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Google Desktop 2 Live
An anonymous reader writes "Combining desktop search and the Google Sidebar, Google Desktop 2 is now available for download. Dozens of new third-party sidebar panels are now available, Google said. Also launched was Google Desktop for Enterprise (free)."
The tranparency of the Apps over the OS are even more relevant. Google is a company of "must haves", and the stock price at 385 and strong reflects this.
If we don't fight for ourselves no one will.
Can I insall it vicariously?
Anyone?
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I could swear I've got installed already.
"Dozens of third party plugins now avaliable"
i dont see "dozens of third party plugins". most of these plugins have been around for a long time already.
Breath fresh Google Air (tm) as you drive you your Google (tm) Car will sipping on your Google(tm) latte while... And we are worried about Microsoft?
Will it run on my NetBSD toaster?
Let me know when they come out with a Google Desktop gdesklet.
I installed the original Desktop search, but since moving computers hadn't bothered to reinstall. I have just installed this new version and it is one very slick little app. I don't usually like giving up screen real-estate but I decided to try the sidebar and so far I'm impressed. I can see a lot I'll be able to use, not least the scratch pad instead of opening up notepad for one-liners. The to-do list is cool too - I know it sounds so simple, but my workload comes from two service desk queues, plus other projects, plus ad-hoc email requests - and I think just jotting down a few tasks to get done today in the morning might help organise things for the day rather than flitting about between tasks all day.
As I said, some simple tools, but helpful, and well organised. As for the desktop search itself, we can now specify network drives to index which is really cool for the dis-organised mess of nested folders that is my corporate drive. Gmail search can't get through my firewall unfortunately. The News search is great, it seems to have figured out my habits from history - I haven't visited any news sites except slashdot since installing and it's already got some new stories from my favourite sites... Plus some seemingly random interesting maps and blogs... no doubt these will cancel out any gains to my productivity made by ease of finding things:)
So all in all, first impression is a good one.
btw, does anyone know a way to create a firefox keyword to search the with this? It seems to need a session id to work, but maybe there's a way round?
// It had been Fat's delusion for years that he could help people. --Philip K. Dick, Valis
With a dash of wine while crossing over the office, perhaps it can!
I needs my fix already!
Now if google would do something with Natilie Portman.........
It has a couple functions but to call it a desktop is way too early. The question is when will Google stop riding the bear. "Requires Windows XP or Windows 2000 SP 3+".
It seems that this would be a boom to open for other platforms, esp ones like Linux who haven't yet been taken over by the Beagle (beta) or any other type of 'overall' search utility. I don't think I need one, but who knows, I didn't think I'd like my ipod as much as I do...
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I don't think i could perform on my desktop if i thought it was all happening LIVE!
You would think that they would have put up a screenshot of the sidebar where their stock was up rather than down $4.17.
If someone installs this, can they please confirm that this is actually new? Go into "About..." and find the version number. Mine (which I installed months ago, and still has Beta status) is version Google Desktop 20050818-en.
I can't see the advantage of having this funcationality on the desktop as opposed to a browser except it may be easier for hackers writing third party apps that take advantage of unsforeen secuirty problems which then reflect badly on google. What are they thinking? More ads?
I looked at it, and I don't honestly see what the big deal is.
Installing it forces a reboot under Windows XP Pro.
:(
I thought those days were over.
I for one welcome our new Desktop overlords...
(sorry, I had to...)
tried three times
error msg
"d 8007000320051101- could not upgrade database. " mentions something about possible lack of available drive space,
I have 3.27, 38.3, and 289 gigabytes free respectively.
'course, I'm also running in a SBS server enviroment, and have been having problems with reg key permissions lately.
tried running as administrator, and with the 'safe procedures only' unticked.. but still no dice.
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
You never know, Beagle might be usable before Google get their desktop going on Linux. But the Beagle keeps chewing up my memory, so I'm dropping back to using x-friend even though it's not Open Source.
:v)
If anyone has any better alternatives for us Linux bunnies, do tell the world!
Vik
yahoo's new mind blowing map? where is that news? more i read slashdot, the more I am tending to believe that slashdot editors are part of google's pr machine. so a crappy product goes out of beta - big deal!
I don't know about this one. This reminds me of those stupid "buddy" applications spyware would install to feign usefulness. Or like AIM or YIM or whatever that deliver you stocks, weather, news, ect. all in one place where I don't want it. Information overload, you know? But I'm sort of wondering over this, from Google Desktop's privacy policy:
Is this limited to using, say, Gmail and Google Talk? Or is this just plain, all emails on my computer and all chat logs and all my browser histories? Anyone know? It's rather ambiguous, and I really don't like that in a privacy policy...
