I have started to use Google Desktop. This tool has some really cool features to offer. First thing is amazing search capabilities. Just like the web, you can search across your emails, files, music files, videos etc. And it gives you instant results. It does the indexing for all your files on the PC and frees you from having to manually organize your files and emails. Google Desktop also gets integrated with Outlook and you can use it apart from the outlook search feature.
Apart from really powerful search support, it also provides you lot of free gadgets which can be used. Using these gadgets, you can view your mails, listen to music, and check the weather and stock situations. It also provides gadgets for MSN integration and so on. You can use the gadget for Orkut and see Orkut birthday reminders. There are so many gadgets available with Google Desktop. You can explore each one of them if you want.
In short, this is really a cool tool to have on your PC. Also, the sidebar gives you feeling of Longhorn. You can have floating bar if required. You can switch to google online features if required from the desktop. So, what are you waiting for? Just download the tool from the desktop and install on your PC. I am sure that we will see lot of new and awesome features in the Google Desktop in future.
Cheers,
Amol
