Google Enabling Offline Access! (Super Geeky)

This is pretty amazing. One of my major gripes about Google Calendar and Google Notebook (that you can only use them when you’re online) may be answered soon. Looks like Google is rolling out a new service called Google Gears that will allow you to store data for various Google applications (right now only Google Reader is supported) offline, on your hard drive. Then, when you get online again, you can synchronize any changes. This is great for anyone who uses Google Reader to read their RSS feeds and travels a lot (now you can read your RSS feeds while on the plane!). Eventually, if they make it work with Google Calendar, Gmail, Google Notebook… I think this could be a huge blow to Microsoft Outlook. I know that I’d probably switch from Outlook to Google Calendar/Gmail in a second if they 1) do actually implement this offline access thing well, and 2) implement better mobile device integration.

Launch: Access your Google Reader feeds offline with Google Gears [Lifehacker]