This is not a Yahoo Inc. product, but its a cool one.
If you were wondering how to decode your buddy’s yahoo message archive and did’nt find a way, this one is right for you.
It is named Yummy.

Here is a screenshot:

Here is the download link: Download Yahoo! Messenger Message Archive Decoder
I hope you will find it useful

I thought it was the same old story of desktop search beta 1.
I felt horrible with the first version. It was taking more resource than any other application. If just an indexing application takes so much CPU resource, what about the other applications that we never close for days together? And it was taking some 500MB of space. Just to index? sounds like my system search is also like a google data center. Irritated, I un-installed and deleted all the index.

Now google is back with another new beta version.
I’m adicted to it more than any other application on my desktop.
I have been playing with the new Google Desktop for the past 2 days now and I really like it. It gives me access to something that I use often and keeps them right were I can keep an eye on them.
I have a collection of desktop tools that can make things easy. You know what I mean? easy in every sense.

It has all I want. A simple gmail notifier/indexer, news, search includes desktop(my computer) search, photos to rotate, to keep memories refreshing(you can select the photos folder).

Cool plugins like scratch pad(where you can write anything and it will be saved without your confirmation); Todo(you can save your to do tasks) and Adsense status(this is wonderful addon which displays adsense earnings).

Sticking to the left or right end of the screen, it gives you a wonderful experience.
You can see some screenshots here:
1. Sidepanel View

2. Todo plugin

3. Adsense plugin

4. Timewrap Plugin


You can download the google Desktop here: Download

Its been a while now that we in the Search Engine Industry are hearing about Google Talk.

Finally today, Google has released Google Talk Beta and it can be downloaded here: Download Google Talk Beta
The release went a day early than rumoured.

Google has been dominating the search engines for a long while now. And now that they are into instant messaging to compete with Yahoo! IM, MSN Messenger and may be VOIP software Spyke too? We just have to wait and see the critics and reviews. who knows if they are targeting just the IMs or VOIP tools too? May be thats their ultimate idea!

Now that Google is into every thing that other search engines / portals offer.

I’m just wondering whats next!