Google Desktop is desktop search software made by Google for Mac OS X, Linux, and Microsoft Windows. The program allows text searches of a user's e-mails, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and other "Google Gadgets."
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Official Google Gadgets API Blog. Thursday, October 16, 2008. iGoogle launches canvas view ... gadgets where it makes sense - see the post on the Google Blog. ...googlegadgetsapi.blogspot.com/Google Gadget Blog
Discover how to make the most of Google's many wonderful Gadgets: iGoogle Gadgets, OpenSocial Applications, Gmail Gadgets, and more.www.googlegadgetblog.com/Inside Google Desktop
... week this blog features a recently added Google Desktop gadget that looks promising. ... new Calendar gadget to keep track of your Google Calendar events. ...googledesktop.blogspot.com/Google Gadgets for Blogs. ~ The Blog Doctor.
You can add a Google Gadget to your blog to entertain your visitors or provide ... a Google Gadget as in above post OR you can add MP3 as a streaming audio to blog. ...www.blogdoctor.me/2007/01/google-gadgets-for-blogs.htmlGoogle " Smarter Gadgets Blog
Back to Smarter Gadgets Blog. Shop to It. close. Oakley A Frame Google ... Tagged with Google. 10:03 am. 4/10. This Week in Gadgets Blogs. Posted April 10, ...blogs.smarter.com/gadgets/tag/google/Google Desktop is desktop search software made by Google for Mac OS X, Linux, and Microsoft Windows. The program allows text searches of a user's e-mails, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and other "Google Gadgets."
Features
As of January 2008, Google Desktop features the following functionality:
File indexing
After initially installing Google Desktop, the software completes an indexing of all the files in the computer. And after the initial indexing is completed, the software continues to index files as needed. Users can start searching for files immediately after installing the program. After performing searches, results can also be returned in an Internet browser on the Google Desktop Home Page much like the results for Google Web searches.
Google Desktop can index several different types of data, including email, web browsing history from Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, office documents in the OpenDocument and Microsoft Office formats, instant messenger transcripts from AOL, Google, MSN, Skype, Tencent QQ, and several multimedia file types. Additional file types can be indexed through the use of plug-ins. Google Desktop allows the user to control which types of data are indexed by the program.
One unfortunate aspect for users with large hard drives: Google Desktop only indexes 100,000 files per drive during the initial indexing period. If you have more than 100,000 files in a particular drive, Google Desktop won't index all of them during this initial period. However, Google Desktop adds files to your index during real-time indexing when you move or open them.
Sidebar
- Email - a panel which lets one view one's Gmail messages.
- Scratch Pad - here one can store random notes; they are saved automatically
- Photos - displays a slideshow of photos from the "My Pictures" folder (address can be changed)
- News - shows the latest headlines from Google News, and how long ago they were written. The News panel is personalized depending on the type of news you read.
- Weather - shows the current weather for a location specified by the user.
- Web Clips - shows recent posts from RSS news feeds.
- Google Talk - If Google Talk is installed, double clicking the window title will dock it to one's sidebar.
Like the Windows Taskbar, the Google Desktop sidebar can be set to Auto-Hide mode, where it will only appear once the user moves the mouse cursor towards the side where it resides. If not on auto-hide, by default the sidebar will always take up about 1/6 - 1/9 of one's screen (depending on the screen resolution), and other windows are forced to resize. However, the sidebar can be resized to take less space, and you can disable the "always on top" feature in the options. With the auto-hide feature on, the sidebar temporarily overlaps maximized windows.
