Google Gears: Take Your Apps Offline
Google has released a free, fully open source technology in order to help not just Google applications, but all Web applications. The technology takes advantage of the offline mode built into most modern browsers. It lets you perform the tasks you would normally do online, while being away from an internet connection. For starters, the Google Reader feed reader is available with Gears enabled offline capabilities. In the future Google hopes to bring this technology to its other Office-like apps, including Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, and even GMail. Imagine being able to reply to all of your built up emails while on a plane, and have them be sent once you connect to the internet again. That alone makes us tingle with joy.
Tingle with a joy, BGR you silly gooses.
I for one welcome our new google overlords.
ummm you mean like outlook has been able to do fer like er ummm 10 years..way to go google, you just invented a desktop app..congrats. when does the bubble burst again so they can go away?
Uh.. as I recall Windows charges for there applications and office suites… Google is not. Nor are other open source projects like openoffice.org. Freeware is the best ware.