Microsoft is not going to be happy about this...

Those ever-enterprising developers at Google have released Google for your desktop, a search tool to, you guessed it, help you find stuff on your personal computer. Here's a detailed introduction to it, from O'Reilly. It's unfortunately not available for Macs (yet?), but this ought to make a huge difference in the time I spend at work and at home trying to find files I haven't touched in months but suddenly find a need for again. Especially since the built-in Windows search is so-o-o slow. (Via Slashdot)