And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be bannana-shaped.
I've installed every version of google desktop since inception, hoping every time that I'll find use for it. But I never do. It just sits there on my desktop, taking up real estate and looking fugly.
Other than replacing XP's pathetic search feature, it's really alot of nothing.
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Is this still a nasty piece of crap that stupidly assumes everybody is always logged in as root all the time?
Are all their developers so stupid and Microsoft no-security idiots, or is it just their management forcing them into such an anti-security model?
Bad thing number one: Requires a reboot
A couple people have said it so far, but i think it can't be stated how much we actually need a real, living, breathing desktop environment with the google touch. I'm thinking Ubuntu with the google flair for seamless interactivity.
Now is probably not the time. Wait until they finish their OpenOffice experiemnts (and makes it web-based... if only as an 'on the go' version). I'm not too worried about all of our stuff being consumed by the Google Grid. So be it. We've been tormented in this Microsoft hell for long enough.
Now, just to be on the safe side, i'd say that 2009 is the year of (Googe) Desktop Linux.
eric http://www.ericdfields.com/
Intergration? What about intragration and retrogration?
Now if you want do some ogling of the fascinating moguling
Who give the irritating adverts from the britches of the fatcats
Who put the software on the desktops on the punters
From the boonies of the harem of the court of King Ridiculous,
You're too late!
Because they've just... passed... out!
That is fucking awesome! Now we can finally replace our useless Linux boxes with a usefull app.
I know what you mean, but I believe you should be saying "Does it run on linux?" [other mistakes not corrected, I would write it as "Does it run on GNU/Linux?" How this was modded insightful, I'll never understand.
I like suggestions, but I don't like contributing towards them.
Insightful? Bah...
As it gets warm, it'll trickle down to a halt. This isn't counting after so many bugs begin homing into the glass to echo non-fatal debugging points. Somewhere in Siberia, there is a sole Trangendered Linux user sipping this on his Soviet BeoWulf cluster. I hear it runs quite fast in the sub-0 conditions. That proves anti-Microsoft vengence is best served cold.
When are people going to understand that Google is a business just like any other?
Being a business, they must focus on the return over their investment, which is much faster achieved when you develop something for the masses. Last time I checked, the masses were running Windows, not Linux or any other open source OS.
And BTW, they WILL do evil if that makes stocks go up!
I remember during the beta google said the news feature would show more news that you wanted and if you told it not to show you certain stories by clicking and removing them it would stop showing those types of stories. Well in the beta i would remove sports stories left and right but the majority of the news i kept getting was sports. Did google fix this problem or is the feature still junk?
I have no clue what the hell that means...
I like suggestions, but I don't like contributing towards them.
To google garrison instead.
Great new book on Evolution: The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
What's wrong with SuperKaramba and GDesklets?
The big change for me from version 1 is that version 2 does multiple users correctly on Win2k and WinXP. Each user can separately choose to auto-launch and/or index files they have permission to view.
I don't have much use for the sidebar, but the Outlook (what I use at work) search is exceptionally good . Nothing like typing a few key words and finding that email from 6 months ago in 2 seconds. Puts the built-in search in Outlook to shame.
Imposing Libertarian views on everyone online since 1992.
I agree with a few statements already made this should not be called "desktop" yet. As for the bar itself... him I do believe I've seen this before http://gdesklets.gnomedesktop.org/ or perhaps http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gkrellm/ gkrellm.html
When I did run gdesklets it was setup with a lot of the same features, quick notes, email, time, weather, calander and the list goes on. Nothing really new except it has goggle branded to it.
But can it actually run under a Limited User account?
It couldn't before, so I installed MSN offering (note: its not bad).
I don't get this paranoia about Google. Why is it a concern that they have lots of different products? Would you not buy a General Mills cereal because they make several other kinds of foods too? If you don't like Google products, don't install them, nobody forces you. Last time I checked, going to their website was optional, too (and I don't think that's going to change).
I installed the original Google Desktop Search when it first came out. The application was not bad, it just crashed my computer anytime I left it up overnight. After I narrowed the number of folders it indexed the crashes stopped and I now use it alot. I have found it very useful and am not annoyed by the sliver of screen space it takes up on the right side monitor. It seems the newest version is a little more stable and the new maps plugin is nice since I am a map junkie.
