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Until now, the one drawback with GMail is that if you’re offline, you can’t read any of your messages, search through past missives or draft replies. Now Google is finally fixing that by rolling out a beta feature that lets you access everything offline. According to the Official GMail Blog, the new feature will use Google Gears to download a local cache of your inbox and, promises Google, enable you to work on your mail as normal – any composed messages and changes will be sent and synced once a connection is re-established. Google says the new feature will pop up under the Labs tab in GMail users’ screens in the next few days.
Have been having fun with Google’s new Picasa 3 for Mac photo-sharing software. I share most of my photos online through either Picasa or Facebook, usually using the exporter plug-ins you can add to iPhoto. The new version of Picasa makes it even easier to organise and share pictures. In addition to uploading fast and seamlessly to Picasa Web Albums for sharing with family and friends, there’s a whole slew of new features that let you adjust everything from red eye to colour temperature as well as neat effects like soft focus, film grain and graduated tint. It’s not Photoshop by any means but you can very quickly make some interesting tweaks and corrections. You can import all your existing pictures from your hard drive to Picasa but if you alter an image in anyway, Picasa will make a new copy and leave the original iPhoto image untouched. Picasa also has push-button options for e-mailing images, creating collages, gift CDs, uploading to Blogger accounts and slidehow movies that you can upload directly to YouTube. Not bad for free!
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