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30 Handy Chrome Extensions and Apps for Your Chromebook
You’ve bought your first Chromebook: now what?
How much work can you really do right from your browser? What’s the best way to get stuff done and access your growing collection of files? Whether you’re a new Chromebook user, or just someone who considers buying it, in this post you’ll find a bunch of amazing Chrome extensions and apps that will make your online life more efficient.
Productivity
- Feedly – read the content of your favorite sites.
- Any.do – remember everything you have to do.
- Evernote Web Clipper – save things you see on the web into your Evernote account.
- Google Keep – capture what’s on your mind and be reminded at the right place or time.
- LastPass – save all your usernames and passwords to LastPass, and it will autologin to your sites and sync your data everywhere you need it.
- The Great Suspender – unload, park, suspend tabs to reduce memory footprint of chrome.
- Google Voice – make calls, send SMS, preview Inbox, and get notified of new messages. (US only).
- Hola Better Internet – access blocked websites.
- rollApp File Opener – open 500+ file types right in your browser.
- Photo Zoom for Facebook – see the larger images of photo albums, profile photos and more whenever you hover over a zoomable image.
- Facebook for Chrome – access to your Facebook news, notifications, and friends right from your Chrome toolbar.
- Silver Bird – follow your timelines and interact with your Twitter account.
- Buffer – share great content to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
- Instagram for Chrome – browse your feed and friends, like and comment.
- PDF Mergy – select the files you want to merge from you computer or drop them on the app using drag and drop.
- Ginger’s spell & grammar checker and Grammar checker – contextual grammar checker and spell checker.
- LibreOffice Writer on rollApp – full-featured word processing and desktop publishing tool.
- LibreOffice Calc on rollApp – create, edit, and share spreadsheets in your browser.
- OpenOffice Impress on rollApp – create multimedia presentations.
- OpenOffice Draw on rollApp – produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations.
Graphics & Drawings
- Lightshot (screenshot tool) – make screenshot of any selected area (video and flash too), edit and upload.
- GIMP on rollApp – image retouching and editing app.
- Sumo Paint – image editor and graphics app.
- Pixlr Editor – advanced photo editor.
- Balsamiq Mockups – add and edit UI wireframes directly from your Google Drive.
- AutoCAD 360 – view, edit, and share DWG drawings through your web browser with the AutoCAD WS web and mobile application.
- Planetarium – an interactive sky map for exploring the stars and planets.
- BioDigital Human – understand health and the human body in 3D.
- My Chrome Theme – create and share Google Chrome themes of your own design.
- SoundCloud – create, record and share the sounds you create with anyone using SoundCloud.
Introducing Support for Non-English Characters And Keyboards
While using our cloud apps, LibreOffice or OpenOffice, rollApp users were able to type in only English characters. If they tried typing in non-English characters – like š, č or ž – nothing happened, no character were displayed like they hadn’t pressed any key.
As would be expected, many users (mostly European) asked us to make their regular tasks easier by handling non-English characters properly. Back in 2013, our engineers started working towards a fix.
Today, we’ve delivered a hotfix to all our apps. From now on, if you enter text in languages other than English, rollApp allows you to use non-English characters – you can try it with our office apps here: rollapp.com/Office.
Let us know how it works for you!
- The rollApp team
rollApp in the Press: Useful, Handy, Awesome
We couldn’t be more thrilled with the progress we’ve made with rollApp. And now we’re really excited to share with you some recent press and blog mentions related to the availability of the latest version of LibreOffice on iPad and Chromebooks thanks to rollApp.
The Document Foundation Blog: The Document Foundation is happy to acknowledge that the most recent version of LibreOffice – the best free office suite ever – is available on the iPad and Chromebooks as a cloud application, thanks to rollApp online virtualization technology.
Softpedia: Thanks to the rollApp online virtualization technology, LibreOffice is now available on iPads, combating Apple’s iWork suite and other (third-party) productivity tools which generally cost money to use.
FossForce: Goodbye Google Docs, hello LibreOffice. Here at FOSS Force we use Google Docs quite a bit, due to it’s portability (write once, edit anywhere). There’s just one thing we don’t like. Google Docs doesn’t support the free and open ODF standard. Well, we don’t have to worry about that anymore, as rollApp is offering-up LibreOffice as a cloud based app that runs in a browser. The service is free if you don’t mind video ads, although the site is offering a 14 day ad free trial run.
