At last Google has come up with this much awaited feature of off line chat in Gmail. This functionality will allow people to use the Gmail interface when disconnected from the Internet. Google Gears is the platform under which Google is providing us the facility. Gears is currently used for offline access to several Web applications from Google, like the Reader RSS manager and the Docs word processor, and from other providers like Zoho, which uses it for offline access to its e-mail and word processing browser-based applications.

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