More importantly, I ditched Hotmail when Google Mail first arrived on the block. Then, my default browser page changed to Google News Canada. After that, I installed the Google Bar for quick searches and access to the Blogger button. Of course in order to index my burgeoning collection of digital photos, their Picasa software found space on my hard drive too. Recently, I was amazed by the power of Google Desktop. How wonderful it seemed to have near instantaneous access to the wealth of the data within my own files!
Today, however, Microsoft is starting to win me back. Their BETA search is catching on or maybe I'm just pleased as it's now indexing this blog. The addition of a new tool will probably make me reconsider some of my defections. If you embrace it, it will change the way you think of your computer! I'm very happy that I downloaded the following:
