Tags: beta, change, google

Google Talk beta

With an interface that lacks ads, the simple Google Talk beta dresses up its features by allowing you to leave and receive free voicemail messages, transfer files, and find out what music your buddies are tuning in to.

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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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Google Reader Beta

Google's elegant newsfeed manager for Gmail users is friendly for newbies to RSS.

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Google Page Creator beta

This simple tool, still in beta, helps you make a basic Web page in a few easy steps.

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Chrome (beta)

Google has rethought the Internet browser — some of its basic underpinnings are quite novel — but users will recognise some features as they exist in other, open-source browsers on the market today.

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Google launches Picasa 3

Google's photo application, Picasa, has been taken out of beta and there are plenty of new features for users who choose to upgrade.

Google quietly updates Chrome

Search giant Google has quietly begun releasing a hastily prepared update to its Chrome browser to fix some security problems.

Skyfire mobile browser bulks up for open beta

California start-up Skyfire has announced its Web browser for Windows Mobile devices has gone into public beta, making the latest version available for download.

Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces

A new face recognition feature on Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects. That and other changes to the photo-sharing site are joined by a new beta version of the accompanying Picasa 3.0 photo-editing software.

Google offers cutting-edge Chrome, first update

Those who want to try the latest features arriving in Google's Chrome browser can sign up for developer releases or beta versions. The first update is out of the gate.

How to store your files online

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

DIY: Yahoo Hacks

CNET describes ways to use Yahoo for custom searches and to compare results against those of Google.

100 tips to speed up your software

Do more faster with these amazingly useful shortcuts.

Calendars: Yahoo vs. Google

CNET pits Yahoo Calendar against the Google Calendar beta online scheduling service.

Start-page smackdown: Netvibes, Pageflakes, iGoogle and Live.com

Want to create your own homepage? We put four personalised start pages through their paces and rank them according to looks, features and performance.

Web 2.0 applications: Google vs. Yahoo vs. the world

CNET reviews Web 2.0 e-mail applications from major vendors Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.

50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet.

The future of e-mail

We pit the beta versions of Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail against each other.

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MailPlane 2.0 beta

Get GMail on your desktop with this stand-alone client for Mac.

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GMail Drive 1.0.12 beta

Save and retrieve files stored on your Gmail account via Windows Explorer.

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