Getting Into Gears
June 1, 2007
Yesterday, I downloaded and installed the Google Gears extension for Firefox. Today, before leaving home, I put Google Reader into offline mode. It downloaded for a couple of minutes.
A little later, I tried reading my feeds in offline mode. I was hoping that, via the browser’s Tools menu, I could get to a menu of the services ready for access in offline mode, but no such luck. So I went via URL to Google Reader.
What I saw was not what I expected to see, in terms of order and bolding of items. Going into online mode confirmed that the offline view, based on a download of a couple of hours earlier, had little to do with the “real” (i.e. online) view.
It may be that I’m misunderstanding what Gears is meant to do, or what Reader means to do with it. But my “first Gears” wasn’t the smoothest of starts.
August 7, 2007 at 4:03 pm
[...] I’m flying US Airways. Or rather, I hope to be doing so soon. At 9:40, we were told that our flight would be delayed by one hour. There’s no working free wireless here, and $7.95 seems rather steep for a day pass that I hope I won’t be using for very long. Before I go to the airport tomorrow, I should set up Google Reader for offline access, although it wasn’t too impressive last time I tried it. [...]