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Want to use Gmail offline? No!!

Samuel — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:17:56 +0000

Google has recently released Gmail offline version. As usual I tried it because I love whatever Google does. There is some point of creativity in the ideas of Google. They do release some excellent products and most of them are free. That’s why I like Google. Coming to the point, Gmail offline also comes with some useful features like :

Choose which messages to get downloaded : All the offline email clients like Outlook, Thunderbird can be used to view Gmail. But the disadvantage is that they download all the emails from our inbox. Myself won’t even look at emails older than 3 months, so I don’t want to download emails older than 3 months and Gmail offline implements it fantastically. You choose the emails to download to work offline. This is one important feature to lookout.

This is on one side of the coin. On the other side Gmail offline has some bugs. I have more than 1 gmail account. When I type gmail.com in my browser it loads the offline version by default, there is no way to change it. When I enter the offline-deactivated account, it shows me this error even though I am connected to internet.

Gmail offline error. No offline data found for this user.

Obviously the error is reasonable. But there is no way to go to online gmail with Google gears (offline Gmail) installed. The solution to this is either going to gmail online (which is not possible when you install Gmail offline) after several attempts. Or else open other Google products like orkut and login from there and then go to gmail. The other solution will be changing the other email to offline. But Google promises to improve the Gmail offline in 2010. So guys, to don’t be in a hurry to use Gmail offline. It has some bugs for now. Wait for a month or two till all the major bugs are fixed. As for now, Gmail online is way better than Gmail offline.

Video tutorial : Install Google Chrome O.S. beta virtually

Samuel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:27:10 +0000

How to install Google Chrome O.S. beta?

Click here to download Google Chrome O.S. torrent. Use any bittorrent client like µTorrent to download the Chrome O.S. torrent.

Tools required :

1. Winrar

2. Sun VirtualBox

Install Winrar and Sun VirtualBox. Now follow this video tutorial and install Google Chrome O.S. beta on your PC!

Alternatively you can download this video from Rapidshare (WMV, 15.2 MB). You can use your gmail account to login through Chrome OS. You must have internet connection to use Google Chrome O.S.

Note : This our very first video tutorial. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Any suggestions and tips are greatly appreciated.

Stylize your image search with new Google Image Swirl

Samuel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:53:50 +0000

Google takes on Microsoft Bing with their new Image Swirl. Google Image Swirl makes your image search more visual. Everyone knows how much impact had Bing made with its new look and feel. Microsoft has neatly shaped Bing to look stylish, still the major share in online search market is retained with Google. Till now Google concentrated on improving the accuracy in search results, now Bing had made Google to concentrate on the user interface too. Google was very much at it and Image Swirl was the result of that.

Stylish thumbnails

You can search for similar images too!

Image Swirl is still at Google labs. So, we may expect more improvements in Image Swirl. Google lets you take a demo of Image Swirl here. Feel it yourself!