Google Apps users may be noticing an "Offline (beta)" link in the upper-right corner of their Google Calendars. That's right—Google's rolling out offline browser access to appointments, and, for once, Apps users get first dibs. If you see the offline link in red, hit it and, if you've enabled ...

I use Thunderbird (current mail client du jour - pine, Evolution, Thunderbird, with maybe a smattering of Pegasus Mail in there for a short span of time) daily. Though I’m tiring of it for my great amounts of personal mail, and have been using GMail, because I can read it on the Web, via Thund...

Adding offline support for Google services turned out to be a difficult task: even if Gears-enabled versions of Google Calendar and Gmail have been tested for more than a year, offline Gmail will be available starting from today in Gmail Labs. What's the point of creating an offline version of Gmail...

Over the next few days Google will roll out the Gmail offline feature. Using Google Gears, Gmail will continuously keep a cache of e-mail messages stored locally on your computer so that when you go offline, you still get access to it. The video below shows how it works. As is suggested all of the f...

At last, something a lot of Gmail users have been asking for has been delivered: Offline Gmail . It’ll be released over the next few days as a Gmail Labs offering and will be powered by Google Gears. Once you have it, you’ll be able to work on your email – still in your browser – regardless ...

One of Gmail’s most requested features – offline support – is now available in testing. In other words, you can now use Gmail without an Internet connection, just like you can with desktop mail clients like Outlook. The offline support is made possible by Google Gears, which you’ll need to d...

Like President Barack Obama said, it’s about getting up and dusting ourselves off. He also mentioned risk taking, and doers, and creativity. In software publishing, as much as anywhere, the web continues to change the business landscape. Retail markets go down in a double-whammy of technolog...

Launched in December 2000, Google Toolbar started as a way to add features that were missing from Internet Explorer. Users had to visit Google's homepage to perform a search and the toolbar improved the experience by adding a search box to the browser. In the next versions, the toolbar added query s...

Nach langem Hin und Her bin ich mit meinen RSS-Feeds auf den Google-Reader umgestiegen. Lange verwendete ich Omea Reader, allerdings hatte ich immer das Problem, dass ich zwei Rechner verwende und immer zwischen beiden synchronisieren musste. Diese Synchronisation war lästig und sorgte immer wieder...

A very interesting and informative talk dealing with the new types of attacks that affect web 2.0 applications and RIA in particular. The session was divided in 2 parts, the first about AJAX and the last about Rich Internet Applications. The slides of this talk are available on slideshare and are im...