Often we discover by accident an incredibly timesaving tool, which we COULD have been using for years in our computer work, but just had not known about. Well, you will bless the day that you learned here about this true time saver.

How many times have you misfiled something in your computer and wasted time looking for it? Did you ever need to find an old email of something a client said, but had no idea where you stored it? Ever need the last name of your school classmate's new husband to send them a card, but cannot find where she wrote it in a Word document story recounting their honeymoon vacation?

Search no more ... okay, well just one search -- AND FIND IT. Free Google Desktop searches everything in your computer the same way it searches the Internet to find things you ask for. Moreover, if it can search the whole Internet accurately in seconds, imagine how fast it finds stuff inside your little batch of files and folders.

Google describes Google Desktop this way: "It's a desktop search application that provides full text search over your email, files, music, photos, chats, Gmail, web pages that you've viewed, and more. By making your computer searchable, Desktop puts your information easily within your reach and frees you from having to manually organize your files, emails and bookmarks ... ."

Never search for hours again, in utter frustration, for some document or image that you know is in your computer; you just do not know where. Google Desktop can find it in seconds.

You download the Google Desktop tool for free at desktop.google.com.

Published: May 9, 2008

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Bill Koelzer is a Web marketing consultant to web-proficient agents nationwide. He is co-author, with Barbara Cox, Ph.D., of the Prentice-Hall books, Internet Marketing in Real Estate and Internet Marketing. Bill is also webmaster of Orange County Real Estate, among the most-awarded known Realtor® sites. Visit his website, Koelzer.com or e-mail him at .