It’s almost as if this were a major presidential election story, with all the press it got yesterday: Google has launched a desktop search tool. Once you set up the software download, it indexes your computer for certain types of files, including e-mail, .TXT, HTML, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, AOL instant messages, and

If you have switched from IE to FireFox, or even if you just use FireFox as an occasional browser, you might want to check out Portable Firefox. It’s a smaller, more portable version of FireFox that is stored on your USB thumb drive, and you can then install a fully functional version of