The real neat capability is the ability they give you to write plug-ins now in javascript. I have only been playing around a little so far but it seems like Google is trying to turn Javascript into the new VBA! I was very interested in creating a Google Desktop Plug-in before they added the new Javascript programming capabilties, but I was going to need Visual Studio 2003 and navigate through Visual C++.net. In just playing around the Javascript it seems both simple yet powerful enough to get done what I want. The comparison to VBA is not meant to be a put down. Between the Google Maps API and the Sidebar API for Google Desktop I never though I would be using Javascript so much.
Is there a way to sync it between a laptop and a desktop? Or at least certain plugins? i.e. To Do List.
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I've always wanted to try out Google's desktop, but running it on wine on my linux box just doesn't convince me enough. Google has been labelling themselves a "Digital Services Infrastructure Company" (Stahlman) and provide a good number of services accessible through a browser. I do understand that facilitating a desktop search requires native access to the platform making a completely browser based solution unsuitable or insecure. However, it would be nice to see Google at least provide a framework or API if not actually write a portable application usable across platforms. Gnome users would probably be banking on beagle performing the same roles and KDE users may have to wait a while before a strong equivalent (Tenor) comes in.
..?)
While it is true that Google doesn't seem to have put a foot wrong yet, I do notice that many of their applications (Picasa et al) seem to be tailored for Microsoft platforms. For the moment this is in line with their attempt in becoming an all-pervasive "digital infrastructure" company. I wonder if many GNU/Linux enthusiasts find it a bit frustrating not to be able to try out these applications (or am I missing a link somewhere
No Greater Friend, No Greater Enemy! (Lucius Cornelius Sulla)
I've seen several people comment -- usually negatively -- on the screen space this takes up. Perhaps they are unaware that you can tell the sidebar to autohide? I wouldn't use it otherwise on my laptop, but with that feature it's great!
Lol, the whole point of the program is for it to index your files so you can search them, just like with Beagle on Linux.
Slashdot has an RSS Feed for front page stories. I think they should add a second one for Google stories. It would look something like this:
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Slashdot : Google News, 24/7
http://www.googledot.org
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Google this, Google that, Google Google Google blah blah blah
en-CA
Copyright 2005
Wed, 02 Nov 2005 24:08:49 GMT-07:00
Wed, 02 Nov 2005 24:08:49 GMT-07:00
http://everythinggoogle.com
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
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Google Employees Go To Work
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Today at 9 AM Approximately 2800 Google Employees went to work. 200 called in sick. There was a traffic jam in the parking lot.
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Google
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Google Farts
At 12 PM today, Google Farted. (4500 comments thus far)
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Google (what else would it be)
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Slashdot's stupid lameness filter which is a piece of shit wouldnt let me post that properly. :( Then, it removed all of the XML tags, so it is just a bunch of text.
i used gd for a while, but it didn't find nearly as much stuff as X1 (which later became yahoo desktop). for example, it wouldn't index my gaim logs for some reason. i had to install some third party text plugin that ate the cpu like mad.
so i like the way gd works, in general, but i didn't like that it searched so little of my world. Y! desktop, on the other hand, is an ugly app, but man, it finds EVERYTHING.
as far as the sidebar, i just don't get what the fuss is about. y'all should check out konfabulator. it's amazingly cool and works the same on windows and the mac (i use both) and does all the stuff gd's sidebard does and a lot more and in much more open ended manner (transparent float mode is unbelievably useful).
in this age of communication i'm just not getting through
Slashdotters making uninformed opinions....well who would've thought?
Can you install the sidebar without having to install the desktop search component?
I had the original google desktop, and it slowed my system significantly...
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
Or maybe they've come to realize that autohide is the worst 'feature' ever. People who like it are rather braindamaged, as it always manages to work out just 'not quite right'.
Google has it right in their incorporation papers, they pledge to do the right thing. They are very open, letting others work with Google Maps and GMail for instance, not to mention Google Search.
They may think that's the point, but I don't want some extra app to search and index my computer - I'd like just to have their RSS modules - but in the previous version you couldn't disable it, and so i didn't use it. I suspect this one is no different.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
I've got to agree with you on the "simple tools" part. For years, I've wanted both a simple note pad/scratch pad and a simple todo list. No worrying about filling out the whole form, saving the files, or what color the "pad" is. Everyone wants to attach as many bells and whistles to their software as possible. Finally, someone just got it right.
