Google Gears, Popfly, and other interesting things
I’ve got entirely too much to do, but I still find the time to tinker with stuff, read blogs, travel down obsure virtual bunny trails to find various solutions and cool things.
One little post I read today came from Stephen Shankland at CNET News that suggests that Google is working on making Gears (formally Google Gears) work with GMail and Google Calendar. It already works with Docs, though since I don’t use that app too often (until they get the word processor app working decently) I haven’t gotten to play with it much. Essentially, what Gears does is sync your online data for offline use, so if you’re not somewhere with an internet connection, you can still use the data, edit, so forth. I don’t know how this works with syncronizing the data if multiple people have access to one document however, but eventually (3rd quarter, 2009) I’ll have some time to play with these and do more in-depth research.
Gears is also going to be bundled with Wordpress 2.6, so after lunch there is a good chance you could read my blog offline (why’d anybody do that?: )
Popfly, at www.popfly.com, is something that i just came across the other day. It seems that it’s a browser editor that will allow someone to create mashups, little games, and what looks like a reduced version of a webpage (think Google Apps web-page creator, Google Page Creator). In any case, though it offers very limited content and so forth, it is built so that anybody can create something, not just a code monkey. At least that’s what it sort of looks like. I’ll try this out in the next few weeks and see if I can produce a couple little games for the kids to play, and put up a site for that.
I did allude to other interesting things, didn’t I…well, work becons, and I’ll have to do that in a bit.
