releases new beta version with enhanced Sidebar! In this version, panels support drag-and-drop to place outside the Sidebar. They can also set to hide, collapse or stay on top via context menu.

According to the latest feature announced in  which allows application to establish secure peer-to-peer tunneling channel between 2 peers over UDP connection using Libjigle 0.2.0, this feature has been integrated into Google Sidebar. As a result, you can send entries inside panel to your friends via . Anyway, this capability currently is available for News and Web Clips. For more complex example, you might try .

At last, Google Desktop let you develop your own plug-ins to serve exactly what you need. Try out the  today and submit your plug-ins to get a T-shirt for free. Even Python can be used to write a plug-in.

This is the way Google trying to take users from Microsoft Windows, MSN, Yahoo! IM, , and so on. Integration is one of the key that Google uses at most. This technique is so called Synergy.

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