A few helpful bits and pieces

I’ve just spent 10 minutes this morning installing and configuring google’s active desktop and it’s looking rather nifty i  must say.

It seems nice and light weight and you can configure plenty of gadgets (itunes controller, clock, calendar etc) with minimal fuss.

The only thing that seems a problem is the sidebar view set-up. Which is all lovely and good if you have more than one monitor, but i can imagine it using up valuable screen space if you don’t.

You can download it all for free here

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