Everybody is always looking forward to what both Google and/or Firefox has in store for us, each and every time they make an announcement that they’ve come up with some new innovative product. Well, this time around their teaming up for what is the future of browsing.(at least until WI-FI is everywhere) Recently Google announced that they’re Google RSS Reader is compatible with Google Gears for offline browsing. What this allows us to do is surf through our hundreds of RSS feeds without the need of your everyday internet connection. Google is not only hoping to apply this to just their RSS reader, but their GMail, Maps and possibly the rest of their online applications as well. To make life easier for them, they are teaming up with Firefox 3 developers to make it quick and easy for today’s everyday web surfer, by integrating all of these offline capabilities right into the browser.

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The reviews are going to pile up in the next couple of days, but we’re seeing some early ones, including the one below from Walt Mossberg. Watch it from start to finish and gauge it with your own opinion, but from what I’m seeing, it’s what most iPhone buyers were hoping for. I really was skeptical as to how all of these features were going to work out of the box, but from all signs, we might actually have a phone that lives up to the hype.

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Don’t want to carry around that extra equipment to recharge your batteries for your camera, mp3 player or cordless mouse. This device is for you. Thinkgeek has struck again with this handy little device called the USBCell. This incredibly unique invention has the ability to recharge each of it’s AA batteries up to as much as 1300mA in just a few hours. The innovative, but definitely “geeky” products I continue to find on Thinkgeek, cease to amaze me.

Ran across this, this morning and thought it was a very interesting look into the future as seen in 1964. It’s a graphic pulled from a Childcraft book called “How Things Change” and it shows what was thought the computer world had in store for us. It’s a simple question and answer machine. Which is essentially what Google or Wikipedia is to us today. We type what we want, we get it in fractions of a second. It’s very cool to see the future as predicted like this and then to actually see it come true.

There are probably many reasons why this setting isn’t on by default in Firefox, but IMO it definitely should be. At this point and time, Firefox’s spellchecker only checks any of the larger defined areas of a form, typically referred to as the text area. For those of us writing daily blog posts and needing this same feature in places such as the subject line of our posts, spelling is most definitely needed in every place of a form. Here’s how to correct it:

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