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Zoho Writer adds offline features

Online office suites seem to be all the rage these days. ThinkFree, Zoho, and Google all have word processing and spreadsheet applications that you can access from any computer with an internet connected web browser. But what do you do when you're taking your laptop on a plane or train where there's no Wi-Fi signal?

Zoho has just announced the ability to access Zoho Writer documents offline.



The funny thing is that Zoho has enabled offline reading using Google Gears. Google, on the other hand still doesn't haven an offline mode for its Docs & Spreadsheets office suite.

For now, you can read Zoho documents offline, but you can't write them. Zoho plans to add full read/write/synchronization capabilities within the next few weeks.

[via Read/WriteWeb]
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