Google Gears Notepad

Aaron Boodman, a Google Gears developer, put together a dead-simple Gears application to show how easy it is to create one. Go to GearPad, enter a username and password, and you have a notepad that works whether you have an internet connection or not. Sure, Notepad in Windows works offline, but you can get you GearPad notebook that you wrote at work when you get home. If you need a real simple way to store and send yourself some text, and understand that emailing yourself is a stupid solution 99% of the time, check it out.
(via LifeHacker)
Google really needs to central control panel for Gears, so I can tell it to update all my Gears apps with a single click before I go offline, and manage my Gears permissions. Most importantly, direct links to my Gears apps, so I can load them offline without writing down […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg