Time is one of the most valuable resources in our lives. Do you know how much time do you spend on typing a Facebook post, for instance? There are two great apps for your Chromebook that will definitely help you save precious minutes, no matter what you do with a computer. All of us write messages, emails, tweets, reports or essays. With no doubt typing skill is an essential part of computer literacy and everyday life for adults and for kids.
It used to take at least a minute to type a name with two fingers. Luckily that time has gone long ago. Now there is an alternative - touch typing with all ten fingers without even looking at the keyboard. How to learn it? The first application called KTouch really knows the answer.
Itβs a typing tutor specifically designed to gain and improve touch typing skills. The app has an effective set of typing lessons and exercises. You can use any free moment to work on typing speed and accuracy wherever you have your Chromebook and Internet connection. All your results are saved in statistics so you can easily track your progress.
The other app, Klavaro, buids your competence in typing in four stages. First, you learn positions of the keys and fingers βassignedβ for typing each symbol. Then you work on adaptability, speed, and fluidity of your typing. As the result, you will be able to type the whole paragraphs quickly, rhythmically and without misprints. Amazing, isnβt it?Β
Besides, Klavaro supports many languages, different keyboard layouts and allows to import your own texts for typing practice.
By the way, Guinness World Records states that the fastest time to type a text message on a touch-screen is 18.19 seconds. Can you beat that with your keyboard? Here is the text :
The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.
Have your beaten the record yet? No? Then you can use both of these typing tutors online to work on your typing speed. Good news is that to use this software no download is needed. Now you have everything to start improving your typing right away!Β
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Applications for education take special place in ourΒ cloud app collection. All of them are special and allow to study particular area of science or practice a useful skill. If you are into geometry GeoGebra on rollApp is definitely worth checking out.
GeoGebraΒ is a mathematics app for learning geometry and algebra, and working with tables, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package.
You can do constructions with points, vectors, segments, lines, conic sections and more. Β For example, you can easily, well, easily if you know how, Β inscribe a circle in a triangle:
You can work with functions and change them dynamically afterwards. Great feature is that you can enter equations and coordinates directly. Just choose "Perspectives" menu and there "Algebra & Graphics". It gives you great tool solve equations and plot graphics.
Other features of GeoGebra include:
Adding of unique objects: Points, Lines Through Two Points, Polygons, Ellipses, Angles, Reflect Objects, and Sliders;
Customization and configuration of each added object;
Creating and managing of new tools via a simple wizard;
Multilingual interface, and more
GeoGebra developers make their applicationΒ available in the Chrome Web Store. Using GeoGebra on rollApp you can work (export and import) with your files in cloud storage - Google Drive, Dropbox, and others. And with rollApp it will work not only on Chromebooks, but also on iPads, Android tablets and other devices. All you need to advance your math is just a web browser.
GeoGebra has received several educational software awards in Europe and USA.Β Try it onlineΒ right now!
As the number of online applications grows choosing apps for your Chromebook may become really challenging. To help you with that we would like to present you with some of the best apps for Chromebooks which will unlock full potential of your Chromebook device.
Working with text is the most common thing done with computers. Of course, there is Google Docs, which is the first natural choice for Chromebooks. However, many of the power users miss great document editing features available in desktop apps. And among the online text editors, we would like to highlight OpenOffice Writer as one of the best online apps for working with text documents. Its functionality is quite impressive: it will allow you to work with simple and complex documents from your Google Drive or other cloud storage. Β It comes with every feature you can expect from a modern text processor: use various fonts, styles, and text frames, create tables and diagrams, layout document, and all of that right in the browser. OpenOffice Writer supports many document formats including files created with Microsoft Office (.docx and .doc file extensions). Together with other applications from the OpenOffice family, it can become full-fledged office productivity solution for your Chrome device.
Apart from working with texts your Chromebook can do some fairly unexpected and sophisticated tasks.
For example, you can design entire house interior with Autodesk Homestyler online. It does not require any special skills β everyone can quickly create a plan of his house or apartment and fit it out with real furniture from real catalogs of the worldβs best brands. You can do that in 2D and fast 3D mode. The application allows to draw inspiration from other peopleβs projects or create and share your own designs. Try on a new wallpaper in your living room, move furniture in your bedroom or visualize the house of your dream on your Chromebook with this great online application.
