Google Gears Could Help Make Your Apps Work Offline

May 30, 2007 11:56 PM | Chris P.
Categories : Web 2.0,JavaScript,Google

I saw this story about Google Gears on Ryan's blog earlier. It is such cool news that I wanted to make sure it got spread. Having a consistent cross-browser, cross-platform way to implement an "occasionally connected" work-flow for web-applications seems like huge news to me. Plus, Google + Adobe + Mozilla = Happy if you ask me.

I've already installed Gears and tried it with Google Reader under both WinXP and PCLinuxOS 2007.

Please go and check out the JavaScript syntax for executing SQL against a local SQLite database.

" What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo by ZDNet's Ryan Stewart -- Some big news today that Google is announcing an open source project called "Google Gears" which is an open source collaboration between Google, Adobe, Mozilla, and Opera that enables offline web applications in the browser. It seems very similar to the announcement that Mozilla made about the offline features in Firefox 3 and will be [...]"

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I See You ... On Google

May 30, 2007 11:21 PM | Chris P.
Categories : Bizzare,Google

Every time I turn around Google is doing some new ridiculously cool thing. This time it's Google Maps Street View.

Check out this link. I just picked a street in San Fran at random and started heading down it. I noticed some people. So, I zoomed in. If you knew these guys, you'd easily recognize them.

Where's Sean's house? Maybe I can cruise by and see some of his beautiful cats in the window sill.

I'd love to know when the Google Street View trucks come to PDX. Then, random strangers could blog about seeing me.

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