Archive for category Web Services
Google Gears, Prism, and Linux 64-bit
Posted by Jorge Fernandez in Gears, Gmail, Google, Google Apps, Linux, Ubuntu on August 6th, 2009
I recently started using Prism and I really like having my Google Apps as Desktop apps and not in the browser. The only thing that was missing was offline support for Gmail and Google calendar. Google doesn’t officially support Gears on 64 Bit Linux but Niels Peen compiled a working version for Firefox. I downloaded that version and then I un-zipped the “.xpi” (.xpi files are just renamed 
zip files) and edited the “install.rdf” as per Douglas Meyer’s Blog post and it worked perfectly. Here is a link to my compiled version. google-gears-x86_64. I tested it on Ubuntu 9.04 64 Bit with Prisim 0.8
Updated: I have recently stopped using this since it became unstable with Prisim 1.0 . Google has also dropped development for Gears. They have opted to go with Standards Compliant HTML5 Storage in the future. You can see what google has to say here. I wouldn’t recommend using this anymore.
Google Wave: First Take
Posted by Jorge Fernandez in Google, Web Services on June 3rd, 2009
I have to admit that I am very impressed with Google’s latest endeavor. Google has set out to reinvent one of the internet’s most basic tools e-mail….
Google Wave UI Prototype
Google Wave was introduced at Google I/O on Monday to a large group of developers. During the conference the wave team introduced the concepts behind wave and previewed the early prototype of the project. Development of wave was start in 2007 and is still in its very early form. Wave integrates features from email, forum (discussion) boards, blogs, and social networks all together. The wave protocol will be open sourced, allowing for open collaboration with developers around the world.
You can watch the preview here:
This is a very exciting concept and one that I look forward to working on.
For more infromation go to http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html
Countdown to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
Posted by Jorge Fernandez in Linux, Ubuntu, Web Services on April 2nd, 2009
Countdown to Jaunty
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) is set to be released on April 23rd. This release will include the option of using the much anitcipated filesystem ext4. Ext4 includes many speed upgrades and 64-bit storage limits. More information can be found here.
Apart from the Ext4, Jaunty includes many other features like:
- GNOME 2.26
- Support for Amazon Web Services (EC2 & S3)
- New notifications system
- and much much more….
For more information about the release go to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/jaunty/beta
I will be posting my reviews about it next week once I install the beta on my new laptop. 
