I have been playing with Google Gears too over the weekend.
Now I can't decide between using Bloglines and Greatnews or Google Reader for
my RSS reading?
I did however notice that Google Reader with gears only stores about 1000 items
which is enough for most people but I tend to store months of entries in
GreatNews.
Ian Forrester
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Subject: [backstage] Google Gears
On 6/1/07, Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But I also wanted to get people views on Google Gears - Google
Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web
applications that can run offline.
http://code.google.com/apis/gears
I've played with it for Google Reader. It's nice, and works pretty well
(even though the initial sync, which you have to do manually, seems to take
forever on my ADSL line at home). I might try it properly this evening on the
tube home, in the vain hope that a thief steals my hateful Dell before I have
to give it back. My Google Reader is always on "100+", so it would be good to
cut it down a little.
On a similar note, perhaps this is the benefit of the BBC's iPlayer, in
that it works offline once you've downloaded the programmes. (If I've
understood the literature correctly.) That would put it ahead of the likes of
Joost / ITV / C4, for example, which requires a fast and reliable internet
connection.
James