"it's not about aptitude, it's the way you're viewed" - Galinda
How does this compare with Desktop Sidebar?
because I can search my shared Directories in my Home Network, and it looks better and I can customize it and it's faster and ... ok problem is Google Desktop Search is free, so my client is going to jump off and will demand installation of the free programm instead of the 70 bucks programm.
Maybe I just shouldn't tell him.
BTW the biggest change: the free enterprise edition can now search in shared directories.
http://www.x1.com/
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Netscape Sidebar! I can't believe what I am seeing!
Evil? What about censoring its search results to please the Chinese government?
Every screenshot of the stock widget shows Apple up. They also usually include PIXR, GOOG, and AMZN as gainers. When they include MSFT, it is always red :).
I REALLY like the new sidebar, but it eats up almost as much room as gAIM does. Does anyone know of a gAIM panel for the sidebar, so I can quickly view my buddy list?
>> Will it run on my NetBSD toaster? No - only on G-BSD!
"And BTW, they WILL do evil if that makes stocks go up!"
Aw crap. Does anybody but confused fourteen year olds with idle CEO fantasies actually believe this stuff? "They have no choice but to maximize profits."
And I guess Dilbert is entertaining because it represents a fantasy world with no relationship to our own. The market is perfect and right in all cases, as is corporate management which is also single-minded.
Nope. That's the cool thing about people. We have freedom of choice. I think companies like Google where the majority is still held by a couple of principals are in a better position to behave well, but even that isn't neccessary for a company to do the right thing.
Statements like that end up rationalizing bad behavior, as if it is always neccessary to maximize profit at all costs, and this is inexorable. That somehow if they don't, their competition will magically wipe them from the face of the earth by taking advantage of their momentary weakness.
It ain't so. People make various decisions, suffer the consequences, and survive. Businesses are even astonishingly incompetent, and still muddle along, because the market and their competitors are also less than perfect. An astonishing number of them are around because of "right place, right time" or similar luck alone.
Logically, this argument reduces to "If I didn't do it somebody else would have" and that dog don't hunt. (Obvious answer: "Yeah, but you're still the one who's going to get the chair.")
People get to act like people. We have the luxury of doing what we believe is right most of the time, making mistakes, or even acting badly, and living with the consequences. In fact, to argue otherwise is immoral, merely rationalizing bad behavior, unless we are truly no more than trustees at a concentration camp.
Assembly is the reverse of disassembly.
But the major problem for me was that *gasp* the searching wasn't very good. No seriously. Here's why:
In the end I gave up and installed Copernic which is far better. It is most definitely not perfect, for example, it can't just search everything (you have to specify files, emails, contacts etc.), the toolbar search isn't as useful as Google's (you can't just type something and your results start to appear in a menu), the IE and Firefox plugins don't actually search your desktop (only the web) and that there is no integrated search bar for Outlook (I do miss this).
However (and this is the big one), it re-index's far quicker and more often than Google and I can set it to re-index certain things (like my email) once every day which means that my results are always correct.
It wouldn't take much that GDS would need to change for me to revert back because I like the integrated search in Outlook and the toolbar - but the database inaccuracy means that its next to useless for the way I work.
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I present here an email from a friend of mine, edited only to change the names of the people involved:
I sent that email at work, as you know, and then
decided not to go in the following week. I phoned the director I sent the
mail to and said that I couldn't work with my boss anymore and that I wanted
to be made redundant. He negotiated with Clive and they agreed to make my
position redundant. So far so good.
Pete and I go to Dublin on the Thursday to meet up with some American
friends of ours and come back on the Saturday night to find that Clive has
HAND-DELIVERED a big A4 envelope. To cut a long story short, he'd installed
google desktop search on my PC before I arrived and this evil little piece
of software copies every single email and document you write and stores it
in a folder hidden to all but the PC administrator. So he goes into this
and finds my blog via an email. On it I have openly called him a cunt and
ridiculed him. I also have a whole category entitled 'Things that 'Tasha
Says' dedicated to the complete inanity of my colleague, Natasha. He has
studiously printed out all the offending pages as well as copies of emails
like the one I sent to you saying that the doctor thing was made up in that
last email I sent and accompanied the whole lot with a letter saying that
they were no longer making me redundant. Indeed I was being sacked for gross
misconduct. ACE. I console myself with the fact that I'd essentially quit
anyway.
I wish you were right about Google...
... everything.
More and more all my private life is scanned by google.
Google knows everything about me.
Via gmail they know who are my friends, where I work, what I do,
Via google search history they can even gather more informations, they can even guess when I was in front of my computer.
