Software Product Development

Software Product Development

Tarun Upadhyay   //  Tarun is still just flatly amazed by the power of the Internet, its ability to level the field and help the little guy compete with the biggest organizations.

Those little guy success stories are what drags him to work every morning and he lives a small part of that little guy's dream working for hCentive.

Prior to co-founding hCentive, Tarun served as a co-founder and CTO for GlobalLogic - an outsourcing service provider for large, complex products and software - which grew from 0 to 400 engineers while he was the CTO.

Prior to Globallogic, he was co-founder and CTO of Pinelabs - an India-based provider of Loyalty and Payment solutions using Smart Cards. While Tarun was CTO, Pinelabs grew from a drawing board idea to a suite of successful products running at many fortune 500 companies handling millions of credit card transactions per day.

Tarun holds an M.S in Mathematics and Computer Applications from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

 
Jun 15 / 5:19pm

Full list of websites that you can take offline with google gears

by tarun upadhyay
List of web applications that provide at least partial offline functionality to end-user using Google Gears.
Listed in the order of perceived decreasing complexity of offline implementation:
  1. Zoho Writer and Zoho Mail
    • Word Processor, Email
    • Not transparent.
    • You can access documents stored inside your Zoho account and edit them offline inside the web browser.
    • You can read and compose mail when offline
  2. Gmail :
    • Transparent and automatically detects your are offline.
    • Even has a "flaky connection" mode.
    • Full read-write access to your mail.
    • Even allows access to most gadgets
  3. Wordpress
    • Hosted Blogging Service
    • Transparent and full-access to your posts and pages.
  4. Google Docs
    • Word Processor, Spreadsheets, PDF documents and Presentations
    • Transparent and automatic offline access
    • Read-write access to word processor (no new docs)  and read-only access to spreadsheets and presentations
  5. Remember The Milk
    • Todo List Manager
    • Full read-write access to your tasks. Even allows local search engines to search offline tasks.
  6. Some Things
    • Todo List Manager
    • Full read-write access to your tasks
  7. Autodesk Labs Project Draw
    • create diagrams online
    • the application can run in the offline mode and synch files later when you reconnect
  8. MindMeinster
    • Mind Mapping Tool
    • Need pro account for offline access.
    • Full read-write access
  9. Passpack
    • Password Manager for your online stuff
    • Transparent and full-access to your passwords in offline mode
  10. Paymo
    • time tracker
    • Google Gears added the "ability to work offline and sync the data with the Paymo server once an internet connection is available"
  11. Google Reader
    • Feed Reader
    • Not transparent. You have to tell it in advance that you are going to be offline.
    • Can read and update feeds but not add new feeds
  12. Google Calendar:
    • Transparent but read-only access to your events.
List of sites that use Google Gears but do not provide significant end-user level offline functionality on desktop:

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