http://jonathanj.vox.com/library/posts/tags/reader/page/1/ When you meet a man who is not a poet, do not show him your poem. en Vox Thu, 10 May 2007 11:44:44 +0200 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss reader http://jonathanj.vox.com/library/post/google-reader-notifier.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(jonathanj) http://jonathanj.vox.com/library/post/google-reader-notifier.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://jonathanj.vox.com/library/post/google-reader-notifier.html?_c=feed-rss-full Thu, 10 May 2007 11:44:44 +0200 <p>Up until recent months, I&#39;d been using <a href="http://www.feedreader.com/">FeedReader</a> to keep track of my RSS feeds. While not completely terrible, it had enough annoyances for me to start looking at other readers. Enter <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/">Google Reader</a>, which has so far been a relatively (searching/filter posts would be a very welcome feature) pleasant experience. Something that FeedReader used to do was a toaster pop-up with information about new or unread items, which is a reasonably useful feature as I&#39;m not able to look at my feeds as often as I&#39;d like to, so I wrote my own notifier.</p> <div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00cd972815d04cd500d41436c9d03c7f" at:format="medium" at:align="left" class="enclosure enclosure-left enclosure-medium photo-enclosure" style="text-align: center; float: left;"> <div class="enclosure-inner" style="padding: 9px; border: 1px solid; width: px; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" > <div class="enclosure-list"> <div class="enclosure-item photo-asset last"> <div class="enclosure-image"> <a href="http://jonathanj.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cd972815d04cd500d41436c9d03c7f.html"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00cd972815d04cd500d41436c9d03c7f-200pi" alt="Google Reader Notifier" title="Google Reader Notifier" /></a> </div> <div class="enclosure-meta"> <div class="enclosure-asset-name"><a href="http://jonathanj.vox.com/library/photo/6a00cd972815d04cd500d41436c9d03c7f.html" title="Google Reader Notifier">Google Reader Notifier</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- end enclosure --> <p> I am aware that <a href="http://www.google.com/search?&amp;q=google%20reader%20notifier">others exist</a>, but they are either crap or a Firefox extension. As I don&#39;t always leave my browser open, I decided to make it a notification icon and I decided to code it in <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/IronPython">IronPython</a>, as a little exercise and because it was the easiest. Simple enough to use, make sure you have (at least) IronPython 1.0 installed, run it with&#160; <code>ipyw.exe grnotify.py</code> (to avoid leaving a console window behind), set up the options and you&#39;re done. You can &quot;install&quot; it to your startup folder by running it with <code>ipy.exe grnotify.py -install</code>. The source is available in my darcs repo at <a href="http://slipgate.za.net/%7Ekorpse/darcs/grn">http://slipgate.za.net/~korpse/darcs/grn</a>. </p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://jonathanj.vox.com/library/post/google-reader-notifier.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00cd972815d04cd500cd9728c0c84cd5?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> google reader ironpython grn