Chrome: Life-organizing webapp Springpad updated today with offline syncing, so you can view and edit all your notes, lists, and other items even when you don't have an internet connection. More »

Add Instapaper for Chrome to the list of Chrome webapps that aren't just bookmarks. This unofficial webapp adds offline article syncing, extended pagination options, and saving of where you left off in an article to the popular read-later service. More »

Tipsters like theworldisasheep saw it, this editor confirmed it, and Google even mentioned it in their blog post, at the very end: the latest release of their Chrome browser often crashes when loading Gmail with Offline enabled. It will likely get fixed in a small new update coming soon, but in the meantime, if you're desperate to get back into Gmail without your browser dying, you can create a temporary bookmark to the no-labs version of Gmail head to your Options, switch to the "Under the Hood" tab, click "Gears Settings," and click the "Remove" link next to Gmail and Google-related items. You may lose your offline data for now, but you'll be able to re-synchronize it when two of Google's best products finish duking it out. [Google Code]