Google released an open source toolkit for offline web apps – Google Gears:
It provides 3 significant components to the browser ecosystem. A multithreaded javascript environment, which provides a restricted background taks JavaScript environment for accessing remote data source without blocking the main UI. Adding support for local data storage is a new set of javascript APIs. The storage support transactional data based on SQLite. The last part is local application caching wich hosts data locally and pulls down updated data
The fist web application which starts to use Google Gears is Google Reader. I setup that feature today morning. It works perfect! Waiting for Gmail and Google Docs.
The new technology store online data to be available in offline mode will be very useful for travel web workers and people who have slow internet connection (yes, unfortunately 56K is reality in many places in the world).
[via O'Reilly Radar]
Recently I wrote about case for Nokia 770. Here is a BoxWave’s FlexiSkin – an ultra low profile skin case for N800. It provides reliable protection from unwanted dust and accidental bumps. It comes in your choice of three colors: Frosted Clear, Jet Black, and Smoke Grey. The FlexiSkin is the simplest way to customize the color of your Nokia N800 
You can read a review of FlexiSkin and buy it just for $20.95.
Recently I needed to send a script to one of my co-workers from the server. One way to do that is copy the script using scp to my PC and send it as usual. But there is a more efficient way to do that with mutt:
$ mutt -s “Subject” -a /tmp/file.tar.gz your@email.addr < /tmp/message-body.txt
I hope that all parameters are understandable. So, having mutt and using that command you can easily send email with attached file from command line.
Once Alexey suggested me to use online service Mobical to store info from my mobile phone. I didn’t start use it immediately. But recently I decided to try it. It’s really cool and useful service. Once registered there you can synchronize phone book, calendar, tasks and other stuff from your mobile phone with your online account. Moreover, it’s possible to export your contacts as vCard-file and calendar as vCard-file or iCalendar-file for backup or for some other reason.
Recently I found this nice leather case for Nokia770. Sure it has its own metal cover but maybe this case will be also appropriate for all Nokia770 owners. It’s just $38.99.
To take stock of your working time try myhours.com. It’s simple but power on-line application allows to create project, assign some task to it and add a time spending to resolve the task. The myhours.com has clear interface without some web 2.0 features but quite enough to store and get working time. It’s possible to generate report based on project or dates, build some charts, send result by email as Excel, PDF or plain text file.
I’m not sure is myhours.com is appropriate tool for teams. But it’s the best IMHO for individual using.
Since we’re using Internet actively we try to move our stuff on-line. Here is a list of seven web-based applications to store notes on-line:
At the beginning I tried to use Google Notebook but I found it too complicated and uncomfortable for such simple task as storing notes. The second was Notefish. I still use it and don’t want to move somewhere else.
[via Web Worker Daily]
Here is an interesting experience of using console applications only. As you may see everything can be done without GUI:
Personally, I use VIM and Midnight Commander everyday, links – time to time. I used mutt before I moved to Thunderbird. I was really surprised by playing music and video in the console mode. A Window Management system Twin also looks cool!
