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Google Desktop for the Mac Arrives
by , 6:00 AM EDT, April 4th, 2007
Google officially unveiled a Mac version of its Google Desktop application on Wednesday. Google Desktop is an application that searches the contents of your hard drive, Gmail account, and integrates with Web searches as well.
It is a Universal Binary, allowing it to run natively on PowerPC and Intel-based Macs, searches file contents and metadata, recognizes Spotlight plug-ins so it can search for the same information that Tiger's built-in search feature does, maintains a searchable Web history, and takes snapshots of text documents so they can be recovered if accidentally deleted.
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Google Desktop for the Mac is free, and is currently available as a public beta. It can be downloaded at the Google Desktop Web site.
Observer Comments
Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:16 pm Subject: Any faster than Spotlight?
Hey gopher, no reason to "ache for the days of Find File." There is still a Find menu item in the Finder that works pretty much the way the classic Mac OS version worked. And you can search the whole computer or even servers.
(Not that it wouldn't be nice if Spotlight could do the same.)
Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:51 pm Subject: Re: find in file menu
QuoteAnonymous wrote:
I run 10.4.9 as you do and in the finder menu go to File/Find or fro the finder use command F
Well, your directions weren't very clear. First you said, "There is still a Find menu item in the Finder..," then you said, "...in the finder menu go to File/Find.." The first implies it's in the Finder Menu, and the second says both, "finder" and "File". It is in the File Menu when the Finder is active.
Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:42 am Subject: the fix for returning "Find" back to Panther defau
just a little page that shows how you can return the Command F or "Find" feature back to how it worked in pre-tiger and the classic MacOS. it will save you a ton of time.
http://snipurl.com/1fdcn
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