I was excited for a second when I saw #5... then I realized it did not work with Xbox 360. Media Center = Vomit.
Bart
· 11 months ago
Dude, try orb for your 360. I use it to stream movies, music, and pictures to my Wii... All you do is install it on your home computer, navigate to mycast.orb.com on your 360's brower and Voila! your streaming content from your home PC..... Not going to go into detail about hooking up the DVR or DVD recorder here but you get the idea.
Itai
· 11 months ago
"360’s brower" ???
Matthew Mancino
· 11 months ago
Total bummer that GDT won't work with Windows XP.
Matthew Mancino
· 11 months ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I swear it wasn't on the link I looked at yesterday.
Regards, Matthew
brainpicker
· 11 months ago
I'm a huge Google addict, I've been drinking the Goolaid for years and use or have at some point used almost every Big G product out there. But I must admit I was over Desktop fairly quickly when I first tried it out a while ago. And reading this, I was at first ready to go on one of my enough-with-the-Windows-only rants about some of those GDS extras. But then I realized that, between Spotlight and Time Machine, OS Leopard has all that stuff covered implicitly. Which, come to think of it, is probably why Desktop never really grew on me.
Harrison
· 11 months ago
OSX for the win.
drdr
· 11 months ago
hi
Jesse Liebman
· 11 months ago
I've never really seen the point in Google Desktop. All these things could be accomplished with efficient file management. The one benefit I see is having that fool proof saving system of uploading to Google Docs. Google media server sounds like a relatively cool idea too, but I'm unsure how many people actually use this system?
Zx
· 11 months ago
Google needs to get its act together and support Vista 64. It's been 2 years now...
GERARD
· 11 months ago
this is true. i thought Google was better than that! I have a new Acer 8920 laptop that"s 64-bit. Google is slipping alittle!
Evan
· 11 months ago
Doesn't make any sense to me, either. 64-bit OS's are only becoming more and more popular. I'm using Vista x64 on both my home and work computers.
Stajo
· 11 months ago
I don't use google desktop because, it needs too much memory( less than Windows side panel though),you can use Google Gears to launch Docs from your desktop. There is also an option in Google chrome that lets you create shortcuts for internet applications(they look the same as website's favicon) and put them on Windows desktop, so they will look like a standard OS applications( I put such shortcut for Gmail on my quick launch bar). You even can create a shortcut for Facebook but it doesnt look so good.
justbe
· 11 months ago
I do the same and i change some of the shitty looking icons at converticon.com then I drop them in rocket dock with the stacks plugin. checkit out!
Gadget Sleuth
· 11 months ago
Ick....toolbars or memory resident things like this in general are dinosaurs, IMHO, that eat up too much memory for the actual purpose they serve.
Mark
· 11 months ago
Google media server has some great value to it. I'll check it out.
dave
· 11 months ago
google desktop is arguably the product from google that receives the worst support - go look at desktop forums and groups from google...notice that they *never* reply? it took them nearly 4 months to respond to mac issues with spotlight hooks from other apps (e.g. mailtags) that were causing crashes...
file caching is nice, but is it worth crippling your system for this level of utility? perhaps you could write a more intelligent article that says, very clearly, how GDS is better than Spotlight or integrated Windows desktop search - and leave out Gmail search as that bears little relevance to 'the desktop' (as in, local drive comparison only)
i think that you will then find a load of folks yawning, waiting for gds to finish indexing and then wondering what on earth they've just installed...for mac users, i truly do not see the point..
eXa
· 11 months ago
Now you should create a topic named 5 reason to never install google desktop, I talking about privacy and that google can know anything they want about your computer and you
Jackie Woods
· 11 months ago
Wow dude, I think you might be onto somethign here.
I agree with Gadget Sleuth. No reason to install bloatware from *any* company! (I'm not just Google-bashing here, I won't install this crap from Microsoft, Yahoo, etc.)
Matthew
· 11 months ago
Anyone else having problems with the link to download GDT? I click and nothing happens. I submitted this to Google. Are they good about getting back to you?
Steave
· 11 months ago
Google needs to get its act together and support Vista 64. It’s been 2 years now….
smoker
· 11 months ago
Wow dude, I think you might be onto somethign here.
Logan
· 11 months ago
Why won't I ever install Google Desktop? Google already tracks all of our searches and the sites we go to. Do you really want them to index all of the files on your computer? Privacy anyone?
meman
· 11 months ago
Well, here's one reason why shouldn't ever installed Google Desktop in a corporate environment with an MS Exchange. GD will try and index all your mails on the exchange server, maxing out connections and causing traffic issues.
We keep having to literally slap users for using this tosh collection of bandwidth wasting utils.
ahh, it was posted by a woman.. there's your answer.
hardkoretom
· 11 months ago
2. File Versioning
Google Desktop creates cached copies of your files on the fly, making it an easy way to find a previous or accidentally deleted version of your document.
Have you ever heard of shadow copy? its available for windows all the way back to windows 98, and you dont have google spying on your computer.
alice
· 11 months ago
Nice Post and surely I’ll install Google Desktop today unless it uses up too much resources…..
serena
· 11 months ago
Google needs to get its act together and support Vista 64. It’s been 2 years now…..
Tommy Hobbes
· 11 months ago
And one reason not to: with Google Desktop installed, they get access to even more of your information. If you work for a big company, and you ask your IT if it's cool to get Google Desktop, the folks who want to ensure your company IP is kept confidential will say "please don't."
Zain
· 11 months ago
Gmail and Media Player gadgets are the most helpful !!
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Regards,
Matthew
file caching is nice, but is it worth crippling your system for this level of utility? perhaps you could write a more intelligent article that says, very clearly, how GDS is better than Spotlight or integrated Windows desktop search - and leave out Gmail search as that bears little relevance to 'the desktop' (as in, local drive comparison only)
i think that you will then find a load of folks yawning, waiting for gds to finish indexing and then wondering what on earth they've just installed...for mac users, i truly do not see the point..
jess
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No x64.
I'm good with quicksilver
We keep having to literally slap users for using this tosh collection of bandwidth wasting utils.
ahh, it was posted by a woman.. there's your answer.
Google Desktop creates cached copies of your files on the fly, making it an easy way to find a previous or accidentally deleted version of your document.
Have you ever heard of shadow copy? its available for windows all the way back to windows 98, and you dont have google spying on your computer.
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