Tag: GOOGLEDESKTOP

Google has released a version of Google Desktop for Linux. While the PC version of this software includes a gadget engine, Google Desktop for Linux, like the relatively new Google Desktop for Mac is pretty much just a desktop search engine. Google Desktop will index OpenOffice.org files, HTML, PDF, PS, MAN, and INFO documents among others. It'll also track your web history if you use Firefox, and ...

The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft has agreed to make some changes to the desktop search feature included in Windows Vista. Google had filed a complaint against Microsoft, claiming that Windows Vista's search feature was designed so that it wouldn't play nice with Google Desktop search. In a nutshell, Google was making a familiar complaint about Microsoft software: that it was ...

Scott McNulty at our sister site The Unofficial Apple Weblog got the scoop on the release of Google Desktop for Mac OS X. The beta software brings over many of the key features from its Windows counterpart, but Google professes this is no ordinary port. Not surprisingly, widgets didn't come along for the ride, but the app looks and feels very native to the Mac platform, and search is lightning ...

Google has been flogging its developers with wet noodles ramping up development to make your desktop more functional with the release of Google Desktop 5. The team at Google have been busy working on ways to pipe more information through Google gadgets and sidebar elements on desktops. The biggest noticeable changes are in the gadgets and sidebar elements. They now provide more visually appealing ...

Outlook 2007 is a pretty great upgrade to Outlook in terms of user interface, but is not without problems. Chris Pirillo describes a few here, and personally I'm still underwhelmed with Outlook's performance on my machine. Even when I turn off all of my Outlook add-ins (and I run a few of them), my dual-core machine still hesitates noticeably when Outlook is sending or receiving messages. In fact, ...

Remember when Windows 95 came out, and we were all introduced to the Start Menu? It was Microsoft's new way of allowing users to launch programs, and it kicked all kinds of butt over the old Windows 3.1 shell. They had done a bunch of user testing, and found that the Start Menu interface allowed users to launch their programs measurably faster than with previous interfaces. Unfortunately, it just ...

Mike Elgan, the guy who maintains the always entertaining Mike's List email list and related blog The Raw Feed, has an article up at Computerworld encouraging the liberal use of widgets. His idea is that since many computer users have either a laptop that they're not regularly using (only used for travel), or an older machine around that is still serviceable but not currently in use, this extra ...

X1 has long been considered the Rolls-Royce of desktop search applications, but unfortunately was often left out of desktop search roundups due to the fact that it was a commercial product (and an expensive one at that), competing against a number of very good free offerings. Well it turns out that X1 realized they were losing out to all of the free offerings, and finally decided to release their ...

Google announced today that their specially designed gadgets can be added to any webpage. Google Gadgets were locked into Google Personalized Home and Google Desktop, but now with the breakout of the gadgets, websites are sure to get some nice dynamic and rich content additions. Currently developed Google Gadgets include Google maps, date & time, jokes, games, news reports, flight status, ...

Say you've written a program that a lot of people will use. Say you really, really don't want them to mess with certain of the program's files. You could give them a readme file that contains a warning, but any developer knows that getting the user to actually read a readme file is about as easy as getting a 14-year-old to give up MySpace. Google, however, has come up with a very novel solution ...

Back in July I posted about the Google Desktop Gadget Designer and a contest sponsored by Google for makers of gadgets, a.k.a. widgets. Yesterday, at long last, Google announced the contest's winners. The supreme ultimate winners, who will take home $5,000, are Marius and Yannick Stucki, who created diGGGadget, which is of course for keeping track of Digg. Second place went to Turhan Aydin for ...

Windows Desktop Search has unfortunately had a bit of a spotty record as of late. Those of you early adopters that have been running the Office 2007 beta have been subjected to the previous version which had the UI stripped out of it. This wasn't a problem for searching Outlook, but otherwise it was pretty neutered. Worse, the indexer ate up a ridiculous amount of resources, and performance was ...

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Last week, to not very much fanfare, Google released Google Desktop Gadget Designer, a full-fledged Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Google Desktop sidebar widgets. Er, gadgets. Gadget Designer features a drag-and-drop interface design tool, integrated debugging, project management, and most of the other basic features you expect in and IDE. Google also released of Google Desktop 4 ...

Google Calendar got a few nice new features this week. Most interesting, I think, is new functionality that lets you display your entire Google Calendar directly on your web site simply by pasting a bit of HTML into your source code. The embedded calendar lets your visitors flip between months, drill down to specific events, and, of course, add events to their own calendars. You can also create ...