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desktop.google.com - 1/13/2009

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Quick Search Box: Google's Take on Popular Mac App, Quicksilver
Wired: Epicenter — ... familiar to anyone who’s used the popular Mac application, Quicksilver. There’s a very good reason for Quick Search Box’s resemblance to Quicksilver — Quicksilver’s creator, Nicholas Jitkoff, is one of the programmers behind Google’s new Quick Search Box. Before digging into what Quick Search Box offers, it’s worth answering the obvious question: how is this different from Google’s existing search tool in Google Desktop for Mac? The answer is that Quick Search is like a stripped down version ...

Quicksilver Is (Sort Of) Dead! Long Live Google Quick Search Box!
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Google Calendar gadget for Google Desktop Released
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google Calendar gadget for Google Desktop is released, that features a cleaner interface, fully supports Google Apps calendars, and includes three different viewing modes. You can now – just click on an event to see details, including a map of the location, a list of attendees, and start and end times. Also, you can easily create new events as well, by clicking the “Add event” link. The Calendar gadget runs with the latest Linux, Mac, and Windows. ...

Ten Super-Duper Free Tools
Technologizer — ... , too, because it not only does smart searches of file contents, it also lets you launch the program associated with the file. The downside? It’s ad sponsored. Of course, I’ll get a ton of e-mail if I don’t mention Google Desktop, even though I don’t like the way it displays search results in a browser. ...

Exalead Desktop Search: Indexing Without The Excess [WebWorkerDaily]
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