Does anyone have suggestions for Mac RSS readers that sync with google reader? I'd like the sync because I use Reeder on iOS.
Then why not use its bigger brother http://reederapp.com/mac/index
Poor reviews, no ability to test it before paying $10.
Ex Google PM criticizes new Reader layout
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Re: Ex Google PM criticizes new Reader layout
#12This user style was posted in the reddit comments: http://userstyles.org/styles/55556/google-reader-new-interfa...
Nice. This fixes many of the worst issues with excess whitespace, lack of visual separation or contrast, highlighting the most useless button on the screen, etc. Thanks for the pointer.
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#13Does anyone have suggestions for Mac RSS readers that sync with google reader? I'd like the sync because I use Reeder on iOS.
NetNewsWire is the longstanding veteran Mac rss reader. I think it's great.
Re: Ex Google PM criticizes new Reader layout
#14I dislike the new layout mostly because it wastes a lot of vertical space, particularly the fixed top part. Here's the user style I use to neutralise it:
#top-bar { height: auto; }
#search { padding: 8px 0; }
#lhn-add-subscription-section { height: 48px; }
#viewer-header { height: 48px; }
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#15I don't care for the new interface and I agree that it's slower, but that may just be because I'm not accustomed to the look. GUI changes are minor to me and easily fixed with a greasemonkey script anyway. The real problem is that they stripped out tons of functionality and didn't replace it with anything. Google+ is not integrated. They added a button to share in google+ . That's all. that's not integration. There i…
> There is no way to get my friend's content on google+ back into google reader.
PlusFeed is an unofficial AppEngine service that exposes Google+ posts as RSS. You can then subscribe to the PlusFeed RSS URL in Google Reader. Unfortunately, PlusFeed can only see other people's public Google+ posts (since it's not logged in as you).
I wrote this JavaScript bookmarklet to open the appropriate PlusFeed RSS URL for the Google+ user page you are looking at:
javascript:void(open("http://plusfeed2.appspot.com/+location.href.match(/^https?:\/\/plus\.google\.com\/(\d{21})\/?.*$/)[1]));Re: Ex Google PM criticizes new Reader layout
#16I like using Reader to manage my feed subscriptions, but nothing more. I don't want to share my content on any social network. Nor do I want to view the content in an iframe. I would prefer to just click the row of the feed item and have it open in my browser like normal links. So for me the gui updates are sort of mixed. I agree its wasting a whole lot of screen space, but overall I like that it shares the same look…
Are you aware of the keyboard shortcuts?
"f" toggles fullscreen mode
"2" toggles list mode
"?" shows all shortcuts
Re: Ex Google PM criticizes new Reader layout
#17I wouldn't miss the old design too much if there were a chance to adjust the display density. So, where's the switch to change that? If this were consistent in design, I'd expect it to be around the same location as in Gmail. But it's just not there.
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#19I like using Reader to manage my feed subscriptions, but nothing more. I don't want to share my content on any social network. Nor do I want to view the content in an iframe. I would prefer to just click the row of the feed item and have it open in my browser like normal links. So for me the gui updates are sort of mixed. I agree its wasting a whole lot of screen space, but overall I like that it shares the same look…
Are you aware of the keyboard shortcuts? "f" toggles fullscreen mode "2" toggles list mode "?" shows all shortcuts
Yeah, I am aware of them. The problem is I want to just click the item and have it open in my browser, rather than show me a summary or embedded view of it. That is not possible with Reader.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Poor reviews, no ability to test it before paying $10.
Reeder for mac is an amazing piece of software; I cannot recommend it enough.
Thanks for the info.
I am in the same boat as grk. I wanted to try it, but $10 seemed to pass that 'oh its only a dollar or two, what the hell' threshold. Couple that with the poor reviews for the mac version, and I was dissuaded.