Google Desktop lets you search your
computer as easily as you search the web and provides you with
gadgets to customise your computer desktop like calendar, clock, gmail notifier and
so on. Not to be confused with
iGoogle which is your online desktop.
Comments from those who selected Google
Desktop as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2008
"Just as I rely on Google web search
almost more than my bookmarks, I rely on their desktop
search engine to be able to find files and emails rather
than wade through layers of folders. It's not infallible
- being particularly frustrating when it displays part
of an email, but then Outlook can't open it because it's
been moved. But this is more than mitigated by the
number of times its found a document that I couldn't see
anywhere in my file structure."
Mark
Berthelemy
"great
at compiling a list of documents (usually e-mails or
student papers) by keyword.
Comments from those who selected Google
Desktop as one of their Top 10 Tools in 2007
"I love it. It
provides a large number of gadgets, not always useful
but still. I use the Web Clips gadget to track my favorite RSS feeds almost in real time"
Guy Boulet
"because searching the desktop is the way forward"
David
Flanders
"Because sometimes I forget which of
the 10 million files I’ve saved over the years is
the one with the words “lost my file” in it."
Phil Green
Directory listing
"I do not exploit it as much as I
could, and I've yet to work out if my privacy concerns
are real or notional."
Seb Schmoller
"both for myself and with
versions for various team projects."
Michele
Martin
"
If it's not in my calendar, I'll
forget about it. Google Calendar allows me to
keep my life in order - I make a note in my
calendar, then I can think about more pressing
matters. When the time comes - be it a project I
want to work on or a scheduled event, Google
Calendar emails me the scoop. I started using
Yahoo Calendar in 1998 and switched to Google
Calendar shortly after it was launched in 2006 -
and imported all my archives, of course."
Gabe Anderson
