How to access your Gmail offline

What if you are in a situation where there is no network to connect to internet and check your email or say, you are in a train, you are asked for soft copy of your online reserved ticket and there is no network? Well, you don’t have to be in such worst case

if you can have access to your email. Either you can download your ticket, any attachment, email from Gmail or save your entire Gmail for offline access. But how to access your Gmail offline?

Just follow the following steps and you will have all your email, attachments etc ready all the time.

• Login to Chrome Store on your Chrome browser.
• Search for ‘Gmail Offline’ and install this app.
• After installation, launch this app and a new tab will open as shown.
• You will  be prompted for offline access.
• Allow offline mail storage.
• Depending on the number of messages and attachment size etc, it will take some time to download and sync data.

Remember not to go for Gmail offline on public computers. Gmail offline will be installed on your browser. You can work with your Gmail offline as soon as the app is installed, and it will sync with your online Gmail in the background when there is network connection. Just uninstall this app to remove all the offline data. This works well with the poor internet connection as well just like your mobile Gmail with 2G network. Give it a try.

How to access Dropbox files offline

Planing to go on a vacation to some remote place and not sure if there is network connectivity at that place? If you have a file which you would like to access offline where there is no internet of any network connectivity, then there is an option called Favorites in Dropbox to save some of your files offline on your Android device or any other mobile device.

All that you need to do is mark a file as favorite to get the latest version of a file for offline use. On marking a file as favorite, the file will be added to the app’s Favorites tab like a bookmark for easy access, it syncs the file to your device for offline viewing and also, will show you if the file is out of date and gives you the option to update files. As soon as it’s marked as favorite, the file will be downloaded on your device, you will be able to access the files anytime, even when there is no network connectivity. There is an option to download each of the file, just tap the Update All button on the favorites tab to ensure you have the latest version of each file. To remove a file from your favorite list , just tap the down arrow from the favorite list and just tap on the star just like how you did that before.