Standalone applications
- AdWords Editor (Mac OS X, Windows 2000 SP3+/XP/Vista)
- Desktop application to manage a Google AdWords account. The application allows users to make changes to their account and advertising campaigns before synchronising with the online service.
- Chrome (Windows XP/Vista/7, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X)
- Web browser.
- Desktop search application, that indexes e-mails, documents, music, photos, chats, Web history and other files. It allows the installation of Google Gadgets.
- Virtual globe that uses satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe.
- Gmail/Google Notifier (Mac OS X, Windows 2000/XP)
- Alerts the user of new messages in their Gmail account.
- Pack (Windows XP/Vista)
- Collection of computer applications -- some Google-created, some not -- including Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa, Google Talk, and Google Chrome.
- Photos Screensaver
- Slideshow screensaver as part of Google Pack, which displays images sourced from a hard disk, or through RSS and Atom Web feeds.
- Photo organization and editing application, providing photo library options and simple effects. Also includes Facial Recognition andGeoTagging features.
- Picasa Web Albums Uploader (Mac OS X)
- An application to help uploading images to the "Picasa Web Albums" service. It consists of both an iPhoto plug-in and a stand-alone application.
- Quick search box (Windows, Mac OS X)
- A tool box like run in windows from where you can avail all the features of the run dialog, type a keyword and search google, type an application name (on your computer) to launch it, type a web URL and launch it from the default web client. This tool box is very user friendly. Based on Quicksilver (software).
- Secure Access (Windows 2000/XP)
- VPN client for Google WiFi users, whose equipment does not support WPA or 802.1x protocols
- SketchUp (Mac OS X and Windows 2000/Windows XP)
- Simple 3D sketching program with unique dragging interface and direct integration with Google Earth.
- Talk (Windows 2000/Windows XP/Server 2003/Vista)
- Application for VoIP and instant messaging. It consists of both a service and a client used to connect to the service, which uses theXMPP protocol.
- Visigami (Mac OS X Leopard)
- Image search application screen saver that searches files from Google Images, Picasa and Flickr.
- Pinyin Input Method (Windows 2000/Windows XP/Windows Vista) (Google China)
- Input Method Editor that is used to convert Chinese Pinyin characters, which can be entered on Western-style keyboards, to Chinese characters.
- Japanese Input (Windows XP SP2+/Windows Vista SP1+/Windows 7 and Mac OS X Leopard+) (Google Japan)
[edit]Desktop extensions
These products created by Google are extensions to software created by other organizations.
- Blogger Web Comments (Firefox only)
- Displays related comments from other Blogger users.
- Dashboard Widgets for Mac (Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets)
- Gears (Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari)
- A browser plug-in that enables development of off-line browser applications.
- Send to Mobile (Firefox) (Discontinued)
- Allows users to send text messages to their mobile phone (US only) about web content.
- Toolbar (Firefox and Internet Explorer)
- Web browser toolbar with features such as a Google Search box, phishing protection, pop-up blocker as well as the ability for website owners to create buttons.
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