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Remember Google Gears? (previous mentions) As a way to run web applications when not connected it sure seemed like just the ticket. Well, don’t get too attached — Google will be dropping support for it. And yeah… that about sums it up. Hello HTML5. If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on At last, something a lot of Gmail users have been asking for has been delivered: Offline Gmail. It’ll be released over the next few days as a Gmail Labs offering and will be powered by Google Gears. Once you have it, you’ll be able to work on your email – still in your browser As many bloggers are already aware, WordPress released version 2.6 earlier this week. One of the big new features is Post Revisions: With the power of modern computers, it’s silly that we still use save and editing metaphors from the time when the most common method of storage was floppy disks. WordPress has always respected I think just about every tech blogger has, at some point, chided Google for letting competitors (such as Zoho) beat them to offline document access and editing. For instance, when I mentioned Zoho Writer offline access back in November I harped a bit… Today, the Google Docs blog announced “Bringing the Cloud With You.” This Three months ago, the Zoho folks announced an offline mode for Zoho Writer. While nifty and all, it was essentially read-only and not quite as useful as I might’ve hoped. You could sync your Zoho docs offline for access, but not change anything. (Zoho Show would benefit greatly from this!) They raised the bar |
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