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Firefox_greasemonkey. Firefox_tweaks. Firefox_add-ons+ 2. gReader Comments. NetNewsWire for iPhone. Easter Eggs in Google Reader. Product Ideas for Google Reader. Gruml : Google Reader for Mac OS. How to supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links. How to display just the items you liked in Google Reader.

Google Reader Notifier. How to make a killer to-do list with Gmail Superstars and Quick. Présentation rapide de Google Reader. From Wired How-To Wiki Want to get more out of your RSS feeds? Are you curious how some people are able to follow thousands of feeds while you feel overwhelmed with fifty? Today we're going to look at how you can use Google Reader to help organize and tame your RSS workflow. Google Reader is easy to hack because it's web-based -- users have created everything from Greasemonkey scripts to entire themes. With a few scripts and some ingenious tips you'll soon be a Google Reader power user in no time. This page is a wiki. Organization tips If you want more out of Google Reader, getting organized is essential. For example, you might create a "Wired" tag and use it to hold all the various subscriptions from Wired.com and related sites.

How you organize your feeds is up to you. Tip: Here's the Getting Things Done method: When you're plowing through your feeds if you see something you want to read, star the item and move on. Shortcuts The more feeds you have, the more you'll be hitting the J key. How to export the feeds from a Google Reader folder. Most feed readers let you import and export subscriptions using the OPML format. For Google Reader, you'll find this option in Settings > Import/Export. But what happens when you need to export the feeds from a single folder so you can share them with a friend or upload them to a site? Google Reader lets you export the feeds from a folder: should replace FOLDER with the actual name of the folder) Another way to share the subscriptions from a folder is to make it public and to use this link for the OPML file: can be obtained from the public page created by Google Reader) This also works if someone shares with you the page of a public folder and you want to obtain the list of subscriptions from that folder.

. { Inspired by Abhijeet M. } How to add a Google Reader sidebar. Google has updated the iPhone version of Google Reader, its online web feed aggregator. This is good news even if you don’t have an iPhone. Like other web apps designed for the iPhone interface, it fits very well in Firefox (and other browsers) sidebar. And it’s pretty simple: Open the Bookmarks Manager (Bookmarks/Organize Bookmarks…)In Firefox 2, in the File menu, select New bookmark… In Firefox 3, press Organize in the toolbar and select New bookmark…Enter a name, for location, and ensure to check Load this bookmark in the sidebar.Press Save Changes and now you can select the bookmark to load Google Reader in the sidebar.

Explore your interactions with Google Reader. Web applications track many user actions and use them for different purposes: improving the products, finding patterns, building user profiles etc. For example, Google Reader records some of your actions without providing options in the interface to access the data. Here are some addresses where you can find historical data about the items you've subscribed to (click on "View all items" to see all the posts). * All the posts you've emailed to your contacts: * All the posts you have marked as unread at some point (to keep a post unread, you need to uncheck "Mark as read" from the options bar; note that "Mark all as unread" will not maintain this state): * All the posts you have marked as unread and are still unread (Google Reader calls them "saved items"):

How to reconstruct a feed's history using Google Reader. Google Reader is more than a feed reader: it's also a platform for feed caching and archiving. That means Google Reader stores all the posts from the subscribed feeds and they're available if you keep scrolling down in the interface. A simple application for this feature is to retrieve the history of a feed for archiving purposes or to import it in a database.

If you visit a blog or a news site, the feed will only contain the latest 10-20 posts, but Google Reader can show you more than that. Just enter this URL in the address bar: replace FEED_URL with the address of the feed and NUMBER_OF_ITEMS with the number of historical posts from the feed. For example, How to cure information overload on Google Reader. How to get good with Google Reader. How to get started with Google Reader. One of the core technologies behind the Web 2.0 “revolution” is RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Most websites that are updated with any sort of regularity have feeds of at least their headlines, and usually of full articles. Some sites also have secondary feeds listing their comments, videos, links, and other updates as well.

Because RSS is so common these days, keeping up with the rush of information that shapes our lives has become pretty easy (“really simple”, even). Instead of jumping from one site to another, you can keep track of all the content of the sites you visit regularly in one central place. Why Google Reader? While there are desktop applications that collect your syndicated content, reading RSS feeds is one task that justifies the buzz around “Web 2.0″. For reading news, keeping up with blogs, even tracking packages, little can compare with Google Reader — its easy to add feeds, easy to read them, and easy to organize them.

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