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Google Desktop Gadget Designer, contest
Last week, to not very much fanfare, Google released Google Desktop Gadget Designer, a full-fledged Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Google Desktop sidebar widgets. Er, gadgets. Gadget Designer features a drag-and-drop interface design ...
Google outbids Microsoft for Dell bundling deal
CNet's Tom Krazit is reporting that Google has outbid Microsoft for a bundling deal that will put Google's software on new Dell PCs, which I'm sure is causing some grumpiness in Redmond. In what is rumored to have been a billion-dollar deal, Dell ...
Google Desktop Gadget winners announced
Back in July I posted about the Google Desktop Gadget Designer and a contest sponsored by Google for makers of gadgets, a.k.a. widgets. Yesterday, at long last, Google announced the contest's winners. The supreme ultimate winners, who will take home ...
Google Desktop's novel approach to the readme
Say you've written a program that a lot of people will use. Say you really, really don't want them to mess with certain of the program's files. You could give them a readme file that contains a warning, but any developer knows that getting the user ...
New features for Google Calendar
Google Calendar got a few nice new features this week. Most interesting, I think, is new functionality that lets you display your entire Google Calendar directly on your web site simply by pasting a bit of HTML into your source code. The embedded ...
Google Trends, Co-op, Notebook, and Desktop 4 at Google Press Day
Google made a number of big(ish) announcements at yesterday's Google Press Day, but isn't that what Press Day is for? The biggest, or at least most fun, announcement was Google Trends, a new project at Google Labs that gives you pretty Alexa-like ...
Google Desktop 2.0 Beta Available
Aside from the occasional misstep, Google seems to always impress me. I have been a strong proponent of desktop search tools for quite some time, recommending at various times X1, Copernic Desktop Search, and later Yahoo Desktop Search (a free ...
Google Voice desktop app keeps your SMS and Voicemail handy
With Google Voice now able to take over the voicemail from your mobile number, there are more reasons than ever to keep your Google Voice messages close at hand. There's cross-platform Google Voice desktop app that does just that, giving you quick ...
Desktop Sidebar - A Google and Vista Alternative - Today's Mod
In all the excitement over Google Desktop's and Windows Vista's sidebars, a really great sidebar that has been around for literally years seems to be getting overlooked. It's a free Windows application named simply Desktop Sidebar. Desktop Sidebar ...
Google to show off Chrome OS Thursday, release it in 2010
Remember that rumor last week about how Google was going to unveil the first beta release of its upcoming Chrome operating system this week? Yeah, it's looking like that's not going to happen. But the company is holding an event Thursday morning to ...
Google Desktop released for Linux
Google has released a version of Google Desktop for Linux. While the PC version of this software includes a gadget engine, Google Desktop for Linux, like the relatively new Google Desktop for Mac is pretty much just a desktop search engine. Google ...
New Google Sidebar and Gadgets for Google Desktop 5
Google has been flogging its developers with wet noodles ramping up development to make your desktop more functional with the release of Google Desktop 5. The team at Google have been busy working on ways to pipe more information through Google ...
Google releases Desktop 4.5
Google has refreshed the design of the recent 4.5 release of Google Desktop. The design is a lot cleaner with the integration of a little transparency. With this new release, your personalized content seems to flow and fit in much better on your ...
Install Google Desktop gadgets in iGoogle
Google has been offering two different types of gadgets (or what the rest of the world calls widgets) for a while now. You could install tiny applications on your desktop using Google Desktop. Or you could install them in a personalized Google ...
Google not happy with Microsoft's desktop search concessions
Earlier this week Microsoft promised to make some changes to the desktop search feature in Windows Vista. The move came in response to a complaint filed by Google that alleged Vista's desktop search was anti-competitive and caused computers to run ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
