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As promised this is all you needed to know about google pack and the softwares that come with Google Pack.

The essential software that come with google pack by default are:

• Google Earth– Shows excellent satellite images of almost each and every part of the earth with different angles and with the ability to bookmark places on the “Earth”. This is the first software of its kind which is available to the common public for free.Softwares such as these were available only to the high ranked military officials, the homeland security department and those who are highly ranked in the government. This software is highly recommended for use! The only flipside to this software is its high bandwidth requirement which is quite inevitable when you are getting satellite images of “The Earth”.
• Picasa–Picasa is another great software from Google which is the best that I have used for organizing my personal photos. The most outstanding aspect of picasa is its ability to password protect photo collections and that too effectively!
• Google Desktop–Google Desktop is the best desktop management software around! One of its USPs is its Desktop Sidebar with a range of widgets from Stock quotes to Adsense account details, to weather forecast details to many many more. And obviously it indexes files on your computer in realtime which is very good and I need not tell you about the efficiency of Google’s Indexing technology.:)
• Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar– Firefox is an excellent browser produced by Mozilla and is the best we can get when it comes to competing with internet explorer.In mozilla Firefox, the webpages load quicker than internet explorer, the popups are blocked better than internet explorer and the most important thing, its program logic to handle passwords and form data is far more advanced and better then Internet Explorer and it really saves a lot of your typing; and to top it all the google toolbar which gives us a range of services from quick google search, to gmail access to giving pagerank of the pages we visit.
• Spyware Doctor–Spyware doctor scans the spywares and adwares right, but the problems i faced with this software was the performance issues. The scanning process almost slows down your computer to a 386 level( i have tested this on 512 DDR and Intel 3.00GHZ processor). Along with this spyware doctor monitors spywares in real time by running in the background and can be quite annoying sometimes; but i guess this is the tradeoff that you have to suffer when you want to protect your computer from spywares and adwares.
• Skype–Skype from the developers of the Kazaa is the pioneer in bring voice chat and video communication to our desktops and with services like calling to any number from skype and receiving calls on your desktop from any phone is the best that we can get in its category.

So, here’s a review for Google Pack and all the software that comes with it and it is surely a must download software bundle of essential softwares. Moreover, Google Pack comes with a very efficient installer and updater which downloads and updates your softwares as soon as they become outdated or newer versions are released!

So, my verdict, download google pack right away if you havent so far!!

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