Archives Tag: Google Gears
Sharing Your Location using Your Signature
The Gmail blog recently announced there is a blend of technology available that will let you share your current location in your signature while sending out email. Here is how you can enable it. Gmail -> Settings -> Labs ->
Full StoryGoogle Calendar Goes Offline
Just as I predicted last week, Google Calendar now can offer offline access. Gmail offered offline and Calendar had follow suit. But note, offline access is only being offered to Google Apps users right now. So a typical user, such as myself using good ole’ Google Calendar non-Google Apps, will not be able to see [...]
Full StoryGoogle Gears for Safari [Beta]
Google has announced the beta launch of Google Gears for Safari. Up until now, Google Gears has only been for Firefox. Direct download: http://dl.google.com/gears/current/gears-osx-opt.dmg If you missed the update earlier, Google Gears has already been directly integrated into WordPress.org and WordPress.com blogs. In other news, Google Gears turned one year old just three months ago. [...]
Full StoryWordPress.com Shifts into High Gear
Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg made the announcement today that WordPress.com now has the ability to offer Google Gears integration, making the WordPress.com experience notably better. Here is a short excerpt from Matt’s post about the new integration. On WordPress.com it is used to store all images and other web page components from the admin area to [...]
Full StoryHappy Birthday Google Gears!
“Today, MySpace is launching enhanced functionality for MySpace mail using Gears. They are using the original Gears Database API with Full Text Search to enable fast and easy search and sort capabilities. The latest build of WordPress also integrates Gears, to improve performance, and to let users manage their blogs offline. And as many of [...]
Full StoryPresentations and Spreadsheets Go Offline
Last week, the Google Docs team announced that Google Docs Presentations and Google Docs Spreadsheets will be available offline. Great feature? You bet! This feature is specifically targeted at a few types of people, I feel. The people that travel a lot and don’t yet have the Verizon or Sprint mobile Wi-Fi cards and the [...]
Full StoryJavascript Hackers Invited to Hackathon at Google
Yesterday, Google announced the 2008 Hackathon to be held at their headquarters in Mountain View, CA. As far as I can tell, it’s not a contest, but just a time to get together. “The event is open to anyone in the community that wants to learn about some Google API’s, do some coding, or ask [...]
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