Speed Up Wordpress Blogging with Gears
July 2, 2008 by Jerome Locson
Filed under Computers
Google Gears has been powering the Web 2.o applications since its launching; enhancing your web browsers to work more efficiently and effectively. It is an open source project from Google that allows developers to create applications for your web browsers.
Basically, what the Gears does is create a cache of your web applications locally and stores it in a database – therefore speeding up application loading. It runs in background, updating every necessary files needed by your application without sacrificing your browsers productivity.
Wordpress.com now integrated the technology of Gears, enabling bloggers to manage their blog sites faster.
On WordPress.com it is used to store all images and other web page components from the admin area to the user’s PC, speeding up access and reducing unnecessary web traffic.
The speed increase is most noticeable when Internet is slow or on high latency and makes everybody’s blogging experience more enjoyable.
To enable this new feature, click on the “Turbo” link and follow it to Gears’ site to install it in your browser (if not already installed). Then the browser will have to be restarted and after logging back in WordPress, click the “Turbo” link again to give permission to Gears to work on WordPress.com.
[ via Wordpress Blog ]
