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Google Desktop 4 beta

Google Desktop 4 beta is less clunky than its predecessor and we love the zippy search and creative Sidebar Gadgets. Still, we're wary of handing over our computing habits to Google's servers.

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Google Desktop (Beta)

With Google Desktop, you can search for files on your hard drive just as easily as you can search the Internet.

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Yahoo Desktop Search (beta)

Although still in public beta, we have great expectations for Yahoo Desktop Search, and we like the features we've seen thus far.

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Google Desktop Search Beta

Google has joined the burgeoning desktop search market with a public beta. We've had a day or so to play with it -- here's our initial report.

Writely beta

Can Writely replace Microsoft Word? Yes, if you have stable Internet access and don't need a ton of editing and formatting features.

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Microsoft to bring Hotmail onto the desktop

Microsoft has started beta testing software that will take its Web e-mail onto the desktop.

Microsoft Office heads to the browser

After years of questioning the value of net-based productivity applications, Microsoft confirmed overnight that it would offer new versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that can run from within a standard web browser.

Don't shoot Microsoft's new Messenger

The latest release of Windows Live Messenger beta adds some cool new features, but only if all your friends are using it too.

Google takes another swing at desktop search

Google launched a new beta version of its desktop search tool that features updated Web navigation software and an innovative tool-bar.

Adobe blasts Apollo into beta through AIR

Adobe Systems on Monday released a beta version of AIR, a software download formerly called Apollo, that makes Web-native applications operate like desktop programs.

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Beta, Desktop, Microsoft DIYs and How-to

DIY: Desktop buying guide

What you need to know -- from finding the type of PC that fits your lifestyle to catching up on all of the latest trends.

Find files faster

Hard-disk real estate is so plentiful and cheap now, finding what we really want or need among the gigabytes of detritus is becoming an issue. We look at some popular programs to banish your file finding nightmares.

How to store your files online

Six options for sharing, backing up and storing your files online.

100 tips to speed up your software

Do more faster with these amazingly useful shortcuts.

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Beta, Desktop, Microsoft image galleries

Inside Windows Vista beta 2

We take a detailed look at the features of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, which include improved security options, "gadgets" and integrated search.
Photos: Google Desktop 2.0 at a glance

Google plans to add more features when it finalises this desktop search tool and content portal. Here's what it looks like so far.
How to Install Microsoft Office 2007

Here's what you should know before you invite the new Office onto your hard drive.
Inside Opera 9

While we really do like Opera 9, we like it more as the cool, cutting-edge browser that it is, and not as an everyday workhorse for the Internet.
Photos: Ulead PhotoImpact 11

The newest version of Ulead PhotoImpact retains many of the strengths of its predecessors but disappoints on a few counts.