English-language editions of Wikipedia will be offline for 24 hours from 4pm Wednesday January 18 (Australian Eastern daylight saving time) to protest the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the US. If you urgently need Wikipedia content during that period, what can you do? Here are a few emergency alternatives. More »
After killing Gears, Google reintroduced offline support last September with a Chrome extension, but that wasn’t particularly well received either. Will the latest update finally make offline Gmail a realistic prospect? More »
If you’re doing a lot of research but don’t want to overload your bookmarks bar, ZipTabs is a Chrome extension that will download and archive all your open tabs for later viewing. More »
Google has been trumpeting its plans to ditch its Gears extension for offline access for quite a while, and now we’ve got a final cut-off date. Gears will stop working on all Google sites from December 1 this year, and soon afterwards Google will stop people from downloading the extension. More »
Both popular bookmark-and-read-later apps Read It Later and Instapaper have gotten away focusing on the web and iOS until now. Read It Later has broke that pattern with an Android app, letting you save and read articles offline no matter where you are. More »
Serious Google Docs users might remember the heartache of seeing offline access disappear for what was “temporarily” a switch to HTML5-based storage. That “temporary” switch has been a long time coming, but in early 2011, Docs will once again offer offline access, Google says. More »
Reader tipsters saw it, this editor confirmed it, and Google even mentioned it in their blog post, at the very end: the latest release of their Chrome browser often crashes when loading Gmail with Offline enabled. More »
We’ve known for a while that Google wasn’t actively improving Gears, their tool that offers offline support for many popular web applications. Now the Official Gears blog explains their transition to the game-changing HTML5: More »
Gmail’s Labs section graduates another feature into the mainstream today, pulling offline mail into the general settings pane. It’s good news for Google Apps users without much Labs access, and it makes offline settings easier to access in Gmail. More »
