This release puts pressure on existing browsers for Mac OS X, Mozilla, Safari and Opera to implement their own versions of the Google Gears application space in order to compete with Google.

Also a simultaneous release of Linux version of Chrome is a welcome sign of Google focusing on all operating systems, rather than sticking to the most used and popular ones.

Even though still in beta, Chrome promises to become a fresh and innovative way to use the Internet on Mac OS X.

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Gmail is a fantastic email tool for personal and corporate use. One of the biggest drawbacks has been the inability to use the system offline the way you could with Outlook or Outlook Express. That has all changed with the introduction of Gmail Offline. Here is how to enable it.

Once this feature is activated, you can use Gmail as a regular service even when you are offline.

You can compose, star, delete, etc when you are offline, all of these actions are stored on your local computer and once you are connected to the internet these actions are synchronized with the Gmail server.

To enable this feature, log in to your Gmail account (personal or organization);

1. Click Settings and click the Labs tab.
2. Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.
   

1. Click Save Changes and Log out of your Gmail and restart your browser.

1. After your browser reloads, you’ll see a new “Offline0.1″ or a green beaker link in the upper right-hand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don’t already have it.

The rest is automatic and will be seamless. However, please NOTE!!! that this is an experimental BETA feature an will most likely come and go until it is finalized, so please be patient.

From Google’s Blog:

“Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.”

We here at GoITExpert will be following closely the development of this new goodness out of our beloved Google and hoping that it truly does become an ideal replacement for overbloated Redmond OS.

Also,  we would to coin the term CHOSOS as a special nickname for the Google’s new CHrome Open Source Operating System.

Cheers,

Editors of GoITExpert.com

Launch VersaMail. Create a New Account.  Set the Protocol to POP.  Click Next.

Enter your full email address and password.  Click Next.

The Incoming Mail Server is pop.gmail.com and the outgoing Mail server is smtp.gmail.com   Click Next.

Place checkmarks according tot eh screen below and change the Port Number to 995.  If you receive large messages adjust the Maximum Message Size.  By default the Size is set to 2048 KB which is 2 MB Megabytes.  Click Next.

Change the Port Number to 587 under the Outgoing Options.  And place checkmarks as shown in the screen below.  Click Done.

You will now receive the messages that are in you Google Mail Account.

The first step is to get Firefox as your browser and then to get the VideoDownloadHelper Add-On to Firefox.  This little utility is worth its weight in gold!  To install Video Download Helper, launch Firefox and click Tools – Add-ons.

Video Downloader is a free program for p2p accelerating, downloading and transcoding video stream from all video websites, such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, MySpace, Yahoo, etc. It has some tremendous features including;

1. P2P Accelerating?With P2SP (peer-to-server-and-peer), it speeds up downloading of video streaming. Its better algorithms have accelerated video downloading by more than 3–5 times.

2. Downloading: With automatically flash stream detection, video contents on many websites can be downloaded easily and free.

3. Transcoding: Videos can be transcoded into many formats supporting any mobile phones and PDAs, such as Nokia, iPhone, SamSung, iPad, iPod, and PSP. Would you please try it and recommend it in your blog?

You can see full details at http://www.bywifi.com.

Click in the search box and type downloadhelper.  Then click on Add to Firefox to install.

To download videos, when a video is being played in Firefox, there will be a rotating image by the search box.  If you click on the icon you will be able to download the video that is playing.  In this case it is an FLV file.

Foxmarks has been offering a synchronization solution for quite a while, now with password synchronization included their service, Foxmarks has entered the big leagues.

Foxmarks works by taking your Firefox personal data, encrypting it with a 256bit encryption algorithm using a PIN-code that only you will know and then uploading the content to the Foxmark server. 

Once you setup Foxmarks on another Firefox client, you will be prompted whether to merge the bookmarks and passwords, use the server data, or use the client data. It then keeps track of changes in the clients and synchronizes them with the server. The server also acts as a backup of your browser data in case you have a system crash.

You can download Foxmarks.com on their website.

Gmail Offline is finally here. And don’t tell me to just use Outlook.

You can activate the feature in GMAIL and use Gmail as a regular service even when you are offline.

You can compose, star, delete, etc.. when offline, all of these actions are stored on your local computer and once you are connected to the internet these actions are synchronized with the Gmail server. So, the mails you have composed or sent while offline will sit in your “outbox” until you connect to the internet. Here is how to activate it;

1. Click Settings and click the Labs tab.
2. Select Enable next to Offline Gmail.
3. Click Save Changes.
4. After your browser reloads, you’ll see a new "Offline0.1" link in the upper right-hand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don’t already have it.

The Microsoft version is fully compatible with Firefox and IE (about time Microsoft realized that not everyone is using IE).  The web versions will replicate the functionality of the desktop apps within the browser environment.

The Official Microsoft Press Release

Please note: Failing to follow these steps can result in your data being removed from Google.

• After performing a hard reset on your device restore your applications by syncing with the relevant desktop application (Palm Desktop/ActiveSync etc).
• Once your applications are restored open the synchronisation client on your device.
• Go into the Profile Settings and view the Calendar settings.
• Ensure you set the Sync Mode to Slow and click OK.
• Run the sync again to synchronise your Google Calendar data to your device.

You must ensure the Sync Mode is set to Slow before performing the first synchronisation.

If a Normal sync is performed after a hard reset the client will detect that your device calendar data is no longer present and will send delete commands for all these events to Google. This will result in your Google Calendar data being removed.

I’m not going to comment on the quality of the images, you can determine that for yourself.  You can go straight to Yahoo Images by clicking here.   You can also search for multimedia files such as videos.

As you type a search in the box, an AJAX like box pops up and autocompletes your search based on the keywords in their database.

It is a nice addition and I’m sure Google will follow suit soon.