Googlee Gears is designed to let you access your online web apps and data when not connected to the internet. Gears is an open source API that google hope will help develop new standards.  Files are stored in a database locally on your hard drive and  sync up when you connect to the net.

For the developers out there, it comes in 3 parts;

- Local Server
Cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) locally
- Database
Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
- WorkerPool
Make your web applications more responsive by performing resource-intensive operations asynchronously

I’m sure it’ll be handy for some, but I’m afraid the thought of it doesn’t push my buttons.

Check out Google Gears