Sourcebits, based in Bangalore India, has released an AIR based GMail client called GeeMail. They’ve also created an AIR based stock quote tracker called Live Quotes.
Indian Company Releases AIR Based GMail Client
9 responses to “Indian Company Releases AIR Based GMail Client”
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Interesting idea, but I don’t really see the benefit of re-creating the Gmail experience in an AIR app, especially when it doesn’t include any of the features that make web-based Gmail useful. As with any AIR app, the question shouldn’t be whether or not something is possible to do in AIR, but whether such an app adds value a purely web-based approach can’t match.
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I am not a GMail user myself, but … the one feature that seemed valuable to me is the ability to work with mail offline, compose messages, and then send them upon reconnection. That seems to address a core limitation in web based e-mail.
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I admit I don’t use this feature so I can’t attest to its utility, but Google recently released an experimental "labs" feature which enables offline support for Gmail via Google Gears:
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Gmail offers both IMAP and POP3 access, if you need to read mail even offline, you can use any e-mail client that supports one of those protocols.
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Actually GMail does indeed support offline usage. See:
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Not to add to our "picking on" these people, but someone needs to tell them about the Air Badge installer too… :-/
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be wary of that Livequotes app, needs some performance tuning. It eats up all your CPU cycles while running.
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It’s not support utf-8 (multi-language), but it is another options for use.
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I am gonna try out their application. As they are very intelligent on the Designing an app.
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