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Google offers a complete pack of some very essential software for your computer under the tag name of Google Pack. Google Pack is available at no cost for Windows XP/Vista users.

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Here is a brief overview of the software that come in Google Pack:

Google Earth
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Software to get a bird’s eye view of almost any place on the earth, including your home! This proprietary software is extremely easy to use.

Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer
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If your Internet Explorer doesn’t have the useful Google toolbar yet, Google Pack will get it for you.

Norton Security Scan
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A basic on demand virus removal software from Symantec, with automatic updating and scheduled scanning features. Norton Security Scan is available exclusively only with the Google Pack.

Spyware Doctor Starter Edition
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A very good antispyware tool from PC Tools, with real time protection, scheduled scanning, automatic updating and excellent detection rates. Spyware Doctor Starter Edition is available exclusively only with the Google Pack. [read more...]

Google Desktop
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A small and useful tool from Google to quickly browse through the files on your computer and organise them properly. It also offers many desktop customisation options.

Google Picasa
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An excellent image editing software with an intuitive interface and a host of features to edit and organise your photos and to share them online with friends.

Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar
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The vastly popular, open source, secure and customisable web browser along with the handy Google toolbar for smart web browsing.

Google Photos Screensaver
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A handy tool to display a slideshow of your stored photos as your screensaver.

Adobe Reader
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The basic tool to read and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

Google Talk
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The very popular chat client to stay connected with your Gmail contacts. It has options like instant messenging, VoIP facility and sending large files, all for free.

Skype
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The popular chat client to stay in contact with your Skype friends. It offers free VoIP, instant messenging, video calls and file sending facilities.

Real Player
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An excellent media player-cum-web browser with a support for a huge number of media formats. A lot of useful plug-ins can be downloaded for free from the internet.

StarOffice
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A fabulous office suite from Sun Microsystems with it’s own word processor, presentation software, spreadsheet, database, maths tool and drawing application. It also supports all other major office suites like Microsoft Office, Corel WordPerfect, OpenOffice.org etc. StarOffice costs US $70 otherwise, but is available for free with the Google Pack. [read more...]

GET GOOGLE PACK

Google Pack is highly customisable. From the above list, you can choose to download only those software that you need. Moreover, if you already have any of the above mentioned software on your computer, Google Pack won’t download it again for you. Google Pack installs the Google Updater on your computer, which runs silently in the background and checks for updates of it’s included software ( only the ones that are present on your computer).