June 8th, 2007
Google continue to blur the divide between offline and online applications with the beta release of Google Gears: a browser extension that enables web developers store and retrieve data locally.
Developers
LocalServer: you can define a list of URLs, so that when the user is offline, Google Gears can transparently serve those files instead.
Database: an embedded SQLite […]
February 1st, 2007
It’s (still) easy to acquire music illegally on the Internet. The usual suspects are P2P, music blogs, or BitTorrent. There has been a crackdown on P2P in recent years, but due to its inherently decentralised nature, you can never really stamp it out. This year I see the focus of the media giants resting on […]
January 7th, 2007
I adored Tomorrow’s World: I was such a fan that I even stuck it out during the special medical-related episodes, which was no small feat considering my aversion to such things, especially when they would cut to a new laser-eye surgery technique without warning, sending me careening off my chair. Actually–that’s just me being melodramatic; […]