Posts Tagged Google
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.
Net Neutrality
Posted by Jorge Fernandez in Business, Law on August 3rd, 2009
Net neutrality has been an issue which has been underplayed over the past few years. Net neutrality, a network design principle, aspires that all content and data is treated equally (Wu). Ever since its creation, the Internet has been neutral, but with the advent of new technologies this neutrality has been threatened (Anderson). Today, the Internet is one of the most important means of communication. It’s neutrality is crucial to all aspects of society. No corporation, government, or individual should be allowed to censor public networks. Read the rest of this entry »
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
