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Ebook Reader, Archive Manager and Raster Graphics Editor Arrive on rollApp
Great news! Today we’ve released 3 more apps to our cloud App Collection – all are intuitive, fast, and ready to help you get things done right from your web browser.
FBReader is an easy to use ebook reader in the cloud. The app supports popular ebook formats like ePub, fb2, mobi, html, and plain text. Just launch the app and read the books from your cloud storage: Dropbox, Google Drive or Box.
All the features you want from your ebook reader.
File Roller allows you to view the content of your archives, extract files, create and modify archives. Again, all you need is a browser: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Safari.
It saves time by opening files faster in cloud storage.
Making photo editing a breeze.
What apps do you want to come on rollApp? Let us know!
- The rollApp team
Cloud App of the Week: Thesaurus for Chrome, Firefox and Safari Called Artha
Artha is a Sanskrit term meaning “purpose, cause, motive, meaning”. It also refers to the idea of wealth and prosperity.
Artha is an ease-to-use thesaurus based on WordNet, the large lexical database of English, where nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept, in other words, they are linked semantically.
Unlike other dictionaries and thesauruses, Artha on rollApp can be used in your browser – on desktop, iPad or Chromebook.
Artha 1.0.3 key features include global hotkey look-up, regular expression based search, spelling suggestions for a misspelled word, i.e. when a misspelled word is queried for, Artha provides near-match suggestions.
For a given word, the possible relatives shown by the Artha app includes
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Derivatives
- Pertainyms (Related Noun/Verb)
- Attributes
- Similar Terms
- Domain Terms
- Entails (what verb entails doing)
- Causes (what a verb causes to)
- Hypernyms (is a kind of)
- Hyponyms (kinds)
- Holonyms (is a part of)
- Meronyms (parts)
Go to www.rollApp.com/app/artha and click Launch Online:
About WordNet
WordNet’s structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.
WordNet superficially resembles a thesaurus, in that it groups words together based on their meanings. But there are some distinctions. First, WordNet interlinks not just word forms—strings of letters—but specific senses of words. As a result, words that are found in close proximity to one another in the network are semantically disambiguated. Second, WordNet labels the semantic relations among words, whereas the groupings of words in a thesaurus does not follow any explicit pattern other than meaning similarity.
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How to Turn Your iPad into a Handy Office Document File Viewer
While sipping your morning coffee, an email with an unknown file has arrived into your inbox on iPad from a friend in Denmark. The friend is asking you to proofread her resume ASAP. No problemo, but unexpectedly Google Drive tells that the file cannot be viewed. Ouch!
So how can you view the document on iPad? How to save it to your iPad in an easily accessible way? Maybe convert it to the .doc format but, again, how?
You’re starting to panic. Your coffee is getting cold.
And what if there’s not only a .doc file you ever need to open, but files of other formats like .ods, .csv or .rtf – how to quickly preview them?
You go to refill your coffee and notice that there are still more croissants. You grab them all.
Your adrenaline is up and suddenly you think to yourself: “iPad is such a magical device and you’re living in the age of technology so there’s MUST be a solution to that problem.” And you’re right!
The conventional wisdom tells us that we cannot read a file without an app that is compatible with that file. That’s false for the cloud computing era.
To view and edit office docs on your iPad all you need is a browser and rollApp.com.
To view and edit office docs on your iPad all you need is a browser and rollApp.com.
As the iPad doesn’t have a file system, rollApp allows you to work with files (open, save, edit) directly in your Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box account. So if you want to view a document – that resume from your friend – just create your rollApp account and connect your favorite cloud storage to it.
Then, using Chrome or Safari, go to an office app on rollApp.com – for example LibreOffice Writer or OpenOffice Writer, click Launch Online, use File > Open to locale the file you previously saved in your cloud storage. And you’re all set!
Below are just some major file formats you can open and view with OpenOffice apps via rollApp on your iPad:
Text documents:
OpenDocument formats (.odt, .ott, .oth, and .odm):
Microsoft Word 6.0/95/97/2000/XP (.doc and .dot)
Microsoft Word 2003 XML (.xml)
Microsoft Word 2007 XML (.docx, .docm, .dotx, .dotm)
Microsoft WinWord 5 (.doc)
WordPerfect Document (.wpd)
.rtf, .txt, and .csv
Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Spreadsheets:
OpenDocument formats (.ods and .ots)
Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP (.xls, .xlw, and .xlt)
Microsoft Excel 4.x–5.0/95 (.xls, .xlw, and .xlt)
Microsoft Excel 2003 XML (.xml)
Microsoft Excel 2007 XML (.xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .xltm)
Microsoft Excel 2007 binary (.xlsb)
Lotus 1-2-3 (.wk1, .wks, and .123)
Data Interchange Format (.dif)
Rich Text Format (.rtf)
Text CSV (.csv and .txt)
Opening presentations:
OpenDocument formats (.odp, .odg, and .otp)
Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP (.ppt, .pps, and .pot)
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx, .pptm, .potx, .potm)
Rolling out New Browser-Based Online Games, on rollApp
The goal of rollApp is to help people be more productive using a web browser, no matter what hardware they are running.
Surprisingly, during Fall 2013, we’ve received many new requests, especially from the growing number of Chromebook users, to update our cloud-based Game Collection. You’ve asked, we’ve listened. Starting today, in addition to popular and well-recommended games like Mahjongg, GLines, Gweled, and Tanglet, you can play three more games right in your browser.
Hangman
The origins of Hangman are obscure, but it seems to have arisen in Victorian times. In the game, the player should guess a word letter by letter. At each miss, the picture of a hangman appears. After 10 tries, if the word is not guessed, the game is over and the answer is displayed.
Mastermind
Mastermind is a code-breaking game for two players. The goal of this game is to break a hidden color code following the hints that the game gives us.
Tali
Tali is a sort of poker with dice and less money. You roll five dice three times and try to create the best hand. Your two re-rolls may include any or all of your dice.
Want to see more games? Let us know!
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Cloud App of the Week: Inkscape for Vector Graphics on iPad and Chromebook
Browser-based Inkscape is an incredibly useful vector graphics editor available on rollApp’s cloud (enjoy drawing on iPad) and in the Chrome Web Store (perfect for Chromebook owners). It’s used in many different ways from creative art and web graphics to technical diagrams and navigation development.
If you are used to working with Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, Inkscape comes with similar capabilities and uses the Scalable Vector Graphics file format supporting many advanced SVG features: markers, clones, alpha blending.
Still, the application is more focused on popular vector graphics editing capabilities, including transparency, gradients, node editing, and pattern fills.
Inkscape stores its graphics in a vector format but it also can import and display bitmap images. For working with files – right through your browser – you’ll able to connect your rollApp account to Google Drive, Dropbox and Box.
“This reduces my need to use my Linux Mint Netbook to some advanced GIMP features.” ~ James Kissel
The Inkscape developers are working on the new powerful version of Inkscape 0.49. Stay tuned!
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