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Google Gears comes to Gmail
Yea, verily, Google brought Gears to Gmail today, meaning you can (finally) go through downloaded emails without a handy internet connection. There are caveats: spellcheck won't work, can't add attachments, pretty much anything that would require a connection won't be there. Reading, responding, starring and labeling do work, however, which is very cool. But hey, don't take my word for it. See the pretty movie Google made to explain it all below.
UPDATE: As pointed out in the comments, this is US and UK only (for now). Also, I should point out that you'll find the feature in Gmail labs -- it isn't yet part of the standard feature set. Google states users should see this by the end of the week.
Via TechCrunch
UPDATE: As pointed out in the comments, this is US and UK only (for now). Also, I should point out that you'll find the feature in Gmail labs -- it isn't yet part of the standard feature set. Google states users should see this by the end of the week.
Via TechCrunch
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)
CascadeHush said 9:58PM on 1-27-2009
Just so you know, it's UK and USA only. So the other 95% of us don't get excited just yet.
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Matias Korhonen said 2:09AM on 1-28-2009
ALso, the 5% of us not using Windows have no reason to get excited...
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Raph said 5:00AM on 1-28-2009
http://gears.google.com/
"Gears is available for Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac (Firefox, Safari), Linux and Android."
Matias Korhonen said 8:13AM on 1-28-2009
32-bit only, so not for me...
zerock said 7:03AM on 1-28-2009
this is great
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Drew Green said 7:25AM on 1-28-2009
Pretty cool. I don't know when I would need to use Gmail without internet though, but this is one more step to having Google be a viable replacement for Outlook.
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samuel said 10:01PM on 1-28-2009
good looking ad
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Geoffrey said 2:08AM on 1-29-2009
Works here in Australia 29-01
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master811 said 4:46AM on 1-29-2009
I'll stick to using Gmail over IMAP, works fine for me.
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James said 11:08PM on 1-30-2009
Wait, so does this work in WinMo?
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