As most of you know, I love going through your feeds. I live for them. My reader of choice of course is Google Reader. It’s web based so I can check in whereever I have an internet connection, which is a main reason why I use a lot of Google’s services.
A few months ago they released something called Google Gears which allows you to take your new feed items offline. At first I thought to myself, this defeats the purpose of having a web based RSS reader. Then it hit me, I get the best of both worlds. I’m live when I have an internet connection and can go offline when I’m on a plane or somewhere that doesn’t have an internet connection. SCORE!
Well the guys over there in the labs have done it again. They’ve added some new features that I’m just as excited about. First off, a FRAKING SEARCH BAR!!! I mean you would think this is something simple from the guys at Google but until now there hasn’t been one. Second, the “All Items” count can now go up to 1000+ instead of just 100+ which is a good thing for me since I tend to get behind in my new items very quickly. Also, you can now hide the side navigation by clicking on the separator to its right, and Reader now behaves like every other web page and lets you use the forward and back buttons to move between folders and subscriptions that you’ve navigated to.
I love Google Reader now more than ever. Thank you Google. For the latest on Google Reader check out their Official Blog.
(EDIT) A few people have asked me abou some of my reader stats so I thought I would put them in here. They are as of today (9/10/07):
From your 140 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 6,089 items, starred 16 items, shared 23 items, and emailed 0 items.
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I love google reader too. I didn’t know they had an offline feature–very cool, just for the reasons you mentioned–I’ll have to check that out. To hide the sidebar, I’ve been pushing the “u” key–try it–I’ve been doing it that way for months now.
yeah, i tried migrating a couple of times but i always end up back at google reader. the new features are awesome — especially the search.
i’m happy with feeddemon which syncs with newsgator online
145 feeds? What are you trying to catch up too scoble? Time to go on a feed diet and get rid of the un-important ones.
-Jeff
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i have been using Google Reader for many months now. THE BEST thing. love it.