Gmail Now Accessible Offline; Calendar & Docs Soon

Google has launched an app in the Chrome Web Store that allows users to access Gmailoffline. Google Calendar and Google Docs offline support will arrive shortly.

Wednesday Google product manger Benoît de Boursetty said that Gmail can now be accessed offline (again) via an HTML5-based app available on the Chrome Web Store. Google Calendar and Google Docs will also be available offline starting sometime next week.

Mozilla Previews Firefox for Tablets

Mozilla is providing another look at what appears to be a near-finalized design of the Firefoxtablet UI.

Judging by the images posted by Ian Barlow, the UI is much closer to Firefox for Android than to the desktop version of Firefox.

The tablet version will include two modes - a portrait and a landscape mode. The landscape mode will move the open tabs in thumbnail view to the left of the screen to take advantage of widescreen layouts. In portrait mode, there will be only one tab icon that shows the number of available tabs and enables access to them via a drop-down menu

Google Magnifier Launched, a Blog for Google Music

Google's new Magnifier "music discovery" blog not only serves up free music, but connects Music Beta to Google+ indirectly.

Wednesday Google launched Magnifier, a "cousin" to the company's Music Beta service which went live back in May. Unlike the latter which serves as cloud storage, Magnifier is a blog edited by Tim Quirk – Rhapsody's former senior vice president and the current head of global content programming for Google Android – and focuses on music discovery, offering video of live performances, free music downloads and artist interviews.

HP TouchPads May Be Dumped in Landfill

So what will HP do with all those unsold tablets? Either sell them off at "fire sale" prices, or bury them in a device "graveyard," maybe even next to Atari's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

Now that HP has made it publicly known that it's ditching webOS-based gadgets like tablets and smartphones, what's to become of TouchPad tablets stockpiled in retailer warehouses?One theory is that the company plans to dump them all in a landfill thanks to the American government.

Hulu, MSN Track Users With "Supercookies"

Supercookies will rebuild your profile even after a normal cookie is deleted.

New research presented by Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley claims that popular websites including Hulu and MSN are currently using new techniques to track users. These include the use of "supercookies" which are not only legal, but almost impossible to detect. They even reportedly re-create user profiles after the user deletes the original cookie from their computer.