Gmail is closing the gap on traditional email services by offering users access to their inboxes while offline. The new Labs feature uses Google Gears to cache a copy of the user's inbox on their PC.

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Web-based email is great because you can check it from any computer, but there's one little catch: it's inherently limited by your internet connection.

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Make no mistake. The cute comic book and the touchy-feely talk about user experience is little more than a coat of paint on top of a monumental hatred of Microsoft.

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Gears, Google's project to make Web browsers a better foundation for elaborate online applications, now supports Firefox 3, the company plans to announce soon.

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We know that many of you have been waiting for offline access to Google Docs, and I'm happy to tell you we'll be rolling it out over the next few weeks, starting today with a small percentage of users.

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But alas, if only it were a reality that every site was Gears enabled -- the internet faster and available anywhere. You'd need every site to implement Gears -- GearsMonkey to the rescue!

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A report from India's Hindustan Times indicates that Google is prepping an offline version of Gmail.

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How do you like that? Zoho using their biggest competitor's technology for themselves.

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If GearPad is too minimalistic for you, try Moxie.

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Interesting. It appears that Google Gears and Firefox 3 are joining forces. Mozilla and Google are collaborating on an effort to make web applications work offline.

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In a world of people obsessed by turning the tiniest idea into something profitable, Dr Richard Hipp's best-known software stands out for two reasons - he actively disclaims copyright in it; and at a time when multi-megabyte installations are booming, he has a self-imposed limit  …

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Young companies are like young people—arrogant, brash, bold and swashbuckling, like they'll live forever. Youth mentality defines Google, as it did Microsoft a computing generation ago.

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They must love Google as much as I do. First, it was adding support for Google Calendar. Now, they are using Google Gears to let you work offline!

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Application Future State - Google Gears

I wrote this post on my blog in Mar. 2006. Considering the release of Google Gears, I thought it might be a good chance to revisit the accuracy of the post.

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Google Reader users can download the latest 2000 items from Google Reader to their browsers to read when they don't have internet access, using Google Gears.

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Google Inc. said on Wednesday it was building Web software that runs online and off to let users work remotely on planes, trains, slow dial-up connections or even the most remote locations in the world.

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