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- 4fingers, on 10/22/2007, -6/+218This is Digg, who is ever off-line?
- schestowitz, on 10/17/2007, -11/+101Wouldn't that beat the purpose of GMail, which is Web-based, portable, platform-neutral, and off-line-enabled (using Gears and Firefox 3.0, for example)?
- razei, on 10/10/2007, -6/+85woops, wrong category
- wynd, on 10/10/2007, -2/+61I'd rather have IMAP support.
- KevenM, on 10/23/2007, -0/+40No, it would ADD to the features of GMail. It would not take anything away or beat any other purposes.
- alpine75, on 10/10/2007, -5/+41Hindustan Times...where I get all the latest tech rumors!
- jbohlinger, on 10/10/2007, -7/+34/cries with joy
- PhoenixPath, on 10/10/2007, -0/+25"more safer"
Yeah, let's talk about "n00bs" after you graduate Elementary School. - fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -6/+29Why? Aren't there already a crapload of offline mail clients you could use?
- JeffD, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20You're cheking email while driving?
- dilbertmouse, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16"Actually, Gmail doesn't use folders. To help you organize your mail more effectively, Gmail uses labels instead." -- Gmail Help (search for 'folders') [ https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10708 ]
You can use labels and think of them as folders, but really they're better. Using folders, one email belongs in one folder. But with labels, one email can be in many 'folders', thus making things way easier to categorize. Not to mention that labels can be used to mark mail in your inbox, sent items, trash, or wherever they might be hiding. - Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Acutal link: http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=37957dea-7b41-465f-96eb-5a303d142fc6
- chubbymidget, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13What's "Offline"?
- spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Why not?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ - realgoat21, on 10/10/2007, -5/+16....the hindustan times?
...really??? - Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Yes, I will gladly bury your spam -- no need to ask twice.
Wait, what were you asking again? - jer2eydevil88, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Thats what a blackberry is for
- jeremymccurdy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Thunderbird does.
- tybris, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Is the wheel shinier this time?
- darkNiGHTS, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10When I'm driving?
- Joners, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Possible client to sync the 'Gphone'?
- Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Tech Crunch is not a "major news paper site" -- it's a blog. By linking to *it*, rather than the actual Hindustan Times site (which *is* a major newspaper), this submisison is the very definition of blogspam.
- PhairOh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Why do you need folders? Labels work really well for me.
- brasso, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Nope, I can’t imagine that Google will make you choose between web access and "gmail client" access.
So if you don’t like it, then don’t use it and you won’t notice any difference. - woogley, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I've been using Outlook for quite a while and it works great with GMail. Outlook/Thunderbird and GMail are perfect match. No matter what you do on the client side, GMail has the email archived on the server just in case you need it (GMail heavily pushes "not deleting" emails anyway)
I'm not sure I would use an offline GMail client, seeing as Outlook is syncing many different email accounts.. but the idea is interesting. One step closer to an online desktop maybe - lavchan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Do you know any that support labels as well as the Gmail site does? Serious question.
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Thunderbird: Tools->Account Settings->Add Account->GMAIL!!!
It's built in, you don't even need to know what the server addresses are! Even a 5 year old could probably get GMail to work in Thunderbird. And of course there are instructions for all other mail clients. - bjtitus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Mail.app is NOT a good alternative for having a full featured offline Gmail app. Because Gmail doesn't have IMAP support, you can't manage labels or folders with Mail which will seamlessly connect to the web counterpart.
- rootstyle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7What part about that isn't spam? If it was about a male enhancer instead of an unrelated digg article it would be painfully obvious even to you:
'Please CHECK OUT my penis enlarger cream, but you don't have to buy it... The results will speak for themselves!' - Optimaximal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Web 2.0 doesn't just cover the 'look' of websites. It covers more the definition of how the websites function...
