It's Friday and in our digest we look back at the most interesting tech news of the week.

Project Ara – modular phone from Google – is making progress. The idea of project Ara is to create a modular smartphone with hardware elements that can be customized according to user’s needs. The phone is built using different blocks that can be interchanged, so that desirable configuration can be created with a reasonable cost. Google is pushing the Project Ara as a revolutionary concept that will make phones affordable for 5 billion people that don't have a phone yet. In the video below you can get a sense of how it is coming together in the prototype called Spiral 1.

Google released a brand new Bookmarks Manager extension that replaces current Chrome bookmarks management UI. When you "star" a page, it automatically grabs image from the page adding a vibrant touch to otherwise pale list of bookmarks. The great thing is that it will also add images to all of your existing bookmarks as well.


Another cool feature is Auto Folders – it automatically groups all your bookmarks by topics. Also with new extensions you can easily make your bookmark folders public and share them with your friends. This extension requires Chrome 38 and you have be signed into Chrome and have sync enabled.

• It's free – no worry about license costs or annual fees. And with rollApp it is available on any device equipped with a web browser.
• LibreCAD can imports files created with AutoCAD (.dxf) and in LucasFilm Format (.lff).
• LibreCAD can export drawings to wide range of formats: .bw, .eps, .epsf, .epsi, .pcx, .rgb, .rgba, .sgi, .tga, .bmp, .gp2, .gpg, .pic, .ppm, .tif, .xbn, .xpm, .xv. 

Welcome to our traditional Friday digest where we look at the most interesting news of the Tech world. This week was not so rich for news, as a previous one, but there were some news we are excited about.

Google Inbox

The news to start with is Inbox — Google's email app for Android, iOS, and the web. The new app is all about focus on what really matters. Inbox has bundles feature that groups emails for convenient, quick reading and managing; and highlights that shows important information at a glance. In general, inbox makes impression not of an ordinary email client, it looks like Google made a try of transformation email client into organizer like app. Also it has reminders, assists, and snooze features that makes Inbox pretty cool app for people who work with email following Zero inbox approach.


The bad news with Inbox is that it's available only by invitation. To request an invite, send email to inbox@google.com.

Samsung Chromebook 2

The new Chromebook from Samsung has a new, metal design. Better, Intel processor. And it's priced $50 lower than previous generation — $250. But it has a significant disadvantage, the 'new' Chromebook has 2 GB RAM, while the 'old' one has 4 GB. It's quite compromising configuration and price, but maybe new Intel processor has capabilities to perform with 2 GB of RAM as well as Samsung's Exynos 5 Octa chip do.

Microsoft Cloud Event

The last news we'd like to discuss is Microsoft Cloud Event, which was held on October, 20. Microsoft, Amazon and Google are top companies to be a winner in the cloud space. Microsoft has taken its turn. So, it was introduced the new memory-intensive “G-series” instances for Microsoft’s Azure public cloud, which has more the amount of memory than Amazon Web Services virtual machines and Google Compute machines.

A “cloud platform system” in partnership with Dell is a big deal from a competitive perspective for Microsoft, because Google and Amazon don’t yet offer cloud-friendly hardware. What will their response look like? We will monitor the race in this area, new press events and announcements.

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At rollApp we move existing applications to the cloud. And we are constantly working on expanding our apps catalog and on making them available on new platforms, browsers and devices. 

Today we have a great news for Opera users: rollApp applications now work in Opera!



And not only that! Our best selling browser extension File Opener – a simple tool to open files right from the web page – is also available for Opera users. With File Opener you don't have to worry neither about installing software to open files, nor downloading files themselves. Extension can cope with all office documents, e-books and archives you'll find on the web— it supports more than 500 file types.


To install File Opener in Opera you have to do a small trick: install Opera add-on that allows to install extensions from Chrome Web Store. That's worth doing because with that you will be able to install not only File Opener but other extensions from Chrome Web Store.

Here's a step-by-step guide on how to install File Opener for Chrome in Opera.

1. Install Download Chrome Extension add-on.

2. Open File Opener in the Chrome Web Store and click the Free button to install it.

3. Notification will pop up with warning that the extension is coming from an unknown source (Opera does not directly recognize Chrome Web Store hence the warning). Click Go there.

4. Extensions page opens. Click Install on the rollApp File Opener and then again click Install in pop-up that appears.

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rollApp application are available across the wide range of platforms: various desktop OSes and browsers, Chromebooks, iPads, and Android tablets. We are constantly working to make your favorite applications more and more accessible with rollApp. That is why we are always looking for ways to make the applications closer to you on the devices you use.  If you happen to use a Chromebook (or the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac or Linux) or the Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet, you can launch apps not only from rollapp.com, but also install them on your device. Here is how it works.


As a result you will now be only one click away from launching the application in the cloud on rollApp:


On Kindle or another Android tablet with Amazon App Store it works in a similar way. Tap on the "Available at Amazon" badge and complete the install of the application. You can launch powerful cloud app right from your tablet's home screen.


Enjoy! Now you can quickly access all the apps you need in just one click.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them below or reach us via Twitter, Facebook or our support email.

Welcome to our traditional Friday digest of last week's interesting news and events.

Chromebooks are still a hot new thing and if you are looking for new computer, be sure to take a look at the 7 best Chromebooks of 2014.

A surprising news that came last week was that Adobe brings Photoshop to Chrome OS. This is a beta version of technology and it will be available exclusively to select North America based Adobe education customers with a paid Creative Cloud membership. If you cannot get your hand on the Photoshop for Chromebook just yet, you can get GIMP powered by rollApp from the Chrome Web Store right now. It works for everybody without any limitations not only on Chromebooks but on any Chrome equipped devices!


GIMP is powerful graphics editor with vast retouching and image editing capabilities. More about GIMP.

Another big news of the week is the announce of Windows 10. Microsoft promises to ship Windows 10 to consumers and enterprise later in the year of 2015, but you can try out a technical preview that's already available. We will keep an eye on the development of this topic.

Stay with us to know more interesting about rollApp and IT industry as a whole. Follow us in Twitter, lets become friends on Facebook, send your questions to our support email. And have a good weekend!