In an effort to be productive, even when I can’t find internet access, I’ve installed Google Gears in order to give me that extra added little boost.
So what is Gears and where can you get it to work? It’s this fantastic little plug in that Google created, which serves up offline content or provide you with content based on your geographical location. I use Gears primarily for offline use of  Google docs and Google Reader (the most recent 2,000 items). Gears was designed to be used on both Google and non-Google sites. Remember the Milk and the Zoho Office Suite …read more

One of my all time favourite applications as a blogger is Windows Live Writer. While it’s not exactly an office suite product, it’s certainly one of my must have products. And now, something that I’ve only just learned about – Live Mesh – will take the drafts that I store on one system, and make them accessible wherever I am! This all of a sudden made my blogging life a lot easier.
I’ve used Windows Live Writer for my offline blog reading, and then Google Gears for offline Google Reader posts, and now, I can throw my drafts up on Mesh …read more

Yup, Google Apps finally offers more collaboration among its users. Google Apps recently added to its online software suite the Google Apps Team Edition. More collaborative features such as:

Work on the same document together, instead of sorting out changes in attachments
Share documents and calendars securely with your co-workers with a click
Access it all from any computer, and even from mobile phones
Invite other team members to join and share with you

Here’s the product tour video:

Google recently announced that you are able to take your RSS feeds offline using Google Gears. Dumb Little Man examines this exciting new feature from Google and investigates what kind of effects it will have on your productivity.

The announcement of Google’s latest development, Google Gears, was met with a lot of excitement over the last few days — understandably so. The ability of web applications to work even when off-line is a huge step forward for web software, and even if there aren’t a lot of apps that can take advantage of this yet, the beta release of Gears …read more