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Desktop grows up
November 3, 2005
Posted by Satish Sampath, Google Desktop Team
We always get a bit misty-eyed when a youngster graduates, so today we're dabbing back a few tears for
Google Desktop
, which leaves beta status behind with several powerful new features under its belt.
Fans of
Google Maps
will want to check out Sidebar's new maps panel, which lets you do all the usual cool maps stuff -- local business info, directions, sightseeing -- plus a new one: finding new locations relevant to the web pages and emails you're reading and showing them in your maps panel.
Like this:
Geeks, meanwhile, are invited to pore over our
script support
for writing plug-ins, which makes it far easier to create home-brewed Sidebar panels. And Sidebar has a bunch of new
third- party panels
, most notably GDTunes, which cycles through your iTunes collection (and even shows album covers).
Finally, let me invite developers and anyone else who's interested to check out our new
Google Desktop blog
for the latest news and info.
We've worked hard raising Desktop over the past two years. It's great to see it growing up so nicely.
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