Google Gears Geolocation can now tell precisely your laptop’s location using WiFi

Google Gears – the browser’s plugin which allows a web app to work offline and store data offline, has just been released with the new Geolocation API, allows location-enabled web sites to securely locate where a laptop user is, using WiFi.

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Google Docs’ competitor, Zoho Writer makes use Google Gears to go offline!

I was once pretty hot about Google Gears, having plenty of ideas for developing applications that have ability to go offline using Google Gears. But due to busyness or any other kind of other excuses, what a shame that no much result that I have shown to you guys here.

Anyway, forget about my own exploration on Google Gears. Lets look at some solid applications that have adopted the power of Google Gears. TechCrunch has just reported that, one of the pretty hot contestants for online office application suites, Zoho, has incorporated Google Gears to allow its office suite to have the capability of going offline. Meaning that it allows you to access its apps and data even though your computer is not connected to the Internet.

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My very first app based on Google Gears’ Local Database API

I’ve been deeply fascinated with the great API, Google Gears, introduced by Google recently. I’ve taken the very first step, that was quickly to make use of the Local Database API to build my very first Google Gears app. This is mainly due to my background is more on database apps and Java, that’s why I chose the local DB API to start with. It’s really amazing that what Google has done, which allows JavaScript applications to make use of relational database engine to store data and SQL statements to manipulate data locally.

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Google Gears allows JavaScript web applications to work both offline and online!

It’s pretty interesting at least to take note here that what Google is going to introduce to us. Google’s newly announced Google Gears, which is an open source browser plugin that enables developers to create offline web applications using JavaScript API. Meaning that the web application developed by you using Google Gears will be able to work offline as well as online across browsers.

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