September 1, 2011
I think at this point we can all agree that the infamous cloud is not going away. That being said, the cloud does have some disadvantages, and the most glaring of these is when you do not have an Internet connection available. Fear not, because Google has you covered as they are now offering offline access to Gmail, Docs and Calendar.
June 11, 2011
Stay is a free fun web-based tool we have reviewed previously. Basically, it offers a great feature set for planning and mapping your traveling and then saving and sharing your plans with friends, relatives or random people. Just a few days ago, the site launched their official free app for the iPhone which makes downloading and accessing your travel guides much easier.
July 9, 2010
What if I told you that you could download entire websites, or select “chunks” of the Internet to your laptop or to a portable hard disk, and then browse that saved piece of the Internet while you’re traveling on a plane, train or bus without the Internet? This is something that would allow students and [...]
April 19, 2010
Save a complete page so that I can read it later? Why would I need to do that? After all, don’t we have those things called bookmarks? That’s fine as long as the web connection holds. Even a simple thing as a journey from Point A to Point B could take us away from our [...]
April 13, 2010
The new iPad (as of right now) and the iPod Touch have some things in common. Among other things, they rely on WiFi for native apps such as the App Store to work, and they both have some overlapping apps like Mail and Calendar. The big-screened iPad works as a great e-book reader but when [...]
June 21, 2009
Kongregate.com is one of the largest destinations for Flash games – claiming to have a library of over 15,000 available games. This library, while readily accessible on the Internet, has no offline alternative – and even with Aibek’s tips on downloading flash games, Kongregate stumps us all. There seemed to be no way to play [...]
May 25, 2009
Normally, I would stay away from anything named BackStreet. Just sounds shady. Yet, I find myself going camping this weekend where there is no Internet connectivity. Egads! Gadzooks! Whatever shall I do? Well, I found me a great blog that I like to read and I’m going to download the entire blog for offline reading. [...]
February 23, 2009
Well, not literally, of course, but now you can access Gmail even when you’re offline. The Ninjas over at the Gmail team have created a masterpiece and are inviting you to give their new offering a spin. Too Dramatic, was it ? Well, the reason that I’m being so dramatic is that the feature that [...]
October 14, 2008
If you use Google’s services a lot, you might have wanted at one time or another to use them as stand alone applications. GMDesk is an Adobe AIR application that allows you to do just that. Here is how to get it working: If you are not using Adobe AIR already Go to Get Adobe [...]
October 13, 2008
Wikipedia, for most of us, needs no introduction. We use it perhaps almost as frequently as we use Google for our information needs. All of us might then wonder about the need to download and use a free information resource which is available only a click away online. But imagine that you are marooned on [...]
