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Google Reader Notifer: Firefox add-on of the day
by Ryan Sullivan Mar 5th 2007 at 8:00AM
Normally I always have two tabs open in Firefox; one for Pandora and the other for Google reader. I would always have to go back and forth between both tabs in order to refresh reader, sort of an obsessive compulsive thing. But now, with Google Reader Notifier, I can just camp out on the Pandora tab until I get some new stories.
The reason I no longer need to go to my reader tab is because a built in function lets you click on the Google Reader Notifier icon to refresh the number of unread stories. A slick feature of this notifier is that you can customize your mouse buttons to do different things, such as update your count as well as open Google reader in a new tab. You also have the option of customizing how often it refreshes. Another great feature is that the count will give the exact number, even if it is above 100.
Thanks Ben!
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Jason said 11:03AM on 3-05-2007
Unfortunately, this lacks the ability to only show when unread items exist for feeds of a certain tag or folder. I have too many feeds to get any use out of being told that any one of them has an unread item.
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Brett said 11:54AM on 3-05-2007
Dump that other tab too. OpenPandora! Which I read about first here. Good to know you guys read each others stuff. ;)
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