New Google Reader is like SHIT

With the new Google Reader interface becomes like shit, all my notes in Reader gone.

After some googling, then I manage to find back my note in Reader.

To access the notes:

• http://www.google.com/reader/view/user/-/state/com.google/created

To access the RSS feed of the notes:

• http://www.google.com/reader/atom/user/-/state/com.google/created

To limit to 100 notes to display:

• http://www.google.com/reader/atom/user/-/state/com.google/created?n=100

P/s: the new Google Reader is damn slow in performance.

Google Reader Unreachable

The app is currently unreachable.

Make PDF in Google Reader

I use Google Reader a lot, to read RSS feeds. Here's a tip on create a sendto to print the post as PDF.

At your Google Reader settings page, at the "Send To" tab, click "custom link".

• Name: Joliprint
• URL: http://api.joliprint.com/api/rest/url/print/s/googlereader?url=${url}
• Icon URL: http://api.joliprint.com/buttons/joliprint-icon.png

Or you may prefer to add a bookmarklet at here.

Note in Reader Bookmarklet

Today, I learn how to use Google Reader as my bookmark service. I can even create a shortcut to store any interesting article with highlight.

Steps:

1. Goto Google Reader, Notes section (upper left corner).
2. Drag the bookmarklet to your bookmark bar.
3. Add the link to Google Chrome Search Engine (create shortcut).

To add into Note in Reader:

• Browse to any interesting article, and highlight the sentence you like.
• Either click on the bookmarklet;
• Or type the shortcut at the address bar.
• You may tag what you store in the note too.

Advantages:

• You can easily search your bookmark items with Google Reader.
• The bookmark service cache the post even the website is down.
• Can keep items unread.
• Easily share them (as they are treated as feeds).

Creating Google Reader Web Apps with Google Chrome for Fun

I tried some fun stuffs on Google Chrome Web Apps today. I've created a web apps for Google Reader in Google Chrome.

Please refer to the document here for the detail steps. Before you begin, here's the pre-requisite:

• Must be on Dev channel already. I'm using 6.0.490.1 dev.
• Successful install the 3 sample web apps from Google.

Now, make an empty folder to store all your files there.

• Download Google Reader icons files (all: 32,48, 64, 128) from here and put in the the folder.
• Create a blank text file called "manifest.json", and paste the following into it.

{

  "name": "Google Reader",

  "description": "Read your rss",

  "version": "1",

  "app": {

    "urls": [

      "*://www.google.com/reader/view/",

      "*://www.google.com/reader/"

    ],

    "browse_urls": [

      "https://www.google.com/accounts/"

    ],

    "launch": {

      "web_url": "http://www.google.com/reader/"

    }

  },

  "icons": {

    "32": "32.png",

    "48": "48.png",

    "64": "64.png",

    "128": "128.png"

  },

  "permissions": [

    "unlimited_storage",

    "notifications"

  ]

}

• Goto chrome extension page to load unpacked extension (like how you load the 2 samples).

Congratulation, you just create your first web apps! Here is the screenshot on my laptop (press ctrl-T).

Google Reader Lite

Recently, Google Reader homepage has been updated with a small feed reader on 3 feed categories: News, Popular, Sport.

You can access this Google Reader lite directly instead of via iFrame.