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As everyone know now, Wordpress 2.6 is Google Gears Ready.

In fact, Google gears is a product you can install on your computer to “cache” files onto you computer and simulate they are located on the internet. Meaning that any file cached through Gears will not be downloaded from the net, but directly from your computer, therefore, they are loaded nearly instantly.

How does it work ?

First, you have to install google gears, to do so, just go to gears.google.com and click on the install button, as shown below:

Once this is done, just go to the whole process, in the end, you’ll have to restart your browser so that it’s properly installed.

After restarting your web browser, just go to your wordpress dashboard and click on the Turbo button in the top right corner:

1. Turbo mode will then ask you to activate Gears

2. Accept Gears to access this site

3. And downloads files needed

After all these steps done, your pages will load faster than ever, because any css, js and gif files will be loaded from Gears and the rest from your webserver.

This option is more than just usefull and will save your time when writing articles, believe me !