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Google Media Server: A Gadget for multimedia sharing
  

Google has to provide a new gadget that enables us to share our multimedia files. We must of course be a user of Google Desktop (only Windows version is supported for now), but you maybe will get a new way of sharing multimedia files through several points.

If you have Google Desktop, you can start by going on this page to download the Gadget appointed Media Server. The title may sound a little pompous, but it is working properly, it can simplify your life enough on several points. So what is actually the goal of Google with this gadget? It’s to identify multimedia files via Google Desktop, and allow access via the protocol UPnP (Universal Plug'n'Play).

The configuration of Gadget opens a page in the browser by default and you must connect using its Google (Gmail):

When the application is working properly, multimedia files are then accessible from your devices and machines that support UPnP, which includes, for example, the PlayStation 3. Of course, it is possible option to allow a machine or not to access the content, although it could indicate the Media Server to accept all incoming connections.

The entire data sharing is of course the same network, wired or wireless. The service supports images, music and videos, but we must make it clear that reading distance content is based on the capabilities of the device just looking for information.

Note that Google Media Server also supports Picasa web albums and videos uploaded to YouTube.