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Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

vikcc — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:00:13 -0000

it's very useful for my computer!
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Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Zain — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:17:34 -0000

Gmail and Media Player gadgets are the most helpful !!

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Tommy Hobbes — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:11:07 -0000

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."

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

serena — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:57:13 -0000

Google needs to get its act together and support Vista 64. Itâ€™s been 2 years nowâ€¦..

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Evan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:22:59 -0000

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.

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

alice — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:54:24 -0000

Nice Post and surely Iâ€™ll install Google Desktop today unless it uses up too much resourcesâ€¦..

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

hardkoretom — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:33:31 -0000

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.

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

meman — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:37:45 -0000

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.

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Logan — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:26:29 -0000

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?

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Itai — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:47:15 -0000

"360â€™s brower" ???

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

smoker — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:06:55 -0000

Wow dude, I think you might be onto somethign here.

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Steave — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:48:37 -0000

Google needs to get its act together and support Vista 64. Itâ€™s been 2 years nowâ€¦.

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Matthew — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:59:21 -0000

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?

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Joe the plumber — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:52:51 -0000

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.)

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Bart — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:38:18 -0000

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.

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Arturo Delgado — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:12:56 -0000

System resources, eats them up.
No x64.

I'm good with quicksilver

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Jackie Woods — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:00:50 -0000

Wow dude, I think you might be onto somethign here.

jess
www.privacy.de.tc

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Matthew Mancino — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:27:13 -0000

Thanks for pointing that out. I swear it wasn't on the link I looked at yesterday.

Regards,
Matthew

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

eXa — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:41:55 -0000

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

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

justbe — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:34:53 -0000

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!

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

dave — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:18:59 -0000

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..

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

GERARD — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:49:16 -0000

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!

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Mark — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:49:53 -0000

Google media server has some great value to it. I'll check it out.

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Gadget Sleuth — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 10:34:31 -0000

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.

Re: 5 Reasons to Install Google Desktop Today

Harrison — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:20:36 -0000

OSX for the win.