I was thinking if Google was playing on this one but realizing that the feature has been in G-Labs for almost a year now ruled out my suspicions about this idea. And I think the word “Idea” is not the proper term for use since it’s officially launch last December 7 according to  Gmail’s Blog. The technology is now existing and it’s all thanks to Gears and the programmers behind Gmail’s offline mode.  It requires an installation of Offline Gmail and that’s where Gears will be installed in your computer. After that, you’ll be able to use the usual Gmail interface and use the basics of reading, organizing, searching and writing without an internet connection. Continue reading →

Mozilla just released SeaMonkey 2.0 and is now available for downloads to interesting individuals who wants to be free with their old mail clients. Version 2.0 now uses the same internal platform as Firefox 3.5.4 in terms of add-ons and functionality of user interface. For newbies around who’ll be using SeaMonkey 2.0 you’ll be having no trouble learning how to use the system, it would take some time to get used of some settings but since it now uses the same internal platform as Firefox it’s much easier now. The tabbed viewing in Firefox is also applicable to SeaMonkey 2.0 and with built in crash recovery you don’t need to worry about the long data inputs in web forms being lost.

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