Google Desktop 2 Released

[mzkhadir]

Google has released an update to it's popular desktop search software. Google Desktop 2 adds a sidebar, expanding from the product's previous focus as a search tool to a full fledged desktop enhancement. By default, the sidebar comes bundled with individual panels for e-mail, news, web clips (RSS/XML feeds), photos, quick view (recent documents), stocks, and scratch pad for taking notes. As of now, five additional panels are available as a separate download. Google has provided us with a fun distorting clock, Time Warp, a to-do list, and System Monitor. A developer SDK is available for those interested in writing their own sidebar plugins.

http://desktop.google.com/

 

[dnuggett]

Google desktop pwns. I can now very quickly find any document without having to remember exactly where I need to navigate to find it.

 

[Mojoed]

The scratch pad thing is cool. I've been doing this manually for years with a text file on my desktop. It's a bit easier now I guess.