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Tips & tricks on the Google Desktop Blog:

http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/2005/11/trick-of-day-plug-in-fine-tuning.html
http://googledesktop.blogspot.com/2005/11/tip-of-day-email-filtering.html

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Trick of the Day: Plug-in Fine-Tuning

For our developers here's a neat trick to help you easily develop, test
and fine-tune a Sidebar script plug-in without the need to repeatedly
install the plug-in after each modification.

1. Create the installer for your plug-in and install it once. The
plug-in is installed in the Program Files directory under Google
Desktop Search\Plugins\YourPluginName. Once installed you can modify
the plug-in script sources directly.

2. To test changes after modifying the script sources use the
"Add/Remove Panels" menu option to unload the old plug-in and load in
the new version.

3. Once you are satisfied with the results transfer the modified files
back to your original code base and use the plug-in installer to create
the final plug-in package.

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Tip of the Day: Email Filtering

To prevent specific incoming email messages to appear in your Sidebar
Email panel, you can create an email filter.

For example, let's say you are using Google Desktop to index both your
personal and business email accounts, but do not want your personal
email displayed in the Sidebar. Adding a filter with the "To:" field
set to your personal email address will instruct the Email panel to
skip showing any email messages sent to your personal email account.