The Wonderful World of Google Software and Services Free Software and Google Mobile Services Vangie Beal
Free Google Software and Google Mobile Services
Google Desktop
Google Desktop is a desktop search application that provides full text search over your e-mail, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, Web pages that you've viewed and more. The latest version of Desktop also includes Google gadgets — interactive mini-applications that can be anything from games to search tools to media players, and they can be any shape and size. You can also create your own gadgets in addition to using the ready-made ones.
Google's Picasa is a free software download that helps to instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your computer. It also offers easy to use one-click editing tools and options.
Google Pack is a managed collection of free Google (and some non-Google) software for your desktop PC. This pack contains a selection of Google software that includes Google Earth, Picasa, Google Pack Screensaver, Google Desktop, Google Toolbar. Additional software includes Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar, Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition, Ad-Aware SE Personal, and Adobe Reader 7. The optional software list includes Google Talk, RealPlayer, Google Video Player and GalleryPlayer HD Images.
Google Pack also features an automatic updater tool that alerts you to software updates for all of the software available in the collection, with options to automatically download and update any new updates as they become available.
Mobile is a Google service that allows mobile users to search the Web, search images, or search the mobile Web (made up of sites that are specifically designed to fit your phone screen). Google also offers several products via mobile services, which includes Maps for mobile devices (view maps and get directions on your phone) and SMS (text messaging).
