Gears, formerly Google Gears, is software offered by Google that "enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser." There are several major API components to Gears: a Database module (powered by SQLite) that can store data locally, a WorkerPool module that provides parallel execution of JavaScript code, a LocalServer module that caches and serves application resources, a Desktop module that lets web applications interact more naturally with the desktop and a...