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Google Apps Hacks
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Google Apps Hacks

by Philipp Lenssen
April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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190 GOOGLE APPS HACKS
After installation, go back to Google Reader. You will notice a new green arrow in the top navigation
bar. This means that you’re in online mode—click the arrow to go into ofine mode. The rst time
you switch into ofine mode, up to 2,000 articles from your subscribed Google Reader feeds will be
downloaded for you. After the download is done, you can disconnect from the Internet and still read
some of your feeds.
Note that because Google Gears is a browser extension and not just a feature of the web site, you
need to install Gears on every computer on which you want to use these ofine capabilities.
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Installing Google Gears, a browser extension that allows
websites to take parts of their functionality ofine
HaCK 76:
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Google Reader is called an “online application.” But that doesn’t
mean that you have to be online to use it.
Google Gears is a Google-powered open source project aiming to allow web site publishers to make
a part of their application available ofine. Not too many web sites have this feature enabled yet, but
those that do allow you to use some parts of their application even when you’re not connected to
the Internet. Google Reader is one of the applications that is partially Gears-enabled.
To give this feature a try, log in to Google Reader at http://reader.google.com. You need to have the
Firefox 1.5+ browser to get ...
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