I don't wanna draw a dark picture, but they are gaining more and more access to our private life. What do they do whith all the data they collect ? Targeting advertisement ?
I really hope they have the best intentions and they only do that !
Because If a I were the CIA investigating somebody, google would be the first place to go to retrieve informations.
I'll put another question to you to answer yours-- Why would microsoft get into the gaming industry when two of the top players are more than happy to corner the market with their own games?
Because there is money to be made.
Why not BE the OS that seemlessly integrates into the web and lock in your customer base from the get-go? Really, it's not THAT outlandish. Microsoft did if with Windows before the web, Google is doing it with the web as we speak. It's a small move to take total possession of your PC at this point. Now to be honest, I don't think the public is ripe for this eventiality yet. it's a ways off. But totally unbelievable? Not by a long shot.
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In my gov agency the only reason they have not officially supported google desktop is due to not having paid support. With this, and the next version of XP not out yet I would bet that google is going to get a LOT of sales to med/large organizations that want desktop search and support for it.
Actually I tried Google Desktop awhile ago. I found it somewhat annoying and it seemed to slow my machine down. I guess I am in the minority - you folks must have lots more stuff to search than I do. I rarely find myself "searching" for my own stuff. Searching is something I do on the internet, and for that Google works just dandy. Do people really need this wonderful search capability to find things in their own files? What am I missing here? To keep things organized, I put my stuff in folders and give them descriptive names. Videos in My Videos, Music in My Music (artist folders beneath that), Pictures in My Pictures (year folders, then event folders beneath that), Documents in My Documents (project folders beneath that), etc. Yes, I sometimes use Outlook search for a particular email based on its content, though recently I have been getting better at creating folders and filing emails as well to minimize searching. It just seems to me that a far better solution to the problem is organizing your data in the first place.
The more you regulate a company, the worse its products become.
How wise is it to write personal attacks on coworkers from your corporate-purchased system? If you want to be vile in your ad hominem attacks, use your own hardware, your own email address, and DON'T DO IT OVER THE COMPANY NETWORK!
We think of PCs as our personal systems, but they are property of the company, not ours.
It's not a great idea to give vent to negative feelings about coworkers other than in the privacy of your own home anyway.
Also, if you post over https, I'm pretty sure there's a setting that blocks GD from indexing that content.....
Bummer about your friend's job.
Respectfully,
Anomaly
But Herr Heisenberg, how does the electron know when I'm looking?
I checked out the docs for enterprise but I'm unclear as to one point: can the users of the desktop application share an enterprise index, while keeping their own indices as well?
I'd like to have UserA and UserB index their own email, but also utilize a shared index on network shares to find pdf files etc.
That's a poignant confession. On the Mac, install QuickSilver for an unbelievably enlightening search experience.
(Any effort undertaken to Google search bar to OS X would be done by Sisyphus, indeed.)
Javascript is a much maligned language that is actually pretty powerful.
I've been toying around with XUL applications on Mozilla and have been learning alot about the power of the language.
I think it's humble beginnings have stereotyped it as a toy, while the reality is that it's extremely powerful and flexible.
The new ECMA 357 spec is pretty interesting, too.
"I guess, though, unlike most /monkeys I need an actual reason to hate a company, not just the fact that they are big..."
There is no reason to hate them, but a concern about their monopoly.
Now, contrary to e. g. Apple whose music monopoly is faded out by their "anti-monopoly" situation on MacOS, Google's is very visible...
Hervé
Herve S.
It's amazing to me that in this day and age Google Desktop does not allow the user to choose which XP partition to install it on. My problem is that when I install the program it chooses my C: partition, but once installed it does not leave enough free space to support XP's defrag program. Good thing the uninstall command works :-(
> the new VBA
More users... mostly bloody managers... creating horrible, unwieldy, unmaintainable, unstructured, badly thought out, crappy, "Mission critical", shiteware.
Some Bod: "You people know code, don't you ?".
Me: "Er... Yes"
Bod: "Can you support this 100,000 line steaming pile of ordure that Mr. Fuckke-Witte knocked up one morning, using only a 'Learn VBA in you Lunch Hour' book, and which now contains all the data required to keep the company afloat."
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!
VBA... The horror... The horror...
Sky subscribers are morons. They pay to be advertised at !
Why don't they just get one of the distributions like Mandriva or Red Hat and make their own version of Linux.
I think it might actually do well.
Also, its about time somebody developed a replacement for XFREE86 and built a "real" GUI environment for Linux that's not server/client based.