Web 1.0 can be classified as a website that is fairly static in its content - one defined set of users update it and there is little outside interaction from users. A Web 2.0 site is geared towards social interaction and dynamic content generation through user interaction. The whole social interaction movement just tended to come about at a time when AJAX and CSS became favourable, meaning Web 2.0 is just associated with nice looking bubbly Mac OSX-like websites. - lcarsdeveloper, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7It might be useful for people with notebooks who want to quickly download their emails when they're in a hotspot, and then reply to them on the train or something, then send when they hit the next hotspot. But then, what's wrong with using Thunderbird instead? I don't really see the point of them spending time and money developing a mail client when there are already so many good ones out there. They should just contribute to Thunderbird, maybe add some more GMail support to it (like labels, which work really well on gmail but are lost when I import via POP)
- astrotrain, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Offline GMail Clinet = Thunderbird with WebMail + GMail addon... nuff said (its all free and works 100%)
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I hear they are developing and offline life too for their users.
- GMorgan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Web 3.0 means the same as Web 2.0. It's all pretty meaningless.
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I suppose if GMail is all you use, but I have several mail accounts across multiple providers, so Thunderbird works for me. It's fast and doesn't use much memory, plus some of the plugins are really useful. If they do release an offline GMail client, there's a 99.99% chance that I'll download it, try it out for 10 minutes and then realise that it's completely useless to me.
- secleinteer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Uhh, isn't offline access an integral part of every POP3 client? Just use KMail, Thunderbird, Evolution, Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Apple Mail, or one of the other million clients out there, and you have offline mail access.
- thatsmyaibo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Hell even my Palm does. Gmail is POP and I would be surprised if you could find a client that didn't support it.
- vemerge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Is that what you'll tell the police when you run over a three year old girl? I was checking to see if there was any new iPhone news, so, it can't possibly be my fault!
- crushfan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5Sweet, a new term that defines nothing. It's just a polished way to say, "a new web site" .
- Our recently released Web 2.0 application...
- OMG, I THINK I JUST CAME!!11 - richardiscool, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Ah yes, The Hindustan Times - always first with the big tech news.
- knetworx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"metamorph's"...... Are you kidding me? Ahh....where to begin.......oh yes -- kindergarten!
First off, the word you were looking for was "metaphors". Second, you took an apostrophe out of a contraction. Finally, you used an apostrophe to make something plural. You fail at life. - lieutenantmudd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Also, it was reported in the Hindustan Times. Internet access is not as ubiquitous in the world as it is in America and Europe. Offline email is a major feature when you only sign on once or twice a day.
- Evacide, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I don't get to use CustomizeGoogle with Firefox 3 though :( And lots of other extensions don't work either. I'll wait.
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'm still waiting for Web 2.0. The "look" of the web has changed many many times in the last 10 years. There was the plain text phase, then image maps, rollovers, flash based websites, and now the rounded edges with reflections and AJAX phase. Not enough of the Internet has changed for me to consider this Web 2.0, why didn't the version number increment with all the other changes over the last 10 years? If new technology, designs and fads are all that warrant a new version of the internet, then we should be up to Web 10.0 by now. Buzzwords like Web 2.0 are for programmers who want both extra money and the chance to get paid to play with new toys at work. Trust me, I used to be one.
- maybeway36, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I would like a Google Calendar client to run in my system tray and notify me about stuff.
- amirjpl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3are they gonna use Adobe Air?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+9I already have an offline gMail client, it's called Mail.app
Are people too stupid to configure their Mail clients or something? Perhaps Google should just update their help system. I was able to follow the directions fine. This seams like a major waste of their resources to me. - rinks, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4It's TechCrunch, you idiot. It's one of the leading reporters on new tech, not some moron in his basement.
By that rationale, nothing by Boing Boing, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, or Engadet would make it on this site. - Harri448, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I'm using those right now. Change the maxversion in the.rdf file.
- vemerge, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Do you even know what blogspam is? Just because the news is from a blog (and one of the biggest on the internet at that), does not make it blogspam.
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