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Google Desktop Uninstalled

You may have spotted in my link blog that I was excited to see Google Desktop available for the Mac. Well, I installed it on Thursday. I just uninstalled it. The reason? It took over my machine, for almost 36 hours. It runs an indexing task which consumes all the available CPU and which can't be paused or stopped.

I had no idea how much longer it was going to carry on jamming the machine for and I wanted my Mac back, so Google Desktop is gone. It's not coming back until I know the indexer has learned a little respect.

Labels: Google, Mac

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Adium Leaves Beta

I have an account on pretty much every public instant messaging service, so I long ago decided to use a multi-service client. Back when I used Windows all those years ago the client-of-choice was Trillian, and on my *IX systems it's GAIM (and I would probably use that if I had to go back to Windows for some awful reason, mainly because like Adium it has OTR support), but I am most at home with the Adium client on my Macs. So I was delighted today to have it advise me that an update was available ... to version 1.0! Out of beta at last. Congratulations, everyone!

Labels: Mac, Software

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