Google has updated its Desktop application culminating in its version 2.0 release. Migrating from its usual home on the Internet onto our Desktops. For non-Mac users, or more precisely non-Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger users (without Spotlight) Google Desktop 2.0 heaps pressure on Microsoft to release its much awaitedLonghorn operating system.
Google Desktop 2.0 now available only for Windows operating systems, purports to mirror the ease and convenience already built into all Mac OS X 10.4 enabled-systems with the advent of its Spotlight technology. Adding similar features, whilst integrating access to Google’s already feature rich Internet offerings, into the global Windows install base.
Download your free copy of Google Desktop 2.0 at the Google Desktop site.
“With Google Desktop, you can easily find personalized info from the web with Sidebar and search the full text of your email, files, chats and web history with Quick Find. You can you can search:
- Email from Gmail, Outlook 2000+, Outlook Express 5+, Netscape Mail 7.1+, Mozilla Mail 1.4+ and Thunderbird
- Files on your computer, including text, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF, MP3, image, audio, and video files. You can even search your media files by meta-tag: for instance, by artist name and song title, not just the file name.
- Web pages you’ve viewed using Internet Explorer 5+, Netscape 7.1+, Mozilla 1.4+ and Firefox.
- Chats from AOL 7+, AOL Instant Messenger 5+, and MSN Messenger
With Sidebar, you can see:
- Email inbox
- Personalized News
- Weather
- Stocks
- Web clips (RSS/Atom feeds)
- Photos
- A scratch pad for jotting down notes
- Commonly used web pages and documents”
