Originally posted on January 28, 2009 @ 11:50 pm
Google has announced that it has released an offline “version” of its popular Gmail service. An early version of the highly useful app can now be downloaded by users of US/UK versions of Gmail at the Google Labs.
The new app is quite useful and has been requested by many Gmail users for so long. The main feature here is now the ability to access your Gmail emails even when you’re offline. The program was written on the Google Gear platform. What the app does is quite simple, it downloads a cahse of the mail to the PC. It then syncs with the online Gmail servers when you connect to the internet.
Among the things that you can do when you’re offline is to read, star and label messages. When you send an email while offline, the email is sent to the outbox and is sent as soon as the computer goes online. There’s even a so called flaky connection setting that allows you to straddle both on the online and offline modes.
Watch for it to appear in Google Labs very soon.