Michael "TheZorch" Haney
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Admittedly, I have not downloaded the new Google Desktop, but in the last two iterations of the Desktop Search tool, it wouldn't do a simple wild-card search! I don't know how other people search for files on their machines, but my memory for file names isn't that good, nor is my spelling, so I'd rather use plain old WinXP search, which can at least use wild-cards, no matter how slow it is to use. To me, that should be part of a search tool's primary functionality, and it is the reason I keep trying and uninstalling the Desktop Search everytime it comes out.
Google doesn't need or want to do an OS. The OS of the the future is a BYO (Bring You Own) party where any OS with a connection to the web will be able to access the services offered by google. Perhaps some OS's and or browsers will access these services better than others. For Google to do an OS would imply that they care about something other than their area of expertise. I suspect that this would only happen if Gates and Ballmer continue to piss them off.
The lesser of two evils is still evil...
The company I work for is filtering many of the google projects including the http://desktop.google.com/ and http://www.google.com/talk/! What is there to fear?
The search functionality of Google Desktop is great, but there still aren't enough sidebar plugins (at least not with the functionality that I'm looking for) for it to replace Desktop Sidebar on my workstation. There's a great deal of third-party plugin and skin development for it right now - a nifty little piece of software if you've got a big enough screen to be able to afford to give some up for a sidebar.
Google Desktop for me consists of the toolbar entry only, which is still a damn fine way to search through all my e-mail, Trillian logs, files, etc. Saved my ass more than once. I'll be watching plugin development for the sidebar with interest.
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I would use this tool MUCH more often if it didn't have trouble with archived folders in Outlook. I get tons of mail so I have an Outlook AutoArchive every 14 days. (since I have an exchange server I don't have any other mail client options fwiw) However, when the mail is autoarchived and moved to a different folder, Google will show a search result but not actually link to it since it has moved, and I have to manually search for it by date. I haven't tried this new version but my wishlist would include options to re-index every night or something like that.
Wow. You, sir, understand my pain. Your precise description of what's happening to me makes it feel a little better.
The Kat Desktop Search Engine
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
--Aristotle
The application was not bad, it just crashed my computer anytime I left it up overnight.
An application crashed your whole computer... and that's not bad? The last application I found that could accidentally crash my OS was years ago. Ouch, it still sucks to be a Windows user I guess.
Try
http://desktop.google.co.uk/
stop 5 minutes and take a look at Bill Gates 60.000+ SqFt house outside Seattle
Wow, real estate prices have REALLY soared in Seattle, haven't they? Tsk tsk tsk, poor multi-million bastard, should just come up to Canada where land is so cheap it's a steal. (Um, from the natives....)
Yup, 20% time. If you think about it, that's every Friday or everyone Monday if you want it to be.
In addition to "time" given on your pet project, Google staff will also get to use Google's servers and database of wealth and other google goodies to AID their pet projects. And if it sounds sufficiently cool enough, you can get your co-workers to user their 20% time on it. So essentially you can have a full-time team you know and trust, using Google Goodies to do something you think is awesome fun.
;_; I want to work for google one day. Hopefully they'll still be the kindly giant that they are now...
Either it's free or not. How is a non-free Linux derivative going to do in the market, and how are Linux users going to deal with that?
Why would I want this? So I can have another big company tracking my computer use habits? It sounds like all the functionality of this could be handled with my browser's Favorites menu. The article touts that I "can track my credit card transactions in real time". Seriously, what use is that? I check the weather before I go out in the morning. Does it change so fast that I continuously need it on my desktop? Google's site lists these as the top 5 plugins: A todo list, iTunes controller, a customizable clock, a system monitor and "Adsense Status".
Hmmm, maybe this is a killer app?
Here are my 2cents for Google, plug-in for Outlook Express Allow to search easy, close interface to Google Outlook plug-in. http://www.esanu.name/programs/
Yes but...
I thought that I had conceded that point in my initial statment.
Notice that the law does not define that duty as exclusive to all others, and in fact the quoted example uses the phrase "with a view to" which isn't exactly strong language. Thus that duty is not to make the most money possible at all possible (other) costs, as is the usual argument I am disputing.
The best support for my argument would be the rarity of civil suits based on _duty to make money_ laws. As far as I can tell, it happens very rarely. For example, are the shareholders even going after Enron or MCI's execs? I don't think so (although I admit I am not certain) yet they are egregious violators. This tells me that obeying conscience and the law in executing the duty to make money for the shareholders won't be prosecuted either.
Assembly is the reverse of disassembly.