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First Google Gears app: Offline Google Reader
by Jason Clarke May 30th 2007 at 11:59PM
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Well, that was fast. Google Gears hasn't even been announced yet, and already Google Reader users can install it and wallow in the splendor that is offline reading. Yep, Google Reader now offers the ability to download the 2000 most recent unread posts, so that you can read them when not connected to the internet.
The link shows up as a single innocuous red word, "offline", at the top right of your Google Reader screen. Clicking on it takes you to a page where you are invited to install the beta of Google Gears. So far we've only tested it on a Mac with BonEcho (a Mac-specific version of Firefox), and it works great. Since Google Gears is going to be available for all major platforms, we can assume this will work just as well on Windows.
Now the wait for what we're drooling after: Offline Gmail. Please, Google? Pretty-please?!
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Paul said 2:42AM on 5-31-2007
I'd prefer if Google would hurry up and come out with Gmail pushmail for cellphones.
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Thomas said 6:45AM on 5-31-2007
Every time Google Gears does it's think with Google Reader, I get a connection error and then another error. It's just not working like it should here.
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DanGarion said 12:45AM on 6-04-2007
So what exactly is the point of this? Most people have always on connections, so why is this even useful to the normal public?
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