Odds are, we'll see full offline Docs support by the end of the month remember, Google's annual developers' conference takes place June 27 through 29. That's obviously a problem, but it won't be for long: Google says full offline Docs support for Chrome will be launched within the 'next several weeks.' Right now, Docs has partial offline access: You can view all of your saved documents and spreadsheets, but you can't edit anything or create anything new. Google Docs isn't quite as good of a situation, but it's getting there.

Anything you do is synced to the cloud the next time you connect the process is automatic and transparent. It allows you to read and search through your email, archive messages, and compose new messages or responses. The offline Gmail interface looks a lot like the tablet Gmail interface.

Then, anytime you're offline, you just open the Offline Google Mail app and you're good to go.

Right now, for example, you can get full offline access to Gmail all you have to do is install the free Offline Google Mail app onto your Chromebook and complete a simple one-time setup.

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