Todd Mundt

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It’s definitely a beta and there are bugs, but Gears has released a beta of its code for the Safari browser. The release brings offline access as well as a growing range of capabilities to users of Safari.
I’ve used Gears on Firefox religiously since the day it launched, to maintain access, when I’m offline, to [...]

Nik Cubrilovic at TechCrunch has an excellent piece on Gears that’s worth a few minutes of your time, if you’re interested in finding out how this little plugin is driving web development.
I’ve written about Gears (formerly Google Gears, now open source) a few times, usually starting with my excitement over being able to access web [...]

In the midst of the Apple Storm yesterday, I completely forgot that I got an update for the Google Gears Firefox extension (now known simply as “Gears”) - the update that makes it compatible with Firefox 3.
I still have a shortlist of extensions that won’t work with FF3, but this was the big one; for [...]

First, we got ethernet connections all over the office. Then we got wireless at home. (Then IT stopped freaking out and installed wireless at work.) Then we found lots of useful wifi hotspots. Then came cellular broadband.
There aren’t many places in the urban sphere anymore where we can’t get a speedy, reliable connection to the [...]