Google Desktop 2 leaves Beta

Google Desktop is out of beta with "several powerful new features under its belt." There are a few new cool features such as Google Maps integration in the sidebar panels, and some additions to the Sidebar Plugins.

From Google Blog:

Fans of Google Maps will want to check out Sidebar's new maps panel, which lets you do all the usual cool maps stuff -- local business info, directions, sightseeing -- plus a new one: finding new locations relevant to the web pages and emails you're reading and showing them in your maps panel.

Google Maps integration for Desktop Sidebar

Also, check out the new Google Desktop Blog.

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Gmail Chat Disabled

The fact that it happened does not surprise me but that it took so long for our network administrators to figure it out does. And if you are wondering how do you disable Gmail's chat features on your network, you only need locking DNS lookups to chatenabled.mail.google.com , by returning 127.0.0.1 .

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