Quick, what's the only downside to using web apps for all your computing needs? No, its not that Google could decide to pull the plug on a whim and leave us all out in the cold with no email, calendar, pictures, news, documents, spreadsheets, and on and on. Its Google, they wouldn't do that to us. No, the correct answer is offline downtime. When you're not in contact with Google you can't edit or view content.
No more! Google Gears is a browser plug-in that promises to make Google apps available offline. Right now its just Reader, downloading 2000 feeds for later; but soon the entire family will be able to pull the plug. Compose emails and send them when you go online, view your calendar offline without having to sync with outlook. The ramifications are... well honestly not good for Microsoft. Now web apps are just as reliable as desktop ones, except that they globally sync documents automatically. Yippie.
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