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While I'm away..."Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students"

While I'm away..."Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students"Gears and DocsThe Gears concept is good - I use it for Gmail on a laptop. But Docs [word processor and spreadsheet] are such shadows of their MS and OO competitors as to be all but useless.I've only worked briefly...

Tags: OpenOffice, Google Gears, Docs, Microsoft Office, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-14

While I'm away..."Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students"

Since I've been using the heck out of Google Gears to access my offline documents/email while I'm on vacation and largely Internet-less (and yes, it is terrible, but at least the sunsets are nice here), here's a repost of an article about Google Gears: Every day, I...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Microsoft Office, Internet, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Google Gears 0.5 (Windows)

Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser: Let web applications interact naturally with your desktop. Store data locally in a fully-searchable database. Run JavaScript in the background to improve performance.

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Web Application, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing

Software downloads 2009-04-16

Outlook, look out - Gmail goes offline

It's easy to downplay Gmail as an enterprise email solution -- it's only available as webmail, and if the internet goes down, so does your email. When Google Gears was launched, people began looking forward to the day when Gmail would become an offline application....

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, Google Gears, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students

Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for studentsWow. Google sure is smarter than Microsoft.What can I say, I was bored.Why it won't work today but can be fixedWhy it does not work today:1) Math. It's everywhere. Especially in higher education. No equation editor, no go.2) Note taking. Microsoft Office...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Tablets, OpenOffice, Live Mesh, Google Inc., Google Gears, operating system, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2009-01-26

Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students

Every day, I look for ways to make the OS less relevant and make kids' work accessible to them anytime, anywhere. I can't do this just yet for my secretaries and some serious power users. They rely at least on the full feature set or a significant subset...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Microsoft Office, Internet, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-26

Advanced settings (Image Gallery: Almost every screen of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device)

Advanced settings (Image Gallery: Almost every screen of the T-Mobile G1 Google Android device)Google Gears on AndroidYou wrote:"Google Gears is supported in the web browser, but I still haven't figured out how to make this work or exactly what is provides."Gears is a browser-enhancing plug-in that does things like caching...

Tags: Web browsers, T-Mobile G1, T-Mobile G1 Google Android device, T-Mobile G1 Google Android, T-Mobile, Advanced Settings, Google Gears, Image Gallery

Discussion threads 2008-10-16

Google Gears now inside Android's "Chrome Lite"

Android 1.0 includes a hidden feature for Ajax web developers: the Google Gears plug-in. Because it's pre-installed, web pages displayed in Android's WebKit-based "Chrome Lite" browser can take advantage of Gears features out of the box, including local storage and desktop shortcuts. by Ed Burnette

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Web Browser, Android 1.0, Web Browsers, Internet, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Google releases Gears for Safari

According to their Mac blog, Google has released a version of Google Gears for Safari. This means that you can now access all the Gears-enabled sites (such as Zoho office, WordPress, the new YouTube uploader and Google Docs offline) in Safari. Gears allows you to: ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Apple Safari, Scripting Languages, Desktops, Blogging, Cloud Computing, Performance Management, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Internet, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Google bets future on improving Client, Connectivity, and Cloud

On Wednesday morning, Vick Gundotra, Engineering VP at Google opened the Google I/O developer's conference in San Francisco. I jotted down a few (ok, a lot of) notes for this and other sessions that I'd like to share with you. This is not quite a transcript, but rather a paraphrasing...

Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Mobile, Google OpenSocial, Web Browser, Google Web Toolkit, Connectivity, Client, App Engine, AJAX, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Open Source, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Marketing, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-05-29

More information on Yahoo's BrowserPlus

There have been small bits of information trickling out about Yahoo's BrowserPlus, but today in a blog posting on the Yahoo Developer Network we got some more information about what Yahoo's planning and it's a good development for RIAs. In their own words, Yahoo is building a platform to extend...

Tags: Web, Google Gears, Yahoo! Inc., Web Browser, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Google's mission: Extend the browser

Google Gears launched a year ago and the search giant is ditching its moniker to reinforce that Gears is an open source project. So far so good, MySpace has used Gears to launch search and sort mail messages. The overall theme: Google is trying to extend the browser. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Google Earth, Web Browser, MySpace, Pricing Detail, Web Browsers, Pricing, Channel Management, Marketing Research, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Google launches offline calendar?

One of my observant readers noticed today that his "settings" page in Google Calendar and mine too shows a new tab for "Offline". It then prompts you to install Google Gears to enable the feature. I already had Gears, but it still...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-03-14

Big day for mobile rich Internet applications

Two pretty big announcements in the "mobile RIA" space that don't have much to do with each other, but show that the mobile side of the RIA fence is starting to get just as much attention as the desktop and browser sides. The first announcement is that Google Gears will...

Tags: Mobile Version, Google Gears, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, Internet Application, Announcement, Mobile Announcement, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Google releases Gears for mobile devices

Google Gears is a plugin that you can download for your browser if you use Internet Explorer or Firefox that lets you use and interact with compatible websites while you are offline. It is a great tool that developers can make use of -- however it's still in it's...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Mobile, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-03-04

Google Gears next steps closer to Prism, Adobe AIR

Google Gears next steps closer to Prism, Adobe AIRprism bookmarklet as comparisonthanks for the reference to Dion Almaer's work. it's interesting to me because not long ago, i tossed together an experimental mozilla prism bookmarklet to generate desktop webapps on--the-fly (http://prismspectrum.com/bookmarklet). i do believe adobe air and similar projects...

Tags: XML, PRISM, Google Gears, Mozilla Corp., prism, wrapper, Google Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe AIR

Discussion threads 2007-12-20

Google Gears next steps closer to Prism, Adobe AIR

Dion Almaer has a post over on his blog about what some of the future Google Gears APIs might look like. This one specifically is about creating desktop shortcuts. It's important to note that this is very, very early so this API is indicative of where Google Gears is going...

Tags: Desktop, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Web, Google Gears, Adobe AIR, Web Browser, Prism, Dion Almaer, Dion, Web Browsers, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-12-20

Zoho Writer opens up read AND write offline functionality

Zoho announced today that it's making read and write functionality in Zoho Writer available offline using Google Gears. Most of the tech commentary focuses on the office aspect of this, which is great because Zoho is really pushing the boundary of what online office applications mean. As Read/WriteWeb notes, this...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Gears, Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., Zoho Writer, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-11-26

Microsoft Sync for offline and P2P applications (it isn't Google Gears)

Microsoft Sync for offline and P2P applications (it isn't Google Gears)Of course the biggest difference being that MS Sync will ONLY work on MSWindows. If MS can get some to use this to sync web applications, then they increase lock-in, when they desperately need.So?[i]Of course the biggest difference being that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Peer to peer (P2P), Desktops, P2P, Microsoft Corp., Google Gears, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-05

Microsoft delivers first test build of its online-offline sync platform

Microsoft delivers first test build of its online-offline sync platformLooks like MS is moving quickly to copy Google Gears.Offline is coming to web applications!! But, offline features will also increase the performance while connected, as there will be a local cache available.It sounds more like ConduitApparently proprietary software companies are...

Tags: Groupware, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., online-offline, Microsoft Delivers, first test, Google Gears, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-11-05