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Grinding the (Google) Gears<\/h1>\n

By Scott Nesbitt – Sunday, March 8, 2009<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Cloud computing<\/em>. It's a phrase that's been on the lips of many computer users over the last year or so. Imagine being able to work or to access your files from anywhere there's an Internet connection. And you don't have to be at your own desktop computer<\/a> or laptop computer<\/a>, either.

The main problem with cloud computing, though, is that you're not always online. You might be on an airplane or train without an Internet connection. You might be in a spot where a connection is spotty at best. So, what do you do?
Turn to Google Gears<\/a>, that's what.<\/p>\n

Gears: a brief introduction<\/h2>\n

"Imagine being able to work or to access your files from anywhere there's an Internet connection."<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span>Google Gears is an Open Source Web browser extension (from the folks at Google, obviously) that literally brings a Web application offline. Using Gears, you not only turn the Web application into a desktop shortcut, but you can also use that application when you aren't connected to the Web. Gears stores all of your data offline and synchronizes it when you reconnect. It more or less creates a copy of the Web application on your hard drive, and allows you to seamlessly work in that application. Once you reconnect to the Web, Gears will synchronize the data on your hard drive with the live Web application.<\/p>\n

For the techie canada pharmacy viagra<\/a> (or the techie wannabe), developers of Web applications integrate Gears with their applications using a set of <\/font>APIs<\/font><\/a> (application programming interface), which are a way to enable two bits of unrelated software to talk to each other). The APIs enable Gears to (among other things) save a copy of the Web application on your computer and to store your data locally using a small, fast database. You can read more about the Gears APIs <\/font>here<\/font><\/a> and <\/font>here<\/font><\/a>. <\/font><\/p>\n

Note that Gears doesn't work with all Web applications. Some of the Web applications that do support Gears include:<\/p>\n