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Customise Which Offline Gmail Messages Get Saved
3:00AM Kevin Purdy | Gmail’s offline access feature gives you your recent messages while you’re on a plane or otherwise unconnected. Now you can get speedier offline access, or deeper archives, by customising just how long to store messages. More »
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6:00AM The How-To Geek | Last week’s Gmail outage is just the latest in a long series of outages in our favourite webmail application, but you don’t have to let that stop you from accessing your email and getting things done. More »
How To Access Gmail When It’s Down
6:00AM The How-To Geek | Last week’s Gmail outage is just the latest in a long series of outages in our favourite webmail application, but you don’t have to let that stop you from accessing your email and getting things done. More »
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Google Gears Officially Updated For Firefox 3.5
1:45AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac/Linux: Google’s popular offline browser plug-in Google Gears has been broken ever since Firefox 3.5 was released weeks ago. Frustrated users created their own workarounds, but now Gears is officially back up and running with Firefox 3.5. More »
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Know When You Should Unplug From The Internet
3:30AM Adam Pash | Last week we gave you a few ideas for what to do when you’re internet’s out, but you shouldn’t have to wait until your connection dies before taking advantage of the distraction-free time unplugged. More »
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Read It Later Brings Offline Reading To The iPhone
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | iPhone/iPod touch only: Read It Later plugs one of the gaps in its mission to offer your reading bookmarks anywhere at anytime with an official iPhone application, which features browser syncing and offline saving. More »
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Gmail’s Keith Coleman Talks Five Years Of Gmail And What’s To Come
8:00AM Adam Pash | Gmail turns five today, so we sat down with Gmail’s Senior Product Manager Keith Coleman (virtually via Gmail, naturally) to discuss where it’s been, where it’s going, and that five-year-old beta tag. More »
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Google Apps Users Get Offline Calendar Access
9:40PM Kevin Purdy | Google Apps users may be noticing an “Offline (beta)” link in the upper-right corner of their Google Calendars. That’s right—Google’s rolling out offline browser access to appointments, and, for once, Apps users get first dibs. If you see the offline link in red, hit it and, if you’ve enabled any other kind of Google offline access with Google Gears, like Offline Gmail, you’ll get a familiar experience. You’re prompted to enable offline access, and to install Gears if you haven’t already: More »
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How Offline Gmail Decides Which Messages To Download
9:00PM Kevin Purdy | When you enable Offline Gmail, the new service doesn’t actually download all your messages—just about 10,000 of them. And Gmail has its own method of determining which messages it stores for serious email fiends. More »
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Google Releases Gears for Safari
4:15AM Gina Trapani | Google Gears, the browser plug-in that lets you access your favourite webapps when you’re not online, is now out of beta and available for the Safari browser for Macs (in addition to Firefox on all platforms). Gears gives you offline access to Remember the Milk, Zoho Suite, Google Docs, and more webapps. More »
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