Google Desktop

Well, I'm not sure if I was supposed to download Google Desktop with the last assignment and play with that as well. I finally decided to give Desktop another try. I had downloaded it a while back, but didn't really like the way that it took up so much room on my computer and it seemed to run really slow and take forever to load any of the gadgets. I still haven't gotten it to load my new email yet, it says it is still indexing. Last time I got it to show me new email for a day, then it wouldn't load any more new email. Hopefully I won't have the same problem, since that is half the reason I got rid of it last time.

I do like that with the new version you can "Auto Hide" the sidebar so it isn't always taking up space on your desktop. I also like that you can drag the gadgets out of the sidebar and have them anywhere you want on your desktop. I'm not sure if you could do that with the last version, but I like that I can do it with this one since I really don't want it all on the side of my desktop, I wanted it at the bottom.

I actually used the desktop search feature yesterday because my wife was looking for some pictures we had taken that I knew I had uploaded from the camera to the computer. I just typed in ".jpg" and it pulled up every picture that I had on the computer that was a jpeg. It only took me another couple minutes from there to find the photos she was looking for. I was surprised to find that we have over 1,500 photos on my computer. I think this could be a great little tool to have, if it ever finishes indexing everything on my computer.

I will keep y'all posted as to how this works out for me.