Today is Technology Tuesday!!

Have you heard of Google Desktop? Google Desktop indexes the files on your PC so you can use the power of Google Search on your PC.

Here are some of the items you’ll be able to do full text searches on after installing Google Desktop and letting it index your PC:

• email
• files
• music
• photos
• chats
• Gmail
• web pages that you’ve viewed
• more…

It provides an extremely nice, advanced search, easy to learn and easy to use:

Google Desktop also comes with Google Gadgets, Sidebar, and Deskbar:

Here are some Google Gadgets. You can add as many as you like through the Add Gadgets Interface:

Google Deskbar:

Google’s Add Gadgets Interface

Google Sidebar:

And finally one of the best features you have to use if you’re an Outlook user, Google Search Outlook Integration:

Out of all these features I prefer Google Desktop Search and Outlook Integration. After playing around with the Gadgets, Sidebar and Deskbar I find them annoying and in the way. But, that’s just me.

The Google Desktop Search alone is a must have. You can turn it off (unload) when you’re not using it. When you know you’re going to be away from your computer for an extended period of time, fire it up and let it index automagically in the background. Cool Beans!!

Download Google Desktop here.