The online Google Spreadsheets is free, easy to use, and handy for collaboration, but stick with Excel for complex spreadsheets.
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Google Home is a breezy service that lets you create a custom sign-in page chock-full of news and widgets.
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With an interface that lacks ads but is also short on features, this early Google Talk beta serves Gmail users who want to chat via text or voice.
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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 4 beta is less clunky than its predecessor and we love the zippy search and creative Sidebar Gadgets. Still, we're wary of handing over our computing habits to Google's servers.
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Managing photos on both a PC and the Web is lunacy. New synchronisation solutions make more sense.
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.
Close-up photos of Australian homes, businesses and famous landmarks in cities, towns and remote areas are now available on Google Maps Australia, absolutely free.
We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level — Google Ocean.
The new chief of EMI's digital unit is a Googler down to his soul, which means he's extremely bright, a techie, and dead set against suing fans for file sharing.
Learn how to load your Google Calendar in a Firefox sidebar ... the easy way.
Google's product experts share their favourite features that often don't get the limelight or that people simply don't know about.
Think you know how to use a search engine? These three handy tips will help you get even more out of your Googling experience.
Do more faster with these amazingly useful shortcuts.
CNET describes ways to use Yahoo for custom searches and to compare results
against those of Google.
Want to create your own homepage? We put four personalised start pages through their paces and rank them according to looks, features and performance.
CNET pits Yahoo Calendar against the Google Calendar beta online scheduling service.
CNET reviews Web 2.0 e-mail applications from major vendors Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.
As the battle of localised search applications heats up, which ones are best at quickly finding your files, no matter where you stashed them?
Need to find a specific e-mail message or file on your hard drive? You're not alone. Here are six new localised-search apps let you search your hard drive.
Manage your Winamp directly from your Google Desktop.
Deliver Google News to your desktop.
Find the location a selected address on the Google map.
Find the location a selected address on the Google map.
Search with Google and block annoying pop-up windows.