Read google reader offline

Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features:

• A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
• A database, to store and access data from within the browser
• A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background

Google Gears is currently an early-access developers' release. It is not yet intended for use by real users in production applications at this time.

Google Gear for Web offline

Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs:

	Store and serve application resources locally
	Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
	Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

Google Acquires Security Company, Greenborder

Google on May 11 acquired an online security company called the greenborder technologies. GreenBorder, the industry’s first Desktop DMZ software for Windows, keeps Internet invaders out and enterprise data in. It allows users to safely connect anywhere, go to any website, open any Internet email or attachment, and use any downloaded files without worry. GreenBorder’s unique, signature-less approach never needs updating and provides continuous protection against corruption, theft and invasion of business data systems.

GreenBorder creates a protected environment on your computer. Any type of activity and interaction, while you are on the Internet, will be directed to the protected environment. For instance, if you go to a website that is trying to maliciously infest your PC with malware, GreenBorder will keep the malware contained to the protected environment and simply discards it at the end of the session. This will keep your PC clean and free of any threats and at the same time gets rid of all the residue that builds up during your activity on the Internet.

Gmail attachments doubled

Google’s GMail attachment size has been doubled, from 10 MB to 20 MB, now we can send bigger files in one email.

Google is often the first mover to increase size restrictions for its free email service. Yahoo recently increased its free email storage capacity to support an unlimited amount.

For those that would prefer to use a third party for the sending, storing and receiving of large files, there’s always services like YouSendIt.

Yahoo Mail Announces Unlimited Storage

Yahoo is announcing that all Yahoo Mail users will have free unlimited email storage starting in May 2007. The current storage limit is 1 GB per account (2 GB for $20/year premium users). With this change, Yahoo leapfrogs Gmail (2.8 GB and growing) and Live.com Mail (2GB). Yahoo mail currently has 250 million global users, more than any other online service (Live.com has 228 million and Gmail has 51 million users).

Users are subject to Yahoo’s abuse policies, which requires users to follow “normal email practices” and not engage in activities like using Yahoo mail for basic online storage. Abusive accounts will not be summarily deleted - users will be notified by Yahoo and/or accounts suspended, but users will still have access to the data. - Techcrunch

Google Negotiating with Simply Hired?

Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdry says that Google is stepping up its efforts to buy VC-backed SimplyHired. The job search engine most recently made news with the launch of its job-o-matic which creates widgets for bloggers to create their own job boards and they also recently did a deal to power MySpace jobs.

SimplyHired is led by Gautam Godhwani, who sold AtWeb, an Internet site optimization firm to AOL/Netscape in 1998. President Dion Lim co-founded of Epinions.com (now Shopping.com) ans was COO at Sina.com. Last April, News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media and Foundation Capital invested $13.5M in Simply Hired. A year earlier the company raised $3M in angel funding from early Google investors Rajeev Motwani and Ron Conway as wells as Kanwal Rekhi, and Garage Technology Ventures.

Yahoo Messenger for the web

Yahoo Messenger for the Web allows people to check their instant messages and access their buddy list from anywhere, which could prove useful for those who are traveling or are forbidden from downloading client software to their computers at work.

The Web version of the chat application offers functions that the downloaded version does not, such as the ability to search current and archived messages from any computer. It also lets users maintain multiple conversations in one window with different tabs instead of opening up chats in multiple windows. Yahoo rivals Google and Microsoft already have Web-based versions of their instant-message applications with Gmail and MSN Web Messenger, respectively.

Google's Personalized Home Page iGoogle

Google is adding a bit of style to home pages customized by users of its globally popular Internet search engine. The Mountain View, California-based firm is adorning personalized homepages with an “iGoogle” logo and rolling out “Gadget Maker” tools for people to easily tailor pages with pictures, videos or musings. Increasing the ranks of people using iGoogle homepages enables the Internet firm to make more money from online advertising and refine its search formula by studying the terms people use to seek information online.



Developers around the world have been working hard to make more and more of the world's content available for iGoogle. Now we can make our own gadget today, without having any programming or web design experience at all, anyone can create Google Gadgets for iGoogle and send them to friends. Simple gadget templates include a photo gadget, a "GoogleGram" greeting card-style gadget, a YouTube video channel gadget, and a free-form gadget.