Yeah I like it. I'm nosy and want to see what kind of hard drive space everyone else has. Also ow clean it is, so I keep asking to see peoples analyzed defrag screen. :P
As for the sidebar, yeah it's Google Desktop. There are a ton of different option (kind of like google homepage if you've ever used it). I like it mostly for the email, system monitor, and the photos. I have all these pictures on my desktop, of friends and family and from China (as well as fandom :P) and it's really fun to have a little slide show going on all the time. It's small enough that you can ignore it if you want, but there if you want a little distraction.
Something that's also cool about Google Desktop is that you can search your computer with it. For example if you go to Google, and search for something, it'll search your computer too (the first two or three entries are from your computer).
I don't use it all the time, but it's useful or fun when I do.
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As for the sidebar, yeah it's Google Desktop. There are a ton of different option (kind of like google homepage if you've ever used it). I like it mostly for the email, system monitor, and the photos. I have all these pictures on my desktop, of friends and family and from China (as well as fandom :P) and it's really fun to have a little slide show going on all the time. It's small enough that you can ignore it if you want, but there if you want a little distraction.
Something that's also cool about Google Desktop is that you can search your computer with it. For example if you go to Google, and search for something, it'll search your computer too (the first two or three entries are from your computer).
I don't use it all the time, but it's useful or fun when I do.