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Google Gears
Lifehacker:
Windows only: Free utility Gladinet Cloud Desktop removes the web interfaces from Google Docs, Picasa Web Albums, Windows Live SkyDrive and Amazon S3 Storage, mounting them instead as folders you can add, remove, or open doc (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Adobe Air: Sure you can export your RSS feeds from Google Reader and import the feed file into desktop RSS reader for offline browsing. Scoop takes offline browsing a step further by allowing you to not only read your feeds (Read More)
Submitted by brekatann
from Google Reader:
FoxGLove is a portable Firefox browser with Google Apps goodness. Google chrome may be optimized for Google apps but Firefox is more customizable with addons and many people like it. One Firefox user created FoxGlove with por (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Crafty Firefox user Alex customized his own Firefox Portable installation to tightly integrate with Google Apps. He calls his creation "FoxGLove," and uses it as his own Google-powered productivity portal instead of Microsof (Read More)
Yahoo! Developer Network blog:
Editor's note: I exchanged email with Lloyd Hilaiel from Yahoo's BrowserPlus team and he answered some of my questions about how the project got started, what kept it alive, and how today we've announced our intent to open s (Read More)
Lifehacker:
The YouTube development team has released a geolocation webapp that integrates Google Maps, YouTube, and Google Gears' geolocation features to show you YouTube videos uploaded by users near you. The idea is great in theory, b (Read More)
Submitted by rickmahn
from Google Reader:
I'm cheap. I bought a new laptop for business, but I balk at paying $400 or more extra for software, for a laptop that cost $700. What should I download to install on my new small business laptop? Here are my top picks for no (Read More)
News Network:
Web 2.0
VentureBeat:
BrowserPlus, Yahoo’s Google Gears competitor for allowing web applications to work with your desktop, rolled out two cool new features today: Drag-and-drop file uploads and desktop notifications.These are smart addition (Read More)
Submitted by svartling
from Google Reader:
Do you want to:a. Download and create a backup of all Google Docs documents to a local folder on the hard drive?b. Edit your Google Docs offline using Microsoft Word and then automatically sync changes when you are online.c. (Read More)
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog:
In the crowd at Microsoft's cloud-computing coming out party earlier this week sat at least one Googler, and, as the Guardian's Jack Schofield notes today, his observations about the event and its implications are worth readi (Read More)
The Guardian:
Microsoft has made its Azure cloud computing announcements at PDC, so now we know what it's doing: it is extending Windows 2008 Server into the online market so that programmers who develop applications in Visual Studio (and (Read More)
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