Gmail Now Has Offline Support
One more reason to stick to Gmail, or to get a Gmail account if you don’t already have one – its gone offline. In short, you’ll finally be able to read, open attachments and write email even when you’re not connected to the web.
All you need to do, is download the Google Gears browser plugin, activate “Offline Gmail” under the Labs link, and you’re good to go(if by chance you don’t see the link, its nothing personal, just keep checking, the rollout to all users should be complete in a few days).
As the GmailBlog says:
Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. As long as you’re connected to the network, that cache is synchronized with Gmail’s servers. When you lose your connection, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode, and uses the data stored on your computer’s hard drive instead of the information sent across the network. You can read messages, star and label them, and do all of the things you’re used to doing while reading your webmail online. Any messages you send while offline will be placed in your outbox and automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection. And if you’re on an unreliable or slow connection (like when you’re “borrowing” your neighbor’s wireless), you can choose to use “flaky connection mode,” which is somewhere in between: it uses the local cache as if you were disconnected, but still synchronizes your mail with the server in the background.
If it downloads all the mail, it’s going to take a might long time, and hard disk space in my case (and for a whole lot of other people as well). I’ll have to try it for multiple accounts as well.
Coming up next – the offline Google Calendar.
Here’s a video of it below:
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Great idea!!!Thanks Google.