Google held a contest (with cash prizes), which resulted in the identification of the
best software modules for Google Desktop .
As you know,
Google Desktop is a utility that installs on a personal computer under Windows XP or Windows 2000, provides full indexing of information on the hard disk, and also supports the connection of additional modules, small programs. The most popular such modules are the
calendar ,
flower pot and
weather forecast .
At the competition of modules, the main prize of $ 5000 was received by the
diGGGadget program, which downloads news from the digg website. In second place is the
Multiplayer Reversi game with several players connected. Quite a bit was not enough to close the top three winners, Sergey Polkovnikov from St. Petersburg, with his speech synthesizer
RSS to Speech')
All software modules are created using the
Google Desktop SDK .