{"id":57,"date":"2006-01-06T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/google-pack\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:48","slug":"google-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/google-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Pack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot off <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/make-your-computer-just-work.html\">the presses<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Tired of installing all the essentials of a modern virus-free, spyware-free, multimedia-capable internet-connected PC every time you buy\/set up one?  Things like Ad-Aware, Acrobat Reader, Firefox, etc?  Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/pack.google.com\">Google pack<\/a>, a prepackaged suite containing most of the essentials and a bunch of other neat software.<\/p>\n<p>My take:  Sounds pretty cool, and even gives you a free 6-month version of Symantec&#8217;s virus scanner (though the marketing implications of that are a little underhanded).  I&#8217;m glad to see that it installs Firefox, though I could do without Trillian and have never heard of GalleryPlayer HD.  I know Google Talk will soon connect with the AIM network, if it doesn&#8217;t already, thanks to the new Google-AOL partnership, and it&#8217;s made by Google so I get why it&#8217;s in the mix, but how about <a href=\"http:\/\/gaim.sf.net\">Gaim<\/a> as an alternative to Trillian?  Oh, and what&#8217;s with RealPlayer?  Yes, I know you need it, but then why not QuickTime?  You need that just about as often.  Or better yet, include a stripped-down, legal-codecs-only version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videolan.org\">VLC<\/a> or something.<\/p>\n<p>Still, looks like it could be pretty handy at getting a new installation off the ground in a hurry, and according to the website, you don&#8217;t have to install any parts that you don&#8217;t want.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the complete list of included programs:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Google Software<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google Desktop<\/li>\n<li>Google Earth<\/li>\n<li>Google Pack Screensaver<\/li>\n<li>Google Talk<\/li>\n<li>Google Toolbar<\/li>\n<li>Picasa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Software<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ad-Aware SE Personal<\/li>\n<li>Adobe Reader 7<\/li>\n<li>GalleryPlayer HD Images<\/li>\n<li>Mozilla Firefox<\/li>\n<li>Norton AntiVirus 2005 SE<\/li>\n<li>RealPlayer<\/li>\n<li>Trillian<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot off the presses: Tired of installing all the essentials of a modern virus-free, spyware-free, multimedia-capable internet-connected PC every time you buy\/set up one? Things like Ad-Aware, Acrobat Reader, Firefox, etc? Check out the Google pack, a prepackaged suite containing most of the essentials and a bunch of other neat software. My take: Sounds pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}