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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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Windows 7 pre-beta (build 6801)

At first glance, Windows 7 appears to be an advanced iteration of Windows Vista, but more consumer-friendly, with many user interface enhancements.

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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 Desktop Search Beta

Google has joined the burgeoning desktop search market with a public beta. We've had a day or so to play with it -- here's our initial report.

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Don't shoot Microsoft's new Messenger

The latest release of Windows Live Messenger beta adds some cool new features, but only if all your friends are using it too.

Opera Mini 4.1 steps out of beta

Opera has sewed up a short beta run of Opera Mini 4.1 declaring the mobile phone browser build stable enough to institute as the latest product standard.

Adobe to take Flash videos to desktop

Adobe Media Player, set for release later this year, can play back downloaded video files, rather than browser-based video streams.

Google unveils desktop search

Google has unveiled its first-generation desktop application for searching through personal files and Web history stored locally on a PC, a move that could shake up the landscape of Internet search and raise privacy hackles.

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Find files faster

Hard-disk real estate is so plentiful and cheap now, finding what we really want or need among the gigabytes of detritus is becoming an issue. We look at some popular programs to banish your file finding nightmares.

Should I buy a mid-range Vista PC, or get a MacBook Pro and use Parallels?

Is it worth buying a mid-range $2000-2500 Dell PC or iMac and running Windows Vista on it, or is it better to buy a high-end computer like the MacBook Pro and run Vista using Parallels?

100 tips to speed up your software

Do more faster with these amazingly useful shortcuts.

DIY: How to update firmware on your MP3 player

We'll step you through how to upgrade the firmware on some of the most popular MP3 players, so there'll be no excuses not to have the latest and greatest feature set available.

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Find it fast: our top five desktop search apps

As the battle of localised search applications heats up, which ones are best at quickly finding your files, no matter where you stashed them?

Macs: Intel and Windows inside

Boot Camp makes it possible to run Windows XP natively on Intel-based Macs. Will the software bring more people over to the Apple Computer side?

An inside look at Windows Vista

Now set to ship in January 2007, Windows Vista will be Microsoft's first major operating system release since it introduced Windows XP in 2001.

Windows Vista pros and cons

What you'll love and hate about Windows Vista.

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Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2.0b3 Beta

Access Windows computers remotely.

AOL Desktop for Mac 1.5b3 beta

Organize your online life with tabbed browsing, integrated e-mail and chat, and application navigation.

VirtueDesktops 0.54 Beta 5

Manage virtual desktops.

Windows Desktop Search 4.0 Preview for Windows XP

Find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer as you type.

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