Access emails in your Gmail account without internet? Well, sort of by enabling new feature offline Gmail. This is a very cool option for those accessing Gmail on slow, unreliable and fluctuating internet connection. This feature uses Google Gears software for implementation. It allows you to download emails in a cache folder on your computer.
As soon as internet connection is live, Google Gears syncs and copies contents of your Gmail account and the cache folder on your computer. To get started, you need to install Google Gears on your computer and perform following steps to enable Offline Gmail feature in your Gmail account.
- Login to Gmail account & click settings link.
- Then click on Labs tab and look for offline Gmail option.
- Select enable next to offline Gmail option.
- Click on save changes option and its all done.
After your browser reloads, you will see a new “Offline0.1″ link in the upper righthand corner of your account, next to your username. Click this link to start the offline set up process and download Gears if you don’t already have it. Email in offline mode sounds interesting, here is video from Gmail Blog, explaining it all:
Not only gail, there are many more google services which you access offline, like google calender , google reader and google talks etc , see here for more details about it techarena.in/guide/26155-how-surf-internet-without-internet.htm , enjoy