OK, so I'm starting to gush about Google. I have long known not to be a crazy zealot about Linux, in spite of how good I think it is and how I think it may be easier to run one Windows machine than one Linux box but that it's much easier to run 10 Linux boxes than 10 Windows boxes. (And you can replace "Windows" with Mac OS X in the previous sentence.) But Google keeps doing stuff that is incredibly useful. At some point I'll be worried about them having everyone's data, but I I choose not to worry about that right now. There's this Google Toolbar that's a Firefox Extension that does a number of pretty cool things. One is that it'll spell-check textareas. It'll also auto-fill forms with your name and such.

And then there's Google Notebook that lets you clip stuff from a web page and add it to a so-called notebook that you can then share publicly. You can see mine if you like, though there's not much there worth looking at. This seems to solve a problem that I've heard folks in schools complain about and that is being able to print just part of a web page. With this little thing you can highlight whatever you want and create a little page full of clippings that you can then print, save and whatever else.

This all works pretty darned intuitively and it wasn't long ago that the stuff it does would be impossible in a web browser. This is further fodder for my No More Desktop Applications argument.