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This is in response to Sarah’s post about how much she loves Google stuff.

Well… I hereby call them Google Toys or GToys. >_>

Google toys I use all the time

GMail
It’s absolutely cool. I only delete spam. Read Sarah’s post for more about this.

GTalk
Matt and I use GTalk Voice chat round the clock. Except when one of us is out. We would be on call for more than 12 hours sometimes. We sleep with it >_> He’s snoring at the moment. Oddly enough, it’s comforting.

Search History
This is very very useful especially if you are doing a paper or research on something and you don’t do it regularly or just the day before. You will see all the searches you’ve made and what search results you’ve viewed. It shows for each page how many times you visited that page, the time and date, which searches had no results, and it’s on a by-day basis. This is helpful especially the date and time if you want to properly document a paper you are writing on (date and time accessed). What I like about it best though is you can search within your searches!

Bookmarks
You can bookmark a page with a click of a button and tag your bookmarks. Then you can search your bookmarks. x_x I like it because my local bookmarks is VERY messy so I use google bookmarks for school use.

Google toys I use every now and then

Google Maps
I’m not a stalker. But sometimes I just want to see stuff. Some parts of the world are still not updated, but it’s still cool.

Picasa
This is the image indexer of Google. You can view all the images stored in your computer all in one place. You can also search the filenames, and duplicate images. You also have the option to upload upto 1Gb of images on your picasa/google account automatically, so you have an instant web album. You can use this web album for the new Google talk gadget thingie.

Notebook
I write random notes. >_> I used to use this a lot when I was going on other computers before.
Also before bookmarks came out. and saved searches. I don’t quite use it anymore.

Docs and Speadsheets
Well… I tried using the spreadsheets to keep account of my daily spendings. >_> but i failed . Docs, i used it a couple of times to open the stuff my groupmates send when i can’t be bothered running Word.

Calendar
I use it when i think of it or see it. >_> It sends reminders to my email so it’s all good. I put the reminder for my website stuff on there.

Google toys I’ve used

Google Desktop
This is evil. It uses up too much memory. It makes my small screen even smaller. But you know what? I loved it. Every single moment I was using it. I loved it. It just didn’t work well with uTorrent. But I heard recently that it now has an option to put certain folders on ignore. So I’ll do that. I think. I might want to use it again. But maybe I should get more RAM first. x_x

Google Earth
Google maps software. But GMaps is better. >_>

Google Toys I plan to play with

SketchUp
It’s a 3D modeling program. Dunno… Just wanna try it. *pokes Sara and Sarah* gonna try it??

Google WebAccelerator
No… It sucks >_> I tried it. Within 10 minutes of installing it and hardly browsing coz i was busy chatting, I already had 3MB in my cache. So I figured … never mind. Besides all it’ll do is cache so things load up faster. ~_~

Google Reader
Sarah recommended this. Actually, she kind of ordered me to use it. AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaand It seems to work fine. Some blogs don’t have feeds, but the important ones have feeds. :D \o/ I’m gonna use this baby. >_> Now… if only I could remember to go on it often. :D

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