Desktop Google Reader
Desktop Google Reader is a desktop client to Google's popular RSS agregator services. It is focused on on the most important things you do with Google Reader - read, mark as read and starr items. In addition and in combination with the notification system Snarl (see
http://www.fullphat.net/ it gives you nice popup notifications on your newly arriving news feed items.
Please let us know which features you would like to have at
http://desktopgooglereader.codeplex.com/Thread/View.aspx?ThreadId=66172.
It needs the
.NET framework 3.5 SP1 in order to run.
Screenshots
Example notifications using the Snarl.
Main window
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News
Version 1.3 - the social release - released (2010-03-16)
New Features:
- Sharing
- Liking
- Mail item
- Labels / Tags
- Send to Twitter
- Read It Later http://readitlaterlist.com/
- Instapaper http://www.instapaper.com/
- Favicons of feeds shown
- Integrated Chromium browser now has forward / backward controls
- Item title are stripped (no HTML in there anymore)
- Fixed a bug in save/restore of settings (in some environments always old settings had been restored)
Version 1.3 Beta 1 released (2010-02-23)
New features:
- Read it Later included (see http://readitlaterlist.com/)
- Liking added (working: see number of liking users, see if liking yourself, add to liked items)
- Change tags/labels added (fully working but changes not shown in GUI until now)
- Sharing added (sharing works - comments for sharing not - changes not shown in GUI until now)
- Included Chromium browser has now back and forward buttons
- HTML is now stripped from item titles
This is a
real beta release meaning all the new features may cause some unexpected behavior at the moment. Read It Later support should be working completely already
see
http://desktopgooglereader.codeplex.com/releases/view/40920
Version 1.2 released (2010-01-28)
New featuresImproved user interface
Many new options in the now separate preferences dialog
New notification class showing the number of new items
If a news item has an image as enclosure this is used in the notification instead of the generic RSS icon
integration of the Chromium web rendering engine (which is used by Google Chrome) which is much faster and better than the included with Windows
Automated update notification if newer version of Desktop Google Reader is released
(Optional) minimize to tray
Option to directly show the full web page of the item instead of summary in the news feed if
- this is activated within the preferences in general,
- this is activated within the preferences for empty summeraries and/or,
- the summary is simply just the same as the title
Custom proxy settings
Password is now saved encrypted
Date and time of news item now displayed next to the title
Snarl notification icon can now be an image within the summary of the feed item (can be disabled in Preferences)
You now can change the Snarl notification title and text to contain different parts of the feed item
Multiple newlines are now merged to a single one in notifications
Automated update now enabled for beta / non beta updates (has been always all before)
Right clicking a Snarl notification now should mark an item as read as well as remove it from the main window immediatly
Summarized Snarl notification now uses "item" if it's only one new and "items" if there more than one
Settings are now migrated on update
Improved speed of parsing for Snarl notifications (using own threads now)
Subscribe to new feed window now closes automatically after four seconds if subscription has been successfull
Unsubscribe from feed added
Version 1.2 Beta 1 released (2009-11-14)
Today we announce the immediate availability of the first beta of our next version of Desktop Google Reader. There is a very long of changes - find the most important below and the complete list at
http://desktopgooglereader.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=35544
New features since release 1.1:
- Greatly improved user interface
- Many new options in the now separate preferences dialog
- New notification class showing the number of new items
- (Experimental) integration of the Chromium web rendering engine (which is used by Google Chrome) which is much faster and better than the included with Windows
- Automated update notification if newer version of Desktop Google Reader is released
- (Optional) minimize to tray
And much more - see
http://desktopgooglereader.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=35544Let us know if you like the changes - the list of ideas and wishes stays long :)
Version 1.1 released (2009-10-03)
Many improvements in many points for the daily usage. Try out navigating through your items using the arrow keys as well as the delete key.
See
http://desktopgooglereader.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=33911 for all changes in this release
Version 1.0 released (2009-09-05)
We are very, very happy to finally ship today the first final version of Desktop Google Reader. It has been tested as much as possible (being our own main RSS reader) and as far as we can say the features included seem to work without any problems.
New features compared to the last Beta 4:
- Button to mark all items as read at once
- Button to mark all items from one feed as read at once
- Title of currently displayed item displayed seperatly
- Some interface refinements
While this 1.0 version is out the work on 1.1 with some more features has already been started...
Version 1.0 Beta 4 has been released (2009-08-14)
Main new feature of this release is an automated setup and uninstaller.
It also fixes some minor issues.
Version 1.0 Beta 3 has been released (2009-08-13)
We are very happy to announce today the third beta version of our Desktop Google Reader.
New in this release
- Snarl notification system support (see http://www.fullphat.net/)
- Click on the notification with the left mouse button to open the source news in your default browser and with the right mouse button to mark it as read
- Polling interval can be changed
- You can subscribe to a new feed directly in Desktop Google Reader
- You can limit the text length displayed in a Snarl notification
- Interface has been reworked
- About page has been added
- Refresh now button added
- UTF-8 characters are now shown correctly
- Some issues on bad Internet connections resolved
Please let us know how this version is doing for you
Additional features planned for the first Release Candidate
- Mark all items in one feed as read
- Mark all items in all feeds as read
- A little bit more interface cleanup
- Setup program
Release Candidate 1 is rescheduled now for first half of September