Tag: OFFLINE

In an attempt to regain her personal freedom, New York Times writer Peggy Orenstein attempted the unthinkable: going offline. But it took more than removing herself from the Internet. It took removing the Internet from her. Temporarily, at least. In her research, Orenstein stumbled upon an application called Freedom, which blocks the user's access to the Internet for up to eight hours at a ...

Users of Google's Gmail service can now check their e-mail without an Internet connection, Gmail engineer Andy Palay announced yesterday afternoon via the Offical Gmail Blog. The feature, which doesn't seem to be showing up in our Gmail Labs yet for some reason, depends upon a program called Gears that downloads and regularly updates a cache of your Gmail messages. So, while your computer is ...