Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, E-mail, Google
GeeMail desktop client for Gmail provides offline access
by Brad Linder Feb 19th 2009 at 11:00AM
But GeeMail also supports offline Gmail access. In other words, you can compose messages while you're away from an internet connection. When you go online again, GeeMail will send them. Google also provides limited offline support to users who install Google Gears.
GeeMail lacks a search box, which is a bit limiting. But what it does provide is super-fast access to your Gmail inxbox.
[via CNet]
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, ...
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maf teechr said 11:32AM on 2-19-2009
(Google Gears + Gmail Application Shortcut) > Any standalone email application
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blogward said 3:23PM on 2-19-2009
First time I tried to reply to an email it came up 'unknown'. Uninstalled.
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supernova_hq said 4:21PM on 2-19-2009
And what exactly does this offer that I can't do with IMAP/SMTP?
The only thing my email client can't get off of my gmail account is my contact list, and that doesn't change a whole lot.
This is just another person writing a useless limited application to do something with less functionality than dozens of other programs that people already use!
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Abscissa said 5:51PM on 2-19-2009
"with less functionality"
And a colossally worse interface.
Seriously, I just don't get this AIR garbage. Why would anyone want their desktop software to look and feel like a web app or a flash app when web/flash apps are already nothing more than mediocre hacks designed to emulate real software.
Abscissa said 5:51PM on 2-19-2009
Now this is just an absolutely worthless idea. Why would I ever want this AIR garbage when I can just continue using my REAL desktop email client? You know, one that not only handles offline gmail just fine, but actually has a *good* interface.
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Generic said 9:35AM on 2-20-2009
Nothing works for me better than Google Gears + Chrome + Gmail.
All other email clients try to give me a user experience that is different than Gmail and fail to exceed it because there is a limited scope of visionaries when it comes to email interaction designers.
The only thing that Gmail lacks is folders but Gmail users are more or less comfortable with labels which is available as tags in Thunderbird but doesn't synchronize with Gamil labels. Even though Thunderbird has a trick up its sleeve to use labels, it is still not the same as Gmail's approach.
To wrap it up:
No email client substitutes Gmail's web interface satisfyingly.
Gmail doesn't provide some features in standard email clients.
Two separate approaches to email boxes tied to one umbilical cord
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William Slater said 2:09PM on 2-21-2009
Mac users try Mailplane for desktop gmail access. It does require connectivity, but its a great way to have gmail running without having to leave a browser open.
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