And as a companion to this LH post, Marc Orchant at Office Evolution has a nice write-up on it also ( http://blogs.zdnet.com/Orchant/?p=455 ). I know this is old news, but I need to save this for future reference on my laptop!
Holy offline access, Batgirl! Google releases Google Gears, an application that lets web sites store their data on your local computer using only your web browser. Google Reader is already supported - read your feeds on the plane! - and word on the street is that Gmail and Google Docs is to come. Screenshots after the jump: