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Interesting this week: graphics app, Chrome Remote Desktop
Welcome to our weekly news digest! Let’s recall the most interesting tech news of the last week.
“Hello Krita” — “Goodbye Photoshop”. The ATI (Art and Technology of Image) department at University Paris 8 plans to shift from using Adobe Photoshop to Calligra Krita 2.8. The quoted reason for the switch is weak support from the Adobe and opportunity to study the code and tweak it.
We have Krita and other applications from the Calligra Suite in our apps collection, so you can easily try them for yourself.
Meanwhile, Adobe released Lightroom mobile for Android phones. If you are a Creative Cloud subscriber you will be able to work in Lightroom with exposure, highlights, shadows, composure, and so on, but for more complicated things you’ll have to go back to the Lightroom on desktop.
Google launched Chrome Remote Desktop app for iOS. This feature allows you to access your computer running Chrome from your iPhone or iPad. You can download the app from Apple App Store and use the app to securely access your files or applications from another computer or give someone temporary access to your desktop so they can help you solve a problem.
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Emacs is a popular, extensible and customizable text editor that has finally moved to the cloud. It has content-sensitive editing modes, including syntax coloring, for a variety of file types including plain text, source code, and HTML. Full Unicode support and other features.
Marble is a generic geographical map app. The Marble shows the earth as a sphere but does not require hardware acceleration. It has globe and atlas views of the Earth and Moon; street, satellite, topographic and educational maps; weather, day/night view, and more
Golly is a complex mathematical puzzle based on algorithms and cellular automation that are beyond the understanding of most general users. If you’ve ever heard of ‘The Game of Life’ then you’ll probably like what you see in Golly.
Konquest is a galactic strategy game. Players conquer other planets by sending ships to them. The goal is to build an interstellar empire and ultimately conquer all other player’s planets. You should own the entire galaxy.
Grisbi is a personal accounting program. Grisbi can handle multiple accounts, currencies and users. It helps you manage your money using third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other information.
If you are looking for an app available online, on any device let us know. Maybe we already have it in our collection, or we’ll add it, if it’s possible. Contact us on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or at support@rollapp.com.
First week of the year in review: CES 2015, Chrome apps on Mac
Welcome to our digest with the most interesting tech news of the last week!
Naturally, most news come from the Consumer Electronics Show 2015, which took place in Las Vegas last week.
Acer introduced Chromebook 15 that is the biggest Chromebook you can buy at the moment. It is also the first Chrome OS device to use new 5th generation Intel Core processors.
Be sure the check out great 3-minute video from the Verge about more than 250 gadgets presented at CES. If you prefer to read rather than watch, these reviews of the most interesting things shown at CES from AppleInsider and PCMag.
Chrome web apps will soon behave like native apps on Mac.
Chrome Apps can be launched from pretty much anywhere on OS X. They appear in the Chrome App Launcher, Spotlight, Launchpad and Finder, and lodge a separate entry in the Dock like a regular native Mac app.
— omgchrome reports. That sounds great! When this feature will become available it would be even easier to get and use apps from our ever growing apps collection at Chrome Web Store.
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New Year — New Apps in the Cloud
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LibreOffice Math is a formula editor, which lets you create and edit perfectly-formatted mathematical and scientific formulas. These formulas could be inserted in your text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings. Formulas can include a wide range of elements, such as fractions, terms with exponents and indices, integrals, matrices, and others.
Pencil is a great graphics tool for animation/drawing. With the help of Pencil you can create traditional hand-drawn animations (cartoons) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is intended to be a simple program enabling anyone to make 2D animation.
HangMan is the classical hangman 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. Choose your strategy to be the winner!
Kig is a program for exploring geometric constructions. It has some facilities for scripting in Python, as well as the creating macros from existing constructions. Serves as a tool for drawing mathematical figures and including them in other documents.
MuseScore is a visual music composition and notation program. It has a lot of features, such as unlimited number of staves up to four voices per staff, playback with integrated sequencer and FluidSynth software synthesizer, 43 languages support, etc. Create, play and print beautiful sheet music with MuseScore!
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Tech News of the Week: Samsung ATIV Book 9, Goodbye Internet Explorer, Tech Trends of 2015
Naturally, this week was quiet, but the tech world never sleeps and we found some interesting news for you.
Samsung is preparing a new laptop – ATIV Book 9 – for launch in early 2015. What makes this 12.2" laptop special is that it is one of the first laptops to use the Intel Core M processor, that allows to get rid of the CPU fan. The Core M processor gives the laptop performance and battery life on par with other today’s laptops. This fanless laptop is one of the first of its bred, let’s wait and see what other manufacturers will have to offer.
Microsoft is building a new browser with codename Spartan. It’s supposed to be a speedy, simpler browser, which is based on Internet Explorer’s Chakra JavaScript engine and Trident rendering engine. There is no much information about the new browser yet, but it may come out as a beta in one of the Technical Previews for Microsoft’s Windows 10.
The first major event of 2015 is going to be the Consumer Electronics Show. Mashable names 5 tech trends to look for at the show this year: smart home, smarter wearebles, virtual reality, car 2.0 and others. That’s sounds amazing and exciting especially if you remember that only a few decades ago people imaged 2015 in a whole different way! :-)
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