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Add Your Current Location to Gmail Signatures Automatically

11 feb 2009

Gmail users who travel frequently will simply love this. You can now instruct Google email to automatically add your current geographic location in all your outgoing email messages so that recipients get to know where you are at the moment.

Read Your Google Reader Subscriptions Offline with RSS Bandit

03 nov 2008

Are you looking for a desktop client to manage your RSS feed subscriptions inside Google Reader ? Look no further than RSS Bandit.

Google Gears and WordPress 2.6 Is Not About Offline Blogging

29 may 2008

The new release of WordPress (version 2.6) is due in August 2008 and is compatible with Google Gears. *this refers to self hosted WordPress software, not the wordpress.com blogging platform.

New Google Docs Features – Offline Editing, YouTube Video Embeds

31 mar 2008

Google add two new features in Google Docs today – offline support and video embeds – you can insert YouTube videos in Google Docs or upload video clips from the hard drive.

Google Gears Enabled Sites That Work Even When You Go Offline

06 dec 2007

Ready to go offline ? Here are some popular web applications that will work in offline mode using Google Gears. Unfortunately, the list does not include Gmail, Google Calendar or Google Docs.

Zoho Office Goes Completely Offline with Google Gears

25 nov 2007

Online Office like Google Docs or Zoho Office have become popular alternatives to desktop based Microsoft Office for two reasons – they work inside the web browser without requiring any installation and second, you don’t have to buy any software licenses – they are all free for personal use. But then they require an Internet connection.