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Saturday, November 18
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Posted by Harish on Saturday, November 18, 2006
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I have been using Google Desktop for some time, although not all, I find some of its features really useful. No doubt, when you talk about Google, search comes in first. The advantage with the Google Desktop search is that it lets you search for a phrase all through your computer and it’s real fast. The overall feel is similar to the Google Web search, which we are so much used to. Apart from the robust search, Google Desktop comes with some useful goodies:
1. Quick Search Box
The Quick Search Box lets you search your computer, launch programs in the Start Menu or access control panel applets quickly. For those of you who would like to get things done without taking hands of the keyboard, pressing Ctrl key twice calls the Quick Search Box. I find this feature especially useful, saves you a lot of time. The Quick Search Box also let’s you type in a web page address, it opens a browser window and takes you there.
2. Google Desktop Search Results
The search results are sorted by date by default. This could be changed to Sort by relevance to match the Google Web search results listing. The search results page includes every type of item that Google has found on your desktop relevant to your search: files, emails, web pages, chats, contacts, appointments, tasks, notes and journal entries.
The search has a files link to search for something in a file. The search could be further filtered to search on specific file types.
3. Search on more than one computer
With most of us using more than one computer these days, Google desktop search could be set to retrieve results from all of them. It is required that Google Desktop be installed on your other computers as well and the Search Across Computers preference enabled. The contents of all these computers are synched through a Google Account. The searchable content is transmitted to one of Google’s servers; this lets you search on the other computer even while the other computer is offline.
4. Timeline
How many times have you lost out unable to recollect what you were doing after a weekend’s break? Google Desktop keeps track of all that you have done on your computer. You could simply select a date and get a list of all documents you would have worked on, sites you have visited or even songs you might have been listening to on that day.
5. Content Recovery
Imagine a situation wherein you were looking for an important mail and you find that your mail server has gone down for some reasons and you are unable to retrieve the mail. With Google Desktop around, you could run a search and retrieve the information from the cache. If you accidentally delete an important document, Google Desktop keeps the file contents in its cache; you could take out the contents from there.
Google Desktop lets you add Gadgets to monitor mails in Gmail or keep track of news, weather, stock etc. I personally wouldn’t want use these, as they tend to take too much system resources, utilizing just what you need is a balanced compromise.
Source: http://desktop.google.com/features.html
Download: http://desktop.google.com
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