DobreProgramy: Running in a browser application behaves almost the same as the original version, regardless of the user’s system. Short tests LibreOffice launched by rollApp argue that all works quite smoothly (like browser-based application), making this technology a good way to introduce classical desktop applications where they have not yet been. This is especially good news for Google, which cheap laptops running Chrome OS. There are also both simple games, like Mastermind, or Reversi and complex graphics packages - Inkscape and Darktable.
Muktware: LibreOffice, one of the fieriest competitors of Microsoft Office, is now available on Google Chromebooks (or anything that runs the Chrome browser) and Apple’s iPad. The app is available via cloud so just like Google Docs or Microsoft Office 365 users don’t have to install any app and it runs directly from the browser.
TabletZona: The advantages of LibreOffice is that it is very easy to use. We can create documents, edit and save in different storage cloud. That is, we can have them stored in Dropbox or even Google Drive. The best thing is that it is completely compatible with Microsoft Office suite and file formats. visit the rollApp website - there are other virtual tools that you might find useful.
LinuX Freedom for Live: A viable alternative comes from rollApp project, a SaaS service that allows us to use / access many open source applications available directly from our browser. Thanks to the support for Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, 4Shared and we can start saving our favorite files within the various services are cloud servers.
NoSoloUnix: Many times, you need an office suite or an image editor and the site where you find you do not have them, a very annoying situation and you can cause several setbacks, but we can say that a thing of the past thanks to rollApp. This is a site able to run different programs online open source without having the program installed on the device you use a web browser and a decent internet connection being only necessary to use the programs.
MuyLinux: rollApp provides a lot of well-known apps directly from the web browser: Inkscape, GIMP, Gedit, Evince and so on. You can use the app you want for free, with advertising. Or you can remove the advertising paying $0.99 per month per application or $ 6.99 for unlimited access.
Bubblews: Access to the connected LibreOffice on Apple’s touchscreen tablet version and the Chrome OS netbooks to Google, is possible thanks to the technology developed by the California startup rollApp. Via the rollApp cloud users can connect to the LibreOffice application of their choice (eg, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing) from their web browser without having to install the application on their device.
We’re really honored to receive such high praise from all over the world. Thank you and stay tuned for even more great things in 2014!
Customize Your rollApp Using Quick Launch Menu
You can add the apps you use most often – office, graphics, games – to your rollApp account using the Quick Launch toolbar. This comes especially in handy when you need to have your browser-based apps on rollApp favorited across different devices: desktop computer, iPad, Chromebook.
Next time you want to get the instant access to the apps you use more often – just click the Quick Launch in the top right and select an app you need:
What feature do you want to see in the near future? Let us know!
- The rollApp team
Cloud Game of the Week: KMahjongg on rollApp
Mahjong is a very popular board game throughout Eastern and South Eastern Asia, played with a set of 144 tiles based on Chinese characters and symbols (Dots, Bamboos, Characters, Winds, Dragons, Flowers, Seasons.) One of the legends of the Mahjong origin suggests that Confucius developed the game in about 500 BC.
In 2005 the World Mahjong Organization (WMO) was founded in Beijing, China, with the cooperation of Japan Mahjong Organizing Committee (JMOC) and European Mahjong Association (EMA).
Mahjong or Mahjongg solitaire, and so KMahjongg on rollApp (rollapp.com/app/kmahjongg), is a matching game that uses a set of mahjong tiles rather than cards.
Game Objective
The objective of KMahjongg is to remove all the tiles off the game board by locating each tile’s matching pair as quickly as possible.
To start the game in your browser (Chrome, Firefox or Safari), click the Launch Online button:
How to Play
According to the game’s rules, you should carefully study the stack of tiles laid out on the game board and find two tiles matching exactly. When you have found such a pair use your mouse to select these. Once you have selected the right pair of tiles they will vanish off the game board, thus revealing the tiles previously located underneath, and opening the tiles adjacent to them. Find as many matches as possible to remove all the tiles from the game board.
- Only the ‘open’ tiles can be selected.
- Open’ tile is the tile which has one of the tile’s lateral sides open, meaning that no other tiles are located immediately next to it.
- Only when matching, open tiles can be removed from the game board.
- Matching tiles are those where the face pictograms match.
You can use the Tiles selector (Settings > Configure KMahjongg) to choose graphics for the tiles:
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