As promised, Google brought back the offline mode for Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs. The updated apps use HTML5 features and no longer require the Gears plugin. For Gmail, Google chose the easy way out and tweaked the tablet interface. You can only use it in Google Chrome after installing this app from the…
Consistency is great, but not when it makes an application more difficult to use. Google Docs tests new interfaces for the document editor and Google Spreadsheets. Inspired by Google+, the new interfaces remove all the colors from the icons and other UI elements, remove the Google Docs logo, add new scrollbars and a “Collaborate” menu…
It was only a few weeks ago that we previewed the new features coming to the Chrome browser in version 12. Probably of most interest to many Gmail users was what would not be in Chrome 12, Google Gears. Gears, originally developed by Google as a way to enable support for enabling web applications to…
