Google Earth is a map viewer with almost every points of this planet. You can change the visualization angle, position and zoom, from entire globe to street level! And that's not all, you are able to search for places of interest, with information and metadata, and the capability to switch on/off the different map layers available (streets, places, 3D maps, roads, borders and labels, etc).
Google Desktop 5.1 by Google helps users search in their PCs with the same power that the Google web site search engine provides. This application can be used to search text within e-mail messages, files, music, photos, stored chat files, etc., stored in your local machine. The sidebar helps organize Favorites, Notes, Unread email and it even provides Time, Weather and Recent News.
The toolbar has many of the features of the Internet Explorer version but also has some features of its own. My favorite new feature is the ability to drag a file on your browser and it automatically add it to Google Docs & Spreadsheets, the supported file types include; doc, rtf, odf, sxw, cls, ods, and csv.
A powerful, intuitive 3D modeling tool for conceptual design, documentation, and presentation. Build 3D models, create 2D presentations with LayOut, and more. It's easier to learn than other 3D modeling programs, which is why so many people are already using it.
Google Web Accelerator is the new web accelerator software from Google designed to help speed up your web surfing experience. Load web pages and images faster than ever before! You can get broadband speeds from your dialup modem, reduce data charges and usage.
Google Earth Pro is an incredible mapping application that will allow you to fly through a global database of Earth imagery and detailed mapping information. This program allows you to take a 7-day trip to any area on Earth, including many high-resolution cities in the United States, and some select cities abroad.
Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features: a local server, a database and a worker thread pool. Google Gears is currently an early-access developers' release. It is not yet intended for use by real users in production applications at this time.
this software is a screensaver “manager” with the special ability of combining multiple photographs sources and use them to create a screensaver for your PC. This extremely easy-to-use application fully integrates with the operating system as all you will be seeing of it is an extra option on the regular drop down list of screensavers of Windows.
Google Video Uploader allows you to upload your videos to Google Videos. The application is quite simple, but it helps you a lot if you are tired for any reason of the web interface or it just doesn't work for you. When you download and execute the application for the first time, it will ask you to provide a valid google videos account. I used my gmail account and it worked just fine.
Google Desktop is a set of tools that allows you to search in Google faster, and also adds useful gadgets to your desktop. The program has a nice sidebar, which is divided into resizable and variously configurable modules .The default gadgets are a Gmail window, a news ticker, a "stickynote" , a gallery of files, an RSS feed window, a weather applet, a To Do list, and a Google search bar.
Google Calendar is rather a nice and useful thing. You create events and appointments edit and look them through. Also you can create several calendars at once, add the calendar of your friend, invitations and search events in public calendars. You also learn the weather forecast here. And the main advantage of the Google Sync Calendar is synchronization with Microsoft Outlook.
With the tremendous success that is promising to have the Google Sketchup, it’s more than likely that if you are not a user, in a little time you’ll be a viewer of a Sketchup created model. In that case you will be needing the Google Sketchup Viewer, available for free download from the Sketchup web site.
This tool is developed by the people from Google which is quite a reference of its quality and is a desktop searching engine. But that is not all. You can enrich your Desktop experience by adding the so called Google Gadgets from the huge list available on the web site of Google Desktop Search. These Gadgets performs the most incredible and handy tasks that you can imagine and more.
It's intended to sketch up your ideas as simple as a regular user but as professional as the tools included. The essence of the application is to combine the spontaneity of sketching by the hand with the power of digital tools, and achieve it with awesome and powerful tools and an intelligent guided process that makes everything really easy.
The basic idea after this gadget is to give to Google Desktop Search the ability to monitor the eBay items you’re currently watching so you don’t need to use your web browser and login into eBay anymore. This cool plug-in is available for free and is good to know that has been tested to work correctly with Google Desktop Search.
Here is a very innovative application that works as a complement plug-in of Google Sketchup software. The proposal of this tool is to make possible to create sketches on a digital platform with the distinctive style of a sketch drawn by hand. Available for Windows and Mac users