Google, a starting place for most of us to the vast virtual world that is Internet. If you ever ask why even an address bar in web browser have to change, this is why, Google is a threat to the old address bar as many of us never memorize website addresses but just type some keywords and let Google does the job :)

Sadly, Google is not that serious in catering Linux users. If you go to Google’s repository for Linux there are only two applications at the moment : picasa and google desktop.

But that won’t stop us from taking the power of Google to Ubuntu desktop, let’s go!  

• Google Desktop get Google's search power right on your Ubuntu desktop. This search widget is also useful for searching local files. For installation you may need to install : glibc 2.3.2+, gtk+ 2.2.0+ Click the picture to go to Google Desktop installation guide.

  

• Google Gadget, yes there are already screenlets and gdesklets for Ubuntu to show little widgets on desktop, but you may want to try Google Gadget, especially if you want to have adsense monitoring widget right on your Ubuntu desktop, this application is compatible with the gadgets written for Google Desktop for Windows as well as the Universal Gadgets on iGoogle. Click the picture to go to Google Gadget installation guide.

  
• Google Earth, Google's 3 D earth viewer. I already write a post about Google Earth here.
• Picasa, an image viewer from Google. One of few good image viewers in Ubuntu.
• gmail-notify (or kgmail-notify for Kubuntu), a small application that monitors your gmail account for new emails and notifies you when there’s one (or more obviously). Already listed on synaptic package manager.

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This post is not intended to be a comprehensive list and always open for suggestions and updates.

 

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