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Google Gears (Beta) [Finally] Comes To Safari

Written on August 26, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 10 people have commented

Spotlight importers aren’t the only symbols of Mac-generosity coming from the fine folks over at Google. The Google Gears project has released a beta of their browser code which enables developers to make web apps that behave more like local desktop apps and allow some – or complete – functionality even when you are not connected [...]

Getting A Handle On Your iPhone Data (A Mini-Tales From The Command Line Story)

Written on August 20, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 1 person has commented

The past two weeks have been fairly hectic, with little time to deal with anything but security updates to software (hence, no software update news). This week, however, my iPhone needed some serious care and feeding as it was taking forever to load up the SMS screens since I have saved most every SMS I [...]