Posts Tagged with ‘google-gears’

I've made no secret of my unabashed enthusiasm for password manager PassPack. Of all the apps I've tried and reviewed, PassPack is probably the one that gets used most throughout the day, simply because of the enormous number of accounts I need to wrangle as part of this job.
One problem that I've had frequently, however, is the lack of either an offline or mobile version. There's been many a time when I'm sitting at a soccer game or at [...]

Yahoo is pulling out all the stops in its quest to either prove it can compete with the big boys like Google or at least convince Microsoft that they are worth more than the initial bid before turning themselves in for their Micro-Borgification.
Their latest move appears to be a release (or possible resurrection) of a long-rumored framework somewhat similar to Google Gears. Right on the heels of their official external launch of Fire Eagle comes Yahoo BrowserPlus, At the present [...]

Anyone who waded into the comment section of my DimDim review noted a mini-debate began about my feelings about the service. Mainly, why I felt that its current lack of support for Mac and Linux users was a deal-breaker.
Web 2.0 has been all about people and web apps. Conversation and creating accessible apps for sharing and conversing and socializing. so why is it important that everything be non-platform specific?
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster claims that, if you back out purchases [...]

Just call me out of touch, but I just don't get the idea behind moving Google Apps offline. You can give me talking points about competing with Microsoft and unified functionality all you want, but in the long run, what does it do other than create a circle that seems nothing more than keeping developers in jobs.
The two hallmarks of Web 2.0 have been making the web social and removing the reliance on the desktop. Google Apps and [...]

Zoho, a company responsible for the creation of one of the finest Web-based software suites in existence, today unveiled a much-anticipated update to its word processor.
While a previous iteration of the utility enabled the user the option to read documents while not connected to a broadband service, courtesy of Google’s Gears plug-in, Zoho’s new release of Writer allows for total offline access.
That means reading and editing is now possible with the new Zoho-plus-Google Gears combo. Which is something [...]

So, you like Google Gears, do you? You like firing up that browser, logging into a service/Web app (the current list of GG-compatible sites is short, but generally is a good group nonetheless), syncing up with the latest info – be it in the form of RSS feeds or to-do lists or whathaveyou - and enjoy the luxury of a small little button conveniently placed atop your browser window that, when pressed, allows you to continue reading and making edits [...]

I trek over to Slate.com most evenings, where usually there is published a headline or two I find interesting enough to click through to. Scarce, however, are there pieces to do with the goings on in the technology world. Stuff about various Washingtonians and watchers of those Washingtonians crops up on the site with great frequency, and things generally classifiable as “miscellaneous” (not by Slate, but by the average reader) tend to take up most of the front page’s [...]

Google's made many headlines lately, but today one particular announcement by the company shadowing almost all others. We say almost, because the biggest elephant in the room remains the Google-DoubleClick deal. $3.1bn is one card that’s really very difficult to trump.
On to the latest news. It turns out Google’s been hard at work trying to construct a bridge between online and offline use of applications that as of now can only be accessed with Internet connections, and come out from [...]