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August 23, 2005
Google Sidebar trumps Microsoft
Google has released a new version of its desktop which includes a feature called Sidebar, which gives you a vertical monitor for things like email and Web sites, and stock quotes. You can stick photos there, or make notes on a scratch pad among other things.
And if you give Sidebar the go ahead, it will monitor your Web habits, analyse your habits, and bring you news tailored to your interests. It can't be long, surely, before it will be telling you where you fit in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator scale, and what the stars have in store for you today.
According to The Guardian, Sidebar indexes data from Microsoft Outlook and Office, which must please Bill Gates no end, given that he was planning on doing much the same thing with Vista. On the other hand, Apple beat him to it with Spotlight.
It also has plug-ins. Hey, just what we've always wanted: a melted clock. Maybe this is part of Google's remix strategy.
Posted by cw at August 23, 2005 11:18 AM
Comments
Goolgly Gee! Maybe I should rollback to Windows 98 and reconfigure the Active Desktop Channel Bar
or go get Real Audio Player 2.0 with that danged vertical advertising bar?
Jamie will want me to clean my black LPs and listen to Switched On Bach
to say goodbye to Moog.
Posted by: Ananda Sim at August 23, 2005 12:47 PM
When I went to install the Google sidebar it wanted me to delete a hodt of dll files. I cannot follow the solutions suggested
Can you help
Itving Stephens
Posted by: Irving Stephens at August 25, 2005 07:10 PM