14 DAY TRIAL // Google Gears, the technology powered by the super giant which takes the web-based applications into offline mode, is now able to work with Blogger, the blogging service owned by the same company. Actually, it doesn't take the entire service in offline mode because it only creates Blog.gears, an offline Blogger client which allows you to write and edit posts without an Internet connection. The project can be pretty useful if you don't have a permanent web connection but you also want to manage and organize your blog better than anytime before. Sure, you might say there are a lot of other blog editors such as Windows Live Writer but this is a sign that Google wants to get involved into this market and produce a new Blogger tool.
"I tend to write a fair share of blog posts, and whenever I am writing them while offline I tend to open up Textmate to do the write-up. Wouldn't it be nice if I could open up my blog editor and do it all while I am offline?" Dion Almaer, Google Gears Team, wrote on the official Gears API Blog.
"We thought that this would be a useful example to tie together Blogger and the newly released Blogger GData JavaScript library to create an offline Blog editor, Blog.gears."
Since Google Gears was officially rolled out on the web, it represented an innovative technology which was never implemented anytime before in an online service. First, it targeted Google Reader, the web-based feed client designed by the same super giant Google which migrated into offline mode with Gears support.
There were rumors saying that Gmail might be the next technology to work with Gears but there is no official thing coming from the Googleplex. However, we will surely see new Google Gears-compatible technologies so keep an eye on the news to see what happens.