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Safari 5 extension helps using Google Reader

11 Jun 2010 Leave a Comment

by 無聊達人 in Apple, Safari 5, Software Tags: Extension, Feed, Google Reader, RSS, Safari 5

If you’re like me using Google Reader to consolidate and organize your feeds, you may find many Safari 5 extensions out there useful to enhance your feed reading experience.

1. GReader
It adds a feed button with the number of unread news in Safari menu bar, very handy!

2. Google Reader Style
Some styles for Google Reader can be selected. I don’t like the default Google Reader style.

And it has some Twitter clients support like Tweetie. I do hope Adium will have its Twitter extension soon.
To find more extensions, you can visit http://safariextensions.tumblr.com/

MobileRSS

06 Apr 2010 Leave a Comment

by 無聊達人 in Apple, iPhone, Web Tags: Apple, Application, Google Reader, iPhone, MobileRSS, RSS, Web

If you’re used to consolidate all your feeds by using Google Reader, MobileRSS most likely the best iPhone application work together. First, I have to explain how good to use Google Reader as your RSS reader. It’s portable, as long as you got internet connection and browser, you can read your feeds on the road, overseas wherever. Most important, it keeps a single copy of your feed, you wouldn’t be messed up what’s read or unread. On my mac, I love the free Google Reader client – NetNewsWire. They had their own online feed subscription before but now the free client also using Google Reader as the repository. However, NetNewsWire for iPhone is not that great as the one for Mac. It always crashes especially with Chinese headline, no caching and no trimmed version of the detail. Recently, I addict to MobileRSS, not just because it’s a stable Google Reader client in iPhone. I found the extensible of features just meet my need. The UI looks like any standard iPhone app, but it’s not true! I wonder how they tweak the interface to it so interesting, you can bounce the news list to refresh the page, swipe the news appear different functions, previous and next button or finger stroke feel so good and also can detail the trimmed detail in full screen!

News list and refresh