Offline Google Mail hands-on. One of the things that made Google apps the web-based productivity suite to beat was the ability to access your information offline using Gears.
When that experiment was killed, many of us let loose a single tear as we contemplated returning to our desktop apps. Well, as promised, HTML5 is finally returning Gmail to its former offline glory. Docs and Calendar will follow in the coming days, but anyone can get access to their Gmail accounts offline now by installing the Offline Google Mail app for Chrome. Before we had even finished spreading the wonderful news we already had it installed and fired up. So, how's it work? Offline Google Mail hands-on See all photos 10 Photos Let's get the most important information out of the way first -- it does, in fact, work.
Once you've got that app conflict cleared up, the first thing you'll notice (besides the new, blue icon) is that Offline Google Mail looks almost exactly like the web app for tablets. Comments. 10 Best Bit Torrent Search Engines. Torrents became the new face of P2P sharing a long time ago, when services like Kazaa, Ares and LimeWire had already lived their peaks.
From what started as an experimental platform, BitTorrent has today become the giant that can bring you almost anything – anywhere. Be it movies, games, software programs, music, e-books and comics and what not; it’s hard to imagine not being able to find something in the torrent cloud. Most of the time, a missing item only means you’re not looking in the right place. To address this very thought, we’ve put together a list of these rather useful torrent search engines that you can utilize to locate your cherished torrents. The websites presented below are just the author’s picks and are in no particular order. Best Torrent Search Engines #1. A relatively fresh entrant to torrent search engine scenario, people running Torlock are serious about what they’re doing. Best Torrent Search Engines #2. For regular downloaders, Kickass Torrents is nothing new. The Google+ project: A quick look Analysis: Of old values and modernity.
Boldly proclaiming that old constitutional principles do not yield to new waves of technology, but leaving itself chances to make some exceptions, the Supreme Court on Monday flatly barred state legislatures and Congress from trying to shield children from violent video games, took on anew the issue of whether government can protect children from dirty words and adult nudity on TV and radio, and promised a new decision on high-tech police surveillance and its impact on individual privacy.
On the last public session of the Term, when modernity was front-and-center on the Court’s docket, the Justices were clearly not of one mind about it, and were not promising that they would be when they next explore today’s changing values. It is clearly a feature of modern life that teens — and sub-teens — spend hours and hours playing electronic games, for better or for worse. On violent video games, the Court’s members took four different approaches in Brown v. To a recital by Justice Samuel A. Google Exec Marissa Mayer Explains Why There Aren't More Girl Geeks. In 1999, Marissa Mayer, then a recent Stanford University graduate, joined a little-known startup with fewer than 20 employees that she calculated as having a two percent chance of success: Google.
Now, as a senior executive with the search giant, Mayer is one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley. Her work at Google influences how hundreds of millions of people access information on the web and she plays a key role in shaping Google's most important products, from the look and feel of its homepage to popular features like Google News and Gmail, as well as its more recent forays into location-based services. One of the most iconic women in tech today, Mayer's career path offers lessons for how to attract more women to a male-dominated field and undermines the assumption that to foster more female techies, it's early or never.
Mayer credits Stanford's "exorbitant" tuition fees with turning her on to tech. Even after the switch, working at Google was not an obvious pick for Mayer.