, but the highly configurable brush engine allows you to experiment with your own brushes and with not-quite-natural painting.
Inkscape – a professional quality vector graphics application. It is used by design professionals and hobbyists worldwide, for creating a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics. Inkscape uses the W3C open standard SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as its native format. In contrast to raster (bitmap) graphics editors such as Photoshop or Gimp, Inkscape stores its graphics in a vector format. Vector graphics is a resolution-independent description of the actual shapes and objects that you see in the image. While Inkscape does not have all the features of the leading vector editors, the latest versions provide for a large portion of basic vector graphics editing capabilities.
KolourPaint – the apps is designed for tasks like drawing diagrams and “finger painting”; diting screenshots and photos; applying effects; drawing clipart and logos with transparency.
LibreCAD – a comprehensive 2D CAD application that comes with a range of tools to create 2D drawings for industrial design.
Darktable – a photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
3. Publishing
Scribus – a publishing application with a broad set of page layout features, comparable to leading applications such as Adobe PageMaker, QuarkExpress, and MS Publisher.
4. Diagramming
Dia – the app supports more than 30 different diagram types like flowcharts, network diagrams, database models. More than a thousand readymade objects help to draw professional diagrams. Dia can read and write a number of different raster and vector image formats. Software developers and database specialists can use Dia as a CASE tool to generate code skeletons from their drawings. Dia can be scripted and extended using Python.
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