Today new opportunities offered by Google: consult Google Calendar e Google Docs without a connection will be possible soon; the same applies to the use of Gmail offline.
In our increasingly digital lives, we often entrust information and documents to our email inbox, only to need them in situations where we don’t have a web connection. If 3G coverage isn’t excellent or if you’re in a place where you can’t use a connection, accessing your email becomes difficult, if not impossible.
Soon, users of Gmail and related Google products will see this problem solved: a series of new features were presented today and will be made available to everyone in the coming weeks.
The first interesting feature is Gmail offline: simply download the dedicated application from the Chrome Web Store to access your Google-branded email even without a connection, as long as you use Chrome as your browser.
By selecting “offline” mode, you can therefore write emails, leave messages for your contacts, or start conversations: the system will “archive” them and send them as soon as an available connection is opened, thus performing an automatic synchronization.
It’s a different story for Google Calendar e and Google Docs: you can open and view spreadsheets and documents even without a connection, as well as consult calendar events.
At the moment, however, offline editing is not yet available, but Google assures us that a lot is being done, so the next new feature in this regard could very well be this one, which – incidentally – is indeed the most interesting feature for being able to continue working during downtime, for example, on an airplane.
Currently, these new features are available as Google Chrome applications but the technical team following their development is working to offer the same user experience of Gmail, , Calendar, and e Docs offline on other browsers as well.
The future, beyond the cloud of cloud computing, seems to be made more and more of mobility and total accessibility, anytime and anywhere.

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