Google released Google Desktop for the Mac this past Tuesday and it piqued my interest. The first question is why would I want Google desktop when I have Spotlight? The immediate answers to that are:
easily repeat a search on the Internet after doing a desktop search
include a GMail account in the index (but only one [...]
I’ve been using SearchMash (www.searchmash.com) for a week or so. It’s a nice clean ad-free search site. In addition to websites it returns images, blogs, Video and Wikipedia links. If you use Firefox you can add it to the search tool by selecting the dropdown in the tool and select Add SearchMash.
Google’s name doesn’t appear [...]
When I started working on the Thunderbird Mail posting I figured I’d have a lot of screen shots. So I decided to try using a Picasa web album to host them. I’d already installed the Picasa plug-in for iPhoto. I took the screen shots as I was doing the install and I put placeholders [...]
Nothing big happening on The OS Quest this week. Did some researching and stuck my toe in some areas. So let’s recap and see if i can decide where to go next.
