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- Wilson, on 10/11/2007, -0/+54Haha. The Firefox extension description is "These are the gears that power the tubes!"
- robche, on 10/11/2007, -0/+39Google Reader is now officially my number 1 news reader
- vuke69, on 10/11/2007, -1/+29@vhold
Gears IS cross platform (I just installed on linux) - grogan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+27Install this, then go to Google Reader - it's already working with it!
- uptown, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18I used to think that Google was the government in disguise .... but they come out with way too much cool stuff for it to be the work of the government.
- JrGhoull, on 10/11/2007, -7/+22i still think that one day google is gonna look at everything that they've made, realize that they basically have all the pieces of an OS, do the final details, and release it. i understand that there would still be alot of work involved...but i think virtually every feature in an OS, google will eventually release in the form of one of their own special programs and that it's only a matter of time before they have all the pieces...i think that its off line software like this that is indication that this will happen.
- munksaway, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13here is a video of Google's engineering director talking about Gears:
http://tinyurl.com/2rrllx - LearningNerd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14"Store and serve application resources locally", "Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database", "Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness"... I was just wondering if something like this existed, so yay, question answered! It looks useful, to say the least! Now if only I knew how to use it.
- benlundquist, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Get your RSS feeds cooking kiddies, we're hitting the road.
- gamebittk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13This is really cool. Web developers now have the capability and the resources to develop full offline applications. No need to compile. Only a matter of time before these and Flash apps start creeping up onto our desktops.
- HUKI365, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11Unfortunately as good as Google stuff is it will take a while for this stuff to truly transfer to desktops. Gmail/GCalendar is good on the web, but there a bunch of things they need to do before they can rival other popular offline mail clients. Mainly because people EXPECT offline things to do more than online.
- BlackNute, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Google got hand in the next big thing... yet again
- eunichs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Doesnt support gmail as yet. Only Google reader. See google code for details.
- danielslomka, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9I've been waiting for something like this. I
- Rhino2, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11
that's what I think. All those "Trillions" of dollars going to Iraq? ***** no, it's all going to google developers.
Once they have all our lives interconnected into the google-net they'll be able to use that power to monitor us.
That is step one. Step three involves some Matrix like device, sucking our brain waves for battery juice.
Step 2 involes porn. Lots of porn. The internet (even if it'll turn into a Matrix like device to enslave man kind) always... ALWAYS involves massive amounts of pron. I don't know why. that's just the way it is.
Mmmm snorg girls. - burkay, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9there is a huge difference between making software and making operating systems.
you don't just make many programs, pack them together and publish it as an operating system.
I can't even summarize the differences. - spartyms2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Any chance that this will function with Gmail and/or Gcal? Those are the two big aps that I think would really benefit from being able to view offline.
- netkid91, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Now this could really finish the migration of desktop applications to web apps. If we can access Google Docs & Spreadsheets in an offline mode, sync our changes when we have a working connection again, most of the world would be good. This is even better news for GMail and Google Calendar, especially with the prevalence of Google Apps for Domains, business users could read email on the road.
- spiff21, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Can we stop numbering the web "versions" yet?
- Lemon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Seems like Google Reader is more like a proof of concept for this, coz it's kinda useless: all inline content won't load off line (images, youtube etc) and a lot of feeds publish summary's rather than the complete posts.
It's extremely bloody cool though. And it seems to synchronise really fast too.
Bring on Gmail and Docs. - markdr123, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Just wait, it'll come.
- etnu, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9While google is certainly chock full of engineering goodies, it most certainly does not have "all the pieces of an OS". Learn what actually makes up an operating system.
- arunforce, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5But hey! We can beta test it for 8 years. :P
- holtonma, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4this is awesome. I can't wait to write an app that works with this... might need to take some days off work!
- webcrumb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4It's a "look over there!" tactic.
GEARS!
(facial recognition in image search) - DardanAeneas, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4This is big. Web Apps one huge weakness is that they are totally gone if you lose internet connectivity. What company is really going to use them if an internet outage shuts them and the business down? This changes everything.
- jdmulloy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Anyone have this working with Gmail. I installed onto Firefox 2.0.0.3 on linux and it doesn't seem to do anything.
- M4v3R, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Just noticed it, now that's a good Fx extrension description!
- Sonic84, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3so now online apps are like, regular apps?
