Showing posts with label offline access. Show all posts
Showing posts with label offline access. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Google Reader Offline- thanks about time someone did it
It is so nice to know that the folks over at Google are reading my blog (well actually i don't know that i just think everyone one of their releases is about me). With today's announcement of Google Gears that will enable developers to create offline web applications using JavaScript APIs. With the Google Reader offline mode is the first release they have managed to solve yet another one of my problems.Last December as i was packing for a trip to Europe, i posted about the fact that i had a process in place to get my podcasts and videos all set to be offline but i had no way to go offline with the blogs i read. My short term fix until today was that as i get on a plane i open multiple tabs on my browser and then look through them offline. I even had someone tap me on the shoulder on a plane to Florida a couple months back asking me if i had Internet access on the plane- i didn't- i had just opened multiple tabs to read through when i went offline.
Well i used to have to make do when i went offline- not anymore i just downloaded it and it works great.
Google Gears is very exciting and addresses a lot of issues that tools like Google Documents have been criticized for not allowing offline access to. Scoble has a video of Google's Brad Taylor talking about the release, at the end of the video he says that a developer came up with this during his trips on the Google bus from SF to Mountain View- wait don't that have WIFI on those buses?
UPDATED: i figured video was not going to be available but i just noticed offline gets no images-graphics are important on many blogs. :-(
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Offline access- i can easily manage podcasts and video but why not blogs?
Back from a couple days of R&R in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The view to the left is pretty much the view from my pool side chair were the nice staff at the Villa De Arco kept bringing me fruity drinks to keep my mind off work and blogs (i went cold turkey with no laptop or blackberry for 5 days-except for the sneak gmail access to make sure a client project launched successfully-it did!). At one point i said to dylan that i was going to walk around the pool with my video camera and ask people if they knew what a 'blog' was since last week's social media roundtable got me thinking about the influence of the blog outside of the day to day world the "bloggers" live in. After the evil stare down i went for a swim to cool down on that idea....
So i got back on Tuesday night, flew to Seattle for the day Wednesday then back to the office today and out to the East Bay for a client appointment this afternoon- catching up on work email (yes it needs an overhaul in how it is being used in the enterprise) and getting some things out before i leave for a much longer holiday on Saturday morning did not leave me much time to read through all my blog RSS and factiva feeds, email newsletters, and follow memes but got some stuff reviewed this evening- just catching up on Jeremiah's blog takes a while if you miss a couple days and before i got on the plane yesterday i loaded his blog as well as some others on my browser so i could read the posts offline. Of course that leads to issues- not being able to follow links- or leave comments.
Here is an idea-So i am headed to Europe for the holidays so i am jamming up my iPod with podcasts and videos to catch up on, would love to also be able to simply send some blog posts to an offline mode (with the follow through primary links) without much hassle and without losing the cached page if i close my browser window- anyone know of a tool that does that?
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