#GOOGLE APP FOR MAC DESKTOP MAC OS#
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If not on auto-hide, by default the sidebar will always take up about 1/6 – 1/9 of the screen (depending on the screen resolution), and other windows are forced to resize. Like the Windows Taskbar, the Google Desktop sidebar can be set to Auto-Hide mode, where it will only appear once the user moves the mouse cursor towards the side where it resides.

Google Talk – If Google Talk is installed, double clicking the window title will dock it to the user's sidebar.

Web Clips – shows updated content from RSS and Atom web feeds.

Weather – shows the current weather for a location specified by the user.

The News panel is personalized depending on the type of news you read.

News – shows the latest headlines from Google News, and how long ago they were written.

Photos – displays a slideshow of photos from the 'My Pictures' folder (address can be changed).

Scratch Pad – here the user can store notes they are saved automatically.Email – a panel which lets one view their own Gmail messages.

The Sidebar comes pre-installed with the following gadgets: The Sidebar is available on the Windows and Linux versions of Google Desktop. Īs of January 2008, Google Desktop featured the following functionality:Ī prominent feature of the Google Desktop is the Sidebar, which holds several common Gadgets and resides off to one side of the desktop. As this was the goal of Google Desktop, the product will be discontinued'. People now have instant access to their data, whether online or offline. The reason given was that 'In the last few years, there’s been a huge shift from local to cloud-based storage and computing, as well as the integration of search and gadget functionality into most modern operating systems. In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products, including Google Desktop. It allowed text searches of a user's email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and the ability to display 'Google Gadgets' on the user's desktop in a Sidebar.

#GOOGLE APP FOR MAC DESKTOP MAC OS#

Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems.

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