Read Kannada weekly Sudha via Firefox

A neat firefox plug-in for reading favorite Kannada weekly magazine Sudha online by Sunil…Here is what he says about the plugin.

You might be knowing that there is a sudha weekly (www.sudhaezine.com) that gets published. In fact, I personally enjoy reading Sudha at home. She has been my companion for many years now. I could hardly wait to get a copy on every Thursdays.

A small firefox plugin that lets you read Sudha at your ease.

Few advantages of this plugin are:

* Ease of use – All the technical details are abstracted. Just click the page you want to read and woila!!! you have it on your desktop. (Check the attachment sudha-ezine-plugin.jpg)
* It provides off-line capabilities. – You can read Sudha even without using Internet.
* Saves your Internet bill (useful for dial ups and traffic based billing) – Once you read a page using this plugin, it archives in your system, so next time when you would want to read the article, the saved copy is served from your own desktop. No internet is required for subsequent visits.

In fact we could implement many more social ideas around this.

Download the FireFox plug-in: Sudha-kannada-weekly


Google Gears

Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser:

-> Desktop Let web applications interact naturally with your desktop
-> Database Store data locally in a fully-searchable database
-> WorkerPool Run JavaScript in the background to improve performance

My Platonic with Gears!

Reader syncing

Taking Reader Offline

Confirming Reader to be trusted site for Gears! hope it won’t bite me!

Gears is available for Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac, and Linux

I have started using it on Firefox for Google Reader and also Platonic core, which runs on WordPress has been made more powerful in my laptop. Many google web applications can be taken offline with gears. Its really a cool plug-in. Try out!