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Google Gears is Launched

Posted by samzenpus on from the google-google-google dept.

Mister Inbetween writes "Google is rolling out a technology designed to overcome the major drawback faced by all web-based applications: the fact that they don't work without an internet connection. Google Gears is an open source technology for creating offline web applications that is being launched today at Google's annual Developer Day gatherings around the world."

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  1. Oooh! by DrEldarion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And don't forget your Google Gear, too.

  2. Zip Zoom Fly! by DeadBugs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    zipzoomfly.com used to be called "googlegear" before Google forced them to change their name.

    Either way it's still one of the best sites to buy computer parts from.

    Just a little piece of web history.

    --
    http://www.kubuntu.org/
  3. No Thanks! I use a local web server by littlewink · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wrote a simple web server in Perl that runs locally. Works fine.

    Why would I do such a thing?
    BECAUSE I CAN! BWAHAHAHAAAAHHH!8-))