Adobe AIR Rich Internet Desktop Application for Gmail. Flump - onairbustour - Simple Flickr image downloader - Project Hosting on Google Code. Cloud computing is still vulnerable to the perfect storm. Two hours without Google Mail was stark reminder that you trust the cloud at your peril. Cloud computing was brought back to earth recently when the mighty Google suffered a two hour email outage. It might not seem like much, but it's a reminder that using online applications is not without risk. If you keep all your data stored on the internet - such as in the Google Docs online office suite - you're at the mercy of both Google and the internet.
Safer is better.