May 27, 2010
Reader Notifier Reloaded
Hi,
I’m using Google Reader, as an aggregator for all the feeds that I want to follow. Great! So I don’t have to keep those 6 tabs open in my favorite browser, right? Well, kind of. The problem resides in the fact that then I would still have my mail and calendar open. And google reader. And …
Mike and me have been looking around for a solution to this and stumbled across Reader Notifier. It’s a small MacOSX application that resides in the Menu bar and notifies you when new items are available.
Since the code was publicly available we decided to have a look at it… Well, after coding for a while for iPhone and Mac applications we could tell immediately that we could have improved the code and possibly the application functionalities. Now Reader Notifier Reloaded is born. We keep the code open, so that everyone can just fork it, modify it, have a look at it, …
Currently Reader Notifier Reloaded lets you:
- Be notified through Growl about new unread items
- Mark all your feeds as read
- Read the feed directly through the menu application
- Star an item
- Automatic updates
And all of this with a much more structured code than the original and without any memory leaks (well, there were many and we managed to remove them all, hopefully).
A stable version is downloadable from github
If you have feature requests, find bugs or just want to get involved with the project, drop us a note either here or on github.
-Mike and Claudio
hello. is RNR broken, now, as a result of google’s many recent changes?
Hi Mark,
I don’t have time to check Reader Notifier, and I’m not using it anymore, so I cannot help with it, sorry!
I’ve put a source for a fix at https://github.com/alanshutko/readernotifier.
I haven’t put up a binary yet, since I need to fix sparkle first. But the source is there.
getting a lot of duplicate pages when I choose “open all items” repeatedly.
Hi
I am facing 2 issues.
1. There is no growl notifications coming, but sound is coming.
2. It doesn’t start automatically when I restart.
Hi,
Nice piece of code you got there.
I have 2 issues. I am using Snow Leopard
- I am not getting Growl notification as Google Notifier, though I do hear the sound.
- I am unable to get the Reader Notifier Reloaded start automatically when the system boots up.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
guys, this is an awesome piece.
there’s still one slight thing that I would improve: when calling reloaded from a launcher, it should open directly the reader in the default browser, a-la google notifier if you know what I mean. At the moment, it does nothing. That would be perfect, because your ‘Go to google reader’ opens the correct account, which this shitty google notifier doesn’t know how to do.
Cheers!
I’m running 2.2.3 on Mac OS 10.5.8 and still get the ‘couldn’t connect’ dialog box popping up all the time, especially when waking from sleep (even though there is a constant WiFi connection)… Any plans to fix this? Could you maybe add an option to disable this notification? Great program, but very annoying bug. Keep up the great work!
Hi, I would also like it if you added an option to disable the modal dialog. The exclamation point icon is enough for me.
[...] Mike Godenzi’s Blog Veröffentlicht: August 13, 2010 Kategorie: Nerdkram Kommentieren Name: [...]
is there anyway to have this automatically open every time the computer is started? Sorry if thats obvious and something i’m missing. great otherwise though
you can add it to your startup items: System Preferences -> Accounts -> the list on the right
RE,
IT’S GOOD, now…
Just after the reboot.
Hello,
This program is fabulous ;)
But i have the same problem, when the program update, he ask me a authorize whenever…
it’s quite annoying.
Sorry for my english, i’m french…
thank you in advance
this is fixed in the next release.
I rebuilt the latest source from Github and it worked, so it seems the binary wasn’t updated. It works perfectly now anyhow! Just wanted to let you know.
Thank you for letting me know, I’ll check whats wrong with the latest upload to github.
Hmmm, I just tried to build from source and got the same error on my home machine (last attempt was at work). So, still not working for me even when building from source. I even tried blowing away the Reader Notifier cache and preferences.
We’ve nailed down the problem and working on a solution. Please stay tuned! :)
It is now fully working with latest version 2.2.2 which should be available through the automatic update in minutes. Regards. C&M
Hey!
I’m also super-glad that you’ve adopted the program! I use reader notifier all the time and got worried when the original author dropped it.
I am getting the same problem as Brian with version 2.2 though.
Is the binary for 2.2 on Github including the “now working again” commit as of 3 days ago?
I’m gonna try to compile it myself and see if that helps.
Well, network connectivity is fine, shows that it checked for posts “less than a minute” ago. Re-entered userid/password and it said connected to google. Restarted app and still shows the exclamation. Reader notifier (not reloaded) just stopped working for me, so wonder if Google is rolling out some Reader changes and I’ve got something new? No proxy or any other network pieces between google and I. The web-based reader works fine and shows 108 unread items.
Thank you so much for picking up this project. I loved the original Reader Notifier and was really miffed when it stopped working a few days ago. Took me a while to find your new forked version, but I’m happy I did.
Hi, stumbled across this today when the version that I modified when Snow Leopard came out stopped working. I grabbed version 2.2 and it is giving me the exclamation point even though I have unread items. Thanks for adopting this project since the original author is MIA; I use it everyