Hot on the heels of announcing the upcoming addition of Presentations to its online office suite, Google has released a new beta of Google Desktop. Now in its fifth iteration the most prominent changes have been made to the sidebar.
A number of gadgets have been redesigned and a new dialog for installing them has been added.
We counted about 480 available gadgets, give or take a few, so it seems Google is beating Microsoft with its lacklustre Windows Vista gadget collection.
The sidebar now blends in with desktop wallpaper. The Google Desktop blog says that it “samples the color of the wallpaper and fades in the sampled color”.