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Google have announced their new Google Desktop 5 Beta release today. The updates are mostly in the widgets Google says, alas I don’t use them. I don’t like side applications that disturb my normal PC usage, though it could be very useful for others I know. Other features are in previewing the files from Desktop Search results before opening the whole file. This feature could come in handy when you want to open files in heavy applications. Another thing is Security alert against malicious links.

Nevertheless, my main interest is always in how fast and efficient I can search my files, especially with that Quick Search Box. Unfortunately, as I have posted before with every version of Google Desktop I try on my HP Pavilion PC at home, the Quick Search Box does not show up. This morning, before I went to work I tried the new release, but the results were even more disappointing. After downloading the new Google Desktop, nothing  much happened. On this laptop I am using right now, I got the message saying I need to restart for changes to take effect, but for some reason this Google Desktop behaves strangely on my HP Pavilion PC. I have read similar comments from other users as well. For some reason, Google did not respond to the email and post I had about the issue. Maybe they thought it’s too rare and too minor to bother for. Still, it’s a very great tool, I hope most of you guys are able to enjoy it as I am on my laptop, without the Quick Search Box it becomes so much slower to use I avoid it.

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This is a nice article from LifeHacker on how to burn almost any video file type onto a playable DVD using the DVD Flick Open Source. Enjoy.

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37signals is a privately-held company which was established back in 1999. The company adapted Ruby language, implemented their own framework for their projects, released the framework to public under the name Ruby On Rails and helped increase public awareness of the Ruby potentials.

37signals have launched three very promising online AJAX based collaboration applications, namely Campfire for real time group chatting and file sharing, Basecamp for online project collaboration and communication, and Backpack to organize your to-dos, notes, schedules and tasks online. All these provide FREE limited user access, and for more features and unlimited usage there is a subscription fee. Site claims over 1 million registered users in their system. The 37signals site is ranked among the first 3,000 sites on Alexa as well.
Take sometime to go through the tour or signup for FREE.

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