iPhone 101: Clear local Safari storage to resolve Gmail issues
Filed under: Tips and tricks, Troubleshooting, iPhone 101
There’s no denying it: locally caching messages in Gmail on the iPhone (via the storage capability in HTML 5, similar to Google Gears) is fun and good for you, especially if you don’t connect to your Gmail via IMAP in the regular iPhone Mail application. Unfortunately, if the local copy of your mail gets funky, things can become difficult and much less fun.
John F. sent in this handy tip for resolving issues with cached Gmail; his suggestion is a quick dive into the iPhone’s Settings app, then navigating to the Safari preferences to clear out the local database that stores the cached mail.
You may have to wait a bit the next time you connect to Gmail in Mobile Safari as the messages are re-downloaded, but any wacky cruft should be gone. While you’re in there, take a look at some of the other settings options; you may discover choices you never knew you had.
TUAWiPhone 101: Clear local Safari storage to resolve Gmail issues originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Gears for Safari Now Available
Gears, Google’s “browser improver” (for lack of a better term), has come out of beta and is now officially available for Safari.
Gears is a browser plugin that extends its functionality by allowing it do things like store data locally in a searchable database as well as run JavaScript in the background to improve performance. A common example of its use is to allow web applications to be accessed offline.
Gears requires an applications developer to implement the functionality in to their site, so there aren’t a huge number of sites that make use of Gears.
A few that currently do:
If you’re a developer, you can checkout the Gears API and get started on implementing it in to your site.
Google Gears beta for Safari
Filed under: Internet, Internet Tools
Google Gears has been around for Firefox on the Mac for quite a while. However, Safari users have been left in the cold. Google Gears allows you to access certain Google services, most notably Docs and Reader, offline (as well as other offline-enabled web services like Remember The Milk). This week, a beta for Safari has become available.
With Google Gears, for example, you can view all of your Google Docs offline — and even edit them (word processing docs only, spreadsheets and presentations are viewable but not editable). When you connect back to the internet, you will be able to sync the changes back to Google.
We’re glad that Google has finally seen the light and released a version for our Safari-using counterparts. To make Google Gears work with Safari, you will need to download and install the Google Gears package for Mac OS X. Once installed, navigate to a “gears enabled” page, you will be able to use the Google Gears system. Remember, this is a beta and we’ve heard there might be issues if you’ve tweaked Safari in certain ways.
Oh, and there appears to be limited support for Fluid, which is nice.
[via the Apple blog]
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Google Gears beta for Safari
Filed under: Internet, Internet Tools
Google Gears has been around for Firefox on the Mac for quite a while. However, Safari users have been left in the cold. Google Gears allows you to access certain Google services, most notably Docs and Reader, offline (as well as other offline-enabled web services like Remember The Milk). This week, a beta for Safari has become available.
With Google Gears, for example, you can view all of your Google Docs offline — and even edit them (word processing docs only, spreadsheets and presentations are viewable but not editable). When you connect back to the internet, you will be able to sync the changes back to Google.
We’re glad that Google has finally seen the light and released a version for our Safari-using counterparts. To make Google Gears work with Safari, you will need to download and install the Google Gears package for Mac OS X. Once installed, navigate to a “gears enabled” page, you will be able to use the Google Gears system. Remember, this is a beta and we’ve heard there might be issues if you’ve tweaked Safari in certain ways.
Oh, and there appears to be limited support for Fluid, which is nice.
[via the Apple blog]
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Google Gears (Beta) [Finally] Comes To Safari
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Spotlight importers aren’t the only symbols of Mac-generosity coming from the fine folks over at Google. The Google Gears project has released a beta of their browser code which enables developers to make web apps that behave more like local desktop apps and allow some – or complete – functionality even when you are not connected to the Internet (Google Reader being a very good example). When you come across a “Gears-enabled” application, your browser will prompt you to see if you trust this particular application enough to let it have access to your local filesystem:
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It appears to store data in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Google Gears for Safari, so this would be a good folder to check from time-to-time (remember lsof is your friend) and the database files that are stored use SQLite, so you can peruse them from the command-line or via various GUI’s (one mentioned just recently).
Being a beta release, there are issues and you can add your own newfound bugs to the list as you come across them.
You’ll need Safari 3.1.1 at a minimum (and OS X 10.4.11/10.5.3). I’ve confirmed that it works with Safari 3.1.2. No word on Safari for Windows compatibility (let us know!) and don’t count on Mobile Safari support anytime soon.
If you give the beta a go, let us know your experiences and if you are a developer with a Gears-enabled application, drop the URL in the comments for all the TAB-world to see!
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