We are permanently working on expanding our applications collection. Today we’d like to present to you five new applications, which are now available for running online on any device and platform. Try them out in the cloud!
AbiWord is a lean yet full-featured word processor. It features a familiar-looking interface, basic character formatting, paragraph alignment, a spell checker, interactive rulers and tabs, styles, unlimited undo/redo, find and replace, and image support.
Sweet Home 3D is a design application that helps you draw the plan of your house (any other accommodation), arrange furniture on it and visit the results in 3D. You may add walls and rooms, doors, windows and furniture from a catalog; update colors, texture, size and orientation of furniture, walls, floors and ceilings.
Frozen Bubbleis a game that features 100 levels and includes a level editor. Penguins a la Tux in this game shoot the coloured frozen bubbles to form groups of the same colour. Such groups disappear and the object is to clear the whole screen in this way before a bubble passes a line at the bottom.
Cain performs stochastic and deterministic simulations of chemical reactions. It stores models, simulation parameters, and simulation results in an XML format. In addition, SBML models can be imported and exported. The models and simulation parameters can be read from input files or edited within the program.
Dictionary is a nice simple dictionary app. A windowed application, with good typographic results, search capabilities, bookmarks/favorite words, last searches. Look up words in dictionaries.
In order to make more of your favorite desktop applications available to you on other platforms - we are working on expanding our applications collection. Let us introduce some of the applications we’ve added today. Each of them is now available for running online on any device and platform.
FreeCAD is a parametric 3D modeler. Key features - a full parametric modeling, a Sketcher, a Robot simulation, a Drawing sheets, a Rendering module, import/export to standard formats such as STEP, IGES, OBJ, STL, DXF, SVG, STL, DAE, IFC or OFF, NASTRAN, VRML in addition to FreeCAD’s native Fcstd file format, going back into your model history and changing its parameters.
GeoGebra is dynamic educational app for all levels of studying mathematics joining geometry, algebra, tables, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. You can do constructions with points, vectors, segments, lines, conic sections as well as functions and change them dynamically afterwards.
Agave is a very simple application that allows you to generate a variety of color schemes from a single starting color. Generate 6 different types of color schemes: Complements, Split Complements, Triads, Tetrads, Analogous, and Monochromatic.
Celestia is a space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. You can vary the number of stars that are visible on the screen and have them drawn in different styles.
Klavaro is a simple yet effective typing tutor program for everyone from beginners to experienced computer users. Klavaro has introductory materials to learn how to type correctly and 4 levels of courses/exercises for training: Basic Cours, Adaptability, Speed, Fluidity.
Microsoft brings Bing search inside online docs. WithInsights for Office you can perform searches using Bing right when you are working on your document. Microsoft assures that Insights for Office can use the words from your entire document to find exactly what you are looking for. Currently this feature available only for English and promised to be always free.
New smartphone with Firefox OS from LG. The screenshots shared by @Upleaks via Twitter show the LG L25 appears to be a mid-range smartphone with a 4.6-inch with design similar to iPhone. The LG L25 is going to be the most powerful Firefox OS device according to GSM Arena. Release date has not been announced yet.
The rumor goes that Acer is going to launch the world’s first 15.6 inch Chromebook. Model C910 will be available in two configurations with HD or FHD resolution. RAM has usual choices - the 2GB (16GB of internal storage) or 4GB (32GB of internal storage) models will be available along with Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth 4.0, USB 3.0 and HDMI ports. Initial launch in the US is planned for March 2015, in Europe the device will become available later in the year.
Great news – we’ve just released an update that makes possible to sign up for rollApp with an email and password.
This would make it easier for new and existing users to login to their rollApp account from ever increasing range of devices. You can now choose what’s more convenient for you: login with one of your social accounts (Google, Facebook or Amazon), or use plain email and password. What’s even better – you can do both! If you used to login to rollApp with social login, you can create a password on your profile page at rollapp.com and use both options to login to rollApp.
With this update login with Yahoo or Twitter will no longer be available. If you used Yahoo or Twitter account to login to rollApp, please check email inbox, we sent you instructions on how to switch to logging in to rollApp with email and password.
Last week was fairly slow and this week there were more interesting events.
Financial Times reports that Google Chromebooks became more popular in US schools than iPads. The difference is not big: 715,500 Chromebooks versus 702,000 iPads in Q3 2014 – but the fact remains. Attractive price and ever-increasing functionality make Chromebooks a good choice for classroom. With rollApp many of the useful applications for education are now available in the cloud for Chromebook users.
Google announced a new feature in Gmail – ability toeditMicrosoft Office documents attachments with Google Docs. It will also be possible to edit Office files without converting them to Google Docs with a Chrome extension. If you need to do some advanced editing of your office documents you can always use OpenOffice or LibreOffice on rollApp.
Lukas Blakk, Mozilla release manager, in posted in his twitter, “We need to be where our users are so we’re going to get Firefox on iOS”. It’s unclear how Mozilla plans to bring its Firefox browser to iOS, because Apple doesn’t allow third-party browser engines to be used in iOS applications. Even Google Chrome for iOS uses Apple’s engine for rendering the web pages. We’ll see if and how Mozilla will be able to get its browser onto Apple’s mobile platform.
That’s all for this week, see you next weekend. And don’t forget to follow us in Twitter,Facebookand Google+.