What do you think about the Gears Geolocation API

September 4, 2008
Filed under Gears 0.4

What you see on the top of the sidebar is not server side code. More than that, not even a bit of PHP has been used. In fact, even HTML is almost not present. It’s Gears and its GeoLocation API.
When you allow Devoracles to collect some data about you, more exactly your location on the [...]

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Devoracles.com is now Gears enabled!

September 4, 2008
Filed under Bulk

Great day today! Well, for me it’s sure it is: I finally finished incorporating Gears in Devoracles’s back-end software.
It’s not so interesting for you, the end-user. Probably if there wouldn’t be a pop-up window asking for your permission to store files locally, you wouldn’t even know Devoracles.com is Gears enabled.
For me it’s very interesting [...]

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The story of the mystical Gears

September 3, 2008
Filed under Development

I was asked the other day to explain what is Google Gears (now only Gears) and why is it good anyway. So let’s see why Gears has been developed, what are its strenghts and in general what it is.
What is Google Gears
Gear is a software developed by Google and released under BSD license. It is [...]

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