Posts Tagged with ‘google-desktop’

Today the makers of the recently launched (yet oddly-named) Chumby internet-connected device have acquired $12.5 million in Series B funding, primarily from JK&B Capital, a new investor for the company. Chumby's other existing venture investors, including Avalon Ventures, Masthead Venture and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, were also involved in the financing, which will be used to “accelerate growth” of the San Diego-based company, as well as to expand the Chumby Network onto other screen-based web devices.
“We are pleased to receive [...]

Up until this point Google Gadgets, the widgets or small applications that run in Google Desktop, were only available for versions of the Windows operating system. Although Mac OS X user have the Dashboard feature complete with a wide variety of downloadable widgets, Google's directory of more than 27,000 gadgets dwarfs the seemingly sparse collection of just over 3300 widgets in the Dashboard widget directory.
Now, however, Mac users will be able to use any of the Gadgets tomorrow, when Google [...]

Yesterday Google announced the release of Google Desktop 5.5 Beta, and along with it come new features for its personalized homepage service, iGoogle.
Google Desktop has made it very easy for users to personalize their desktop with gadgets that show the latest news, weather forecasts, and various other information, but according to Google, people want to be able to also put those gadgets on their iGoogle homepages.
Now, with the new version of the Desktop software, Google has added this very feature [...]