Google Chrome was released, why didn’t I care that much?

Categories: Utilities
The super power Google last week released Chrome, its entry to the segment of web browsers. But, as you might have noticed we didn’t write a thing about it. Why? I was super busy with other projects; Chrome wasn’t released for Linux (my main OS); When I tested on my Windows install, it was fast but not thaaaat fast (at least for me); It actually completely froze on me a couple of times when testing; No extensions (yet).

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Use web applications offline with Gears

Categories: Utilities
The Firefox add-on Gears, formerly known as Google Gears, allows you to use web applications as if they were installed on your computer. Consider it as a fancier offline browsing. So, basically the data instead of being completely stored on the web is actually stored in your computer. You’ll have access whenever you want. The number of websites compatible with Gears isn’t that huge at the moment but there are some very good ones already adopting it such as RememberTheMilk, Google Docs, Zoho, Google Reader, and most recently MySpace.

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