Even the stars can become closer with Stellarium, the online planetarium on your Chromebook. You can explore the sky and learn interesting astronomy data about more than 600,000 objects in our endless Universe. The app creates Β admirably realistic night sky view, bright constellations, the Milky Way, dawns and sunsets from any point of the world.
As you can see, Chromebook is quite useful for work and education. It can bring you a lot of fun, too. If you are up to a five-minute break, check out these nice games for Chromebook.
The first game we want you to try is a charming online puzzle called Entanglement. Your goal is to make the longest path through hexagonal tiles. You can play different strategies in single-player mode or take part in the competition with other players. Relaxing soundtracks and beautiful backgrounds create a pleasant meditative atmosphere. Maybe we will find your name on the leaderboard some day!
Another choice to kill a spare minute is simple but absorbing puzzle game 2048. You get some tiles numbered 2, 4 on a 4Γ4 grid. Your goal is to make a tile with a value of 2048. You do that by pushing the tiles around the grid with the arrows on your keyboard. Tiles will slide, when two of the same value collide, they will merge into one with twice the value. This game is good for kids and adults, everyone can have fun playing it online for free.
As usually with online apps, you can try them with no download or installation. We hope this review was helpful. And let us know how you choose best online apps for your Chromebook.
Wishful thinking works. Sometimes. On rollApp Wishlist
A little while ago we created rollApp Wishlist β a place for you to suggest applications you would love to see on rollApp and vote for apps suggested by others. We've got some great suggestions so far and learned a few things about what kind of applications users want to use online.
Today we are ready to make first wishes come true Skype and Dwarf Fortress are now available online on rollApp.
Everybody knows Skype β great chat and voice and video calling application. Skype on rollApp does not support multimedia features (yet), but it allows to stay connected with your friends, participate in group chats and send and receive files in your Dropbox, Google Drive and other connected storage.
Drawf Fortress is another beast β very special fantasy game for those, who understand. You can control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated, persistent world. With rollApp you now can do that online from almost any device.
We continue working to make more wishes come true. Hope you will help us keep new ideas coming and let us know what you need the most.
We continue to build our collection of educational apps. If you are looking for tools to help you get started with programing β we have great apps for learing programming, which you can use on any device online. Today we'll have a closer look at BASIC-256 and KTurtle.
BASIC-256 is a great app which will help anyone to understand the basics of computer programming. BASIC-256 has a built-in graphics mode which lets you draw graphs in minutes and can also help with mathematics assignments. This would be especially interesting to middle and high-school students.
KTurtle is a great tool for the youngest programmers that makes learning to define algorithms as easy as possible. One of the best things about KTurtle is that it allows to translate programs into plain English (or another natural language for that matter). This is one of the many ways KTurtle tries to make learning to programming more simple. Other features to aid in learning programming include intuitive syntax highlighting, simple error messages, integrated canvas to make drawings on, integrated help function, slow-motion or step execution, and more.
We also have powerful tools for professional developers available via the rollApp platform on any device. Check them out too!
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We have diverse collection of the applications available on our online platform, including any apps for educations. Today we want to tell you about applications that can help you in studying chemistry.
Simple and effective gElemental is a periodic table viewer that provides detailed information on the chemical elements. It offers a broad, up-to-date data set, thematic coloring and a sortable list view.
Another app is Cain: it allows to perform simulations of chemical reactions and can spawn multiple simulation processes. The reactions may have mass-action kinetic laws or arbitrary propensity functions. Once you have run a simulation to generate trajectories (possible realizations of the system) you can visualize the results by plotting the species populations or reactions counts.
Kalzium is an all-around chemistry application. Kalzium includes a Periodic Table of Elements, chemical reference, chemical equation solver, and 3D molecule viewer. With the help of rollApp you can launch it from any device online!
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Explore the sky onlineΒ with Stellarium on rollApp
For thousands of years people have been looking up at the stars at night. The invention of the telescope was a major step in the study of our universe. Today, technology has leaped forward and we can look at the stars, learn the constellations and galaxies with a computer. Stellarium on rollApp allows to explore the skies on any device β tablet, Chromebook, or smartphone online.
Stellarium is a planetarium for your device. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
This application is a great lense to learn about the Universe with default catalogue of over 600,000 stars, asterisms and illustrations of the constellations, realistic Milky Way, very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset, planets and their satellites and much more!
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