Online offline with Google Gears
Google Gears is an interesting development that provides an open source browser extension to enable offline access to web applications. The application is able to store and retrieve local data as well as provide increased response by running asynchronous Javascript.
Word has it that Google Docs and GMail will soon be supported. For now, you can test the functionality of this technology with Google Reader.
Update: the Linux installation of the add-on works without an issue, though Firefox had to be unceremoniously killed during the restart. On Windows XP, the downloaded executable program is unable to install Google Gears: Install failed. Error code 0×80040800
