Google Gears now works on my Ubuntu 8.04 installation, at least almost. For Google Docs the little green symbol appeared after I had installed Google Gears for Linux. Then I headed to Google Reader, but there the symbol for offline support did not show up.
I do not know, what is going wrong, but my Google Reader just does not support Google Gears, somehow. I will keep on trying, but at least Google Docs work. That is one step ahead.
UPDATE: Seems like currently I am blogging too fast! I just added a new feed to Google Reader, and the little pop-up for activating Google Gears for this website appeared. It seems to work perfect.
Category: Google
A few days ago I have switched the theme of this blog from freicurv to WP-Polaroid and since then the visits on my blog (not very many visitors anyway) went down to zero yesterday.
I hope this switch to a new theme did not impact my search engine results that much and it is just a temporary issue. Especially for the Icybox 4220 I had quite good positions.
UPDATE I: Of course the theme has an impact on the visits, at least if you have the google analytics code hard coded into your theme… 
I guess the problem was, that I did not have the Google Analytics tracking code on the page anymore. We will see what tomorrow brings.
UPDATE II: The installation of the Wordpress Plugin for Google Analytics didn’t help either. There is something wrong with that WP-Polaroid theme when it comes to web analytics. None of the tools that I was testing was working anymore, so I switched back to freicurv for now. It’s too late to figure out what is wrong with the theme.
It took quite some while, but final it is there: the bidirectional synchronization between Google Calendar and Mozilla Thunderbird. I know, synchronization should be bidirectional by default, but lately the word synchronization was used with different meanings. However, I do not care anymore - it finally works!
I have tried it my own. WITH offline support!!! So, you can update your Google Calendar via Thunderbird and everything you change in Google Calendar will also show up in Thunderbird and can be displayed off-line (you have to choose “Work offline” from the “file” menu though). You can also make changes to Thunderbird and it will show up in Google Calendar after a while.
This made my day. I was waiting for this so long.
The respective links:
It might have some bugs still, but so far it worked fine for me.
Welcome on my little website. I hope the published information might be of value for some of you. If you have a question regarding one of the issues discussed here, feel free to comment or write me an email. I will try to answer as early as possible. Have fun!
