{"id":26,"date":"2005-08-22T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2005-08-22T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2005-08-22T14:58:20","slug":"google-go-for-the-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuazon.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/22\/google-go-for-the-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Google go for the Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google<\/a><\/tag> today released a beta (does anything google ever go production??) of their Desktop Search<\/a><\/tag> tool – this one is seriously beefed up from the first iteration, and I have to say I think I like it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

It operates as a Sidebar – scans and indexes your GMail<\/tag> only one account unfortunately :-(, files, photo’s (it runs a slideshow – that can include a flickr search!!!) has a “Scratchpad – for jutting down notes \/ url’s \/ whatever, it works as a RSS reader – it calls the “Web Clips” – not Web Feeds like IE7 \ud83d\ude42 News headlines appear – and it learns what sort of news you’re interested in and gradually shows more of that as time goes on…. a stock-ticker, “what’s hot” the list is endless…. but the one that’s really nice is “Quick View” webpages you’ve typed in recently – and you can keep stuff by “starring” it – very, very nice!!<\/p>\n

All in all it’s very cool – I’ll be intrigued to play with it more tomorrow when it’s completed indexing<\/tag> my stuff….. all it needs it a media player and a browser adding in and you new desktop has arrived!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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