View Google Spreadsheets and Presentations Offline [Google Gears]

Category: Science/Tech | Posted by laraib 1483 days ago

If you've stored your slide deck online in Google Docs, you don't have to worry about the internet connection going out when it's time to get onstage. The big G completed its rollout of offline access to spreadsheets and presentations using the Google Gears Firefox extension/Windows application. You can't edit the sheets or slides you open offline with Gears, just view them. If you haven't given it a try yet, here's a video demo of how Gears works. Now if they'd only Gears-enable Gmail for offline browser access to your email... even with IMAP, that would still be useful.
View your presentations and spreadsheets offline, too [Official Google Docs Blog CNET]