New Google Software: 13 Free Downloads that You're Gonna Love by James Bradley
IIf you've not downloaded the newest free software bundle from Google yet, then you've gotta read this... This package includes the latest powerful tools with countless features that will benefit you in a number of ways. There's text, photo, music, and video applications, programs that address... This version claims to launch up to 50% faster than Reader 6.0 OPTIONAL SOFTWARE -- Google Talk is a voice & IM application that allows you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free.

The Upcoming Battle for Your Desktop: Microsoft Vs Google (Part 1) by Marcelo Reyes
While the great majority of the community waits and waits for the latest version of Windows (Windows Vista) to be released, there is a group of people that have their eyes set on another information giant: Google. You may now ask yourself: What is it that brings these two huge companies together? ... After that came the famous “Google Toolbar”, with more tools to help improve our searches on the Internet, followed by Google Earth and the Google pack which came with everything an average user would need in a computer: Photo utilities, messenger with Google Talk, Firefox (navigator),...

How To Search Your PC With Google Desktop by Nowshade Kabir
In this era of Internet, most people are frequent users of computers. Many of us use computers through out the day, accumulating morasses of information in various formats, which include email, digital photo, word document, spreadsheet, presentation file, ebook, article, other downloaded... Privacy question By default, Google Desktop Search collects a limited amount of non-personal information from your computer and sends it to Google. ... On your system tray you will see a swirled icon in Google colors, by clicking on it you will open the regular Google search page with the...

Digital Photographic Images - Part 2: How to Store Them by Robin Henry
If you are going to download images onto your computer, you need to design some type of filing system that will help you remember when and where you took the photos. This might seem a bit silly at first, but believe me, when you get to the stage where you have 6,000 images, it can be messy... If you visit the Google site go to the right of the horizontal menu under the Google logo and select "More ...". ... Here's what I do with my images: When I first download them from my camera I view and delete any imperfect images so as not to retain files that aren't worth keeping Next I file...

Explore the Earth from Home by Jesse Somer
I was over at a friend’s house the other day and on his computer he showed me his own house as viewed by a satellite in Earth’s orbit. It was awesome. The screen started out looking at our great blue planet, then he typed in his house’s address (he had programmed it in, as only the USA, UK, and... The only problem you may have is that your computer may not be powerful enough to handle the software or 3-D graphics capability. ... All you need to do is point and click your computer’s mouse on any spot (address unnecessary), and it’s free.

Google Desktop Manual by Cedric Price
Google released the first version of their Desktop application back in 2004. This program allows you to instantly search your computer for specific content, just like you would normally search the web using google.com. It looks in your email messages, chat logs, media content, zipped archives... -under: - allows you to restrict the folders in which Google Desktop will search -machine: - if you are using Google Desktop to search through several computers connected in one network, with the machine operator, you can specify a single computer to look into.

Search Engines: Desktops Wanted by Merle Stinnett
Search engines are no longer content with being contained to the web. They want your desktop, too. If you've always wanted the power of a search engine inside your computer, desktop search applications were made just for you. Many of the major search engines have created desktop search... The major players in this arena are: 1) Google Desktop: http://desktop.google.com/ Search your computer's files, audio, video, images and emails, and even the Web. ... If you've been wanting an easy way to find files on your computer, you've got to download one of these powerful software applications.

Working Together: Your Music, Movies, Photos on Your iPod, Cell Phone & PDA by Mike Valentine
Electronic device manufacturers and content producers have got to back away from the forest and see the light filtering throught the trees. Consumers want to control the content they purchase and want to be able to use their electronic devices together without restrictions placed on them. ... It seems that I can only move digital movies from the Tivo to my computer (which I found I could do with free Tivo Desktop software when I called Tivo customer support.) So instead of recording directly from my Tivo to my Pioneer DVD recorder, I have to move the movie over to my computer via Tivo...

What are Viruses and Spyware? by Carlos Cabezas
A question I am often asked is “What is the difference between viruses and spyware?” so I thought I would give a brief primer here as well as some tips to get rid of them. Viruses Viruses install themselves on your computer and then try to propagate, that is, spread to other computers. ... Once it gets on your computer, Spyware tries to collect information about what you are doing on your computer. ... For example, if you want to read news you can go to google.com, click on news and get a plethora of news all while staying on google’s own site.

Now You Can Create Your Own Desktop Icon! by Paul I Etkin
There are some people who put as much effort into customizing their computer desktops as they do into decorating the tops of their desks or even rooms. I have personally seen friends of mine spend hours looking for the perfect desktop icon which reference some show or other that they used to... Like any other program, the desktop icon creator software can be found in either free or trial versions (just google it), so it not that difficult to get hold of and start using. ... There was even a mystery machine desktop icon with little rolling wheels that informed me when the computer was...