March 2008 Archives
I read on the Google Docs Blog today that Google Gears has been enabled for Google Docs. Given that I've become quite enamored with Google's software products, like Docs Calendar and of course Gmail, I was eager to try being able to edit documents offline with Google Gears.
What's Google Gears?
Google Gears is a browser plugin that allows you to take certain Google Products "offline" and edit/read the data when you're not connected to the Internet. It's currently in Beta and as of this entry, is only available for the Firefox browser on Mac OS. Windows users can use Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Once installed, "Gears Enabled" applications have new offline features that users can take advantage of. Currently this is only limited to Google Reader -- although some 3rd party applications support Gears, such as Remember The Milk -- so Docs support was the tipping point for me to give it a try.
Sorry Charlie
I installed the plugin for Firefox and validated that it was indeed enabled and fuctioning properly. I went to Google Reader and Remember The Milk and both immediately provided me with the popup image. Unfortunately, Google Docs does not. I tried repeatedly to reload the page and even went as far as logging out and then logging back in, but alas no love.
Then I went back and read the article more clearly.
...and I'm happy to tell you we'll be rolling it out over the next few weeks, starting today with a small percentage of users.
Guess I'm not in that small percentage. Poo. :(
In the immortal words of Bender, "I'm back baby!" Well, mix tapes are at least. :)
Via a twitter message late last night, I saw that Mike Rohde had posted an 80's mix tape. I've been listening to it this morning and I have to say that it rocks and I'm happy to see that the intent of the mix tape has lived on.
I think the tape imagery is a bit silly, but clearly their target market is to those of us that remember creating and sharing mix tapes. For those that find that cassettes a bit dated, like my good friend Pickles, perhaps it's just a cool retro thing. Thinking about that for a moment makes me cringe slightly when I think that my memories have become kitsch. Wow, that's a really special feeling.
But that's beside the point -- these mix tapes are fun and Rohde's 80's mix is quite a trip down memory lane. You can listen to his mix tape below, or create your own at MixWit.com
