SoftUse

Today I was doing some regular work. I went to my gmail tab (of-course I use Firefox), and open one email on my Inbox, I checked it, click ‘Older’ for previous mail, it opened and I read it and clicked ‘Inbox’. Surprisingly my Inbox was not opening, it was showing ‘Loading’ on top-middle of window, then it became ‘Still Working…’. And my eye’s went on Network connection, which was disconnected. Suddenly I thought that ‘hummm, gmail did kept the emails that were seen previously for faster browsing but since when it started downloading unvisited emails so that I can see them offline also?’

After experiencing this, a light bulb went on in my mind and I was seeing a Desktop Gmail Client integrating : Gmail AJAX version + Google Gears + Prism (check it out here)

Gmail’s latest version shows some really interesting features. Like in older version’s Gtalk - now Gmail shows status of your connection to server, and if not available, it shows message like “Still Working…”, “Unable to reach Gmail, Trying to reconnect now”, etc. . Along with this messages, Gmail caches all your previously visited emails and unvisited email too… Try it out on your computer, open gmail for about 5 min, after then disconnect your internet connection. Try opening some emails that you haven’t seen in this session, and many of them will open!!!

Lets talk little about Gears from Google, from Google Gears ” Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality…”. I love Google and I know they love Open Source, but after all Google Is A Money Making Company. It will not provide a great technology like Gears without using for itself.

And very new application - Prism from Mozilla Labs, allows you to create a Desktop Web Application, which can be added to your Quick Launch, Start Menu, Desktop, etc. .

And personally I really wish that Google creates a neat and clean Desktop Mail client that also integrates with Google Calendar and Google Docs. An Ultimate Apps Suit to compete with Microsoft (because I still believe that Microsoft rules in Office Apps).

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