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    Google Desktop Search gets personal

    It's that time again, when Google unleash something new to the world, and everybody is compelled to try it out. This time it's the new version of their Desktop Search facility, which has a host of new personalisations.
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    I have installed the system monitor plugin and removed most of the other panels. I'm not sure I'll find it useful in a week's time. It's like a lot of things that I use already, but all in one place, and it's not like the other means of accessing that information is at all cumbersome as far as I'm concerned.

    Nonetheless it is at the very least a nifty bit of kit.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PrivatePyle
    Yeah I forgot to mention i removed every panel apart from weather one before downloading system monitor.

    Plugins are limited at moment, but im sure more will come out.

    A winamp one, and a bbc news one would be good, or a rss news reader.
    There IS an RSS news reader (pretty much.) "Web picks" will pick up RSS feeds from sites you visit and you can add your own. Still, not quite how I like it.

    A winamp plugin would be nice I guess, but I can't really see it enriching my life in any way.

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    Further to my comments in the HEXUS.news story, now that indexing is complete, the three (oh no, four, it seems) Google related processes in my task list take up less than half the memory they did previously.
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    Can you make the sidebar auto-hide?

    I'm liking the indexing idea but I'm not too sure about the other bits.

    EDIT - Found it now.

    A lot of the stuff it does I use konfabulator widgets for and they look a lot nicer.

    I'll give it a few days to see if I actually find any use for it.
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    A brilliant idea for turning all your personal preferences over to Google... hmm.
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    Well, I'm giving it a whirl. Not sure how much of this I'm actually going to be using though.

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