- 1021, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Claims these are copied from Patent?
Universal ID (larger version of SSO, been done for years before any of the "patents")
Semantic Search (Berners-lee, inventor of the web, W3C has been talking of Semantic Web stuff for years on end, before "the patent")
Saving Search Results (WHAT?)
Access Applications and online data Offline (Right... so now I can't write any application that can access online data because of this patent? Come on.)
Integrated Communication Tools (Email/Messaging/VoIP) --- .... don't even get me started.
It's people like this that throw around LANGUAGE with no PRODUCTS that make a killing on patent systems. - tmahmood, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4It's been my official no 1 news reader since I've started to use it ^_^
- FetalSage, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3This could definitely help on my way home from work, since I only have a limited internet time on the ferry. I could just download my latest RSS feeds from Google Reader and read them even without an internet connection.
I'm looking forward to future applications using this feature! - crpietschmann, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2This is functionality that needs to get built into the browsers.
- Eragmus, on 10/11/2007, -6/+8Sorry for plugging myself in here, but... I get an error message :(
"Install Failed. Erorr code = 0x80004005" - vhold, on 10/11/2007, -5/+7@vuke69
D'oh! Totally missed the smaller download links beneath the big "Download for windows"
Thanks for setting me straight. - Altanar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2[quote]Can we stop numbering the web "versions" yet?[/quote]
It'll stop when everything else stops using version numbers in their official product titles. In other words, never. - markdr123, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Read the developer site.
http://code.google.com/apis/gears/
It does a lot more than all that. - markdr123, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I think the emphasis is being placed in the wrong place here. Google Gears marks the birth of Web 3.0.
Google have done an excellent job at documenting and developing this package and it's all open - it's ready to roll into any AJAX site there. We'll see Google roll it into Gmail, and no doubt Docs, Spreadsheet and Calendar. But the opportunity is there for everyone else to do the same thing.
I'm personally really excited about integrating this into the personalised homepage site I'm developing. - judbeasley, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@ vhold
You must have missed the links on the main page that took you here http://gears.google.com/?platform=linux and here http://gears.google.com/?platform=mac
edit: I guess I should have kept reading. Looks like 2 of you beat me to it. - judsond, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1More likely people will just realize that a whole lot of the apps they use are from google, and more importantly, a whole lot of the ads they see are from google. What would the benefit of an OS be to them?
- EnderMB, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4I use Bloglines over Google Reader as a personal preference, and I don't particularly care about keeping my feeds offline.
What I do want too see, is an offline version of Google Docs and Spreadsheets made possible by this. That way I could work wherever and have my documents (with revisions) put right back on my account. - MrSpontaneous, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Does this mean Google is setting itself opposite Apollo? It would've been something big if Adobe managed to get G on, but I guess not...
- drobati, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@eragmus
I have the same problem, I posted onto the google group for google gears.
Here: http://groups.google.com/group/google-gears
There is already a thread regarding this problem too.
Here: http://groups.google.com/group/google-gears/browse_thread/thread/866730ca0a779e0a
Voice your concern there google will hear you better. I am behind corporate proxies so that is most likely my problem. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -8/+9In other news, Microsoft accidentally ***** all over itself.
- Ryosen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@guyfrom2006
All that "patent pending" means is that a patent application has been filed. It does not mean that the patent itself has been granted. The act of applying for a patent entitles you to use the phrase as a warning to other people that a claim is in the process of being made. However, this does not grant you protection of any kind and cannot be used to restrict trade.
Further, their application was filed in July 2006, when prior art was known to exist. Off-line processing within a browser is nothing new. - 1021, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1there is just no way the patent cited as below can stop a CONCRETE development effort such as Google Gears. Period. That patent is all talk and no walk seeing the site shown above. I mean come on, their "technology preview" is a freaking POWERPOINT???
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=netalter&OS=netalter&RS=netalter - duniyadnd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Scrybe is a calendar tool that's been doing it for months... pretty cool if you ask me, better than Google Calendar - http://www.iscrybe.com/ Unfortunately there's a beta waiting list, but I can't imagine it being too long, I'm already testing it.
- Lemon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I meant for Reader specifically....
- trghpy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Just in time for the developer conference starting in 2 hours.
- Ryosen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Btw, how's that job at NetAlter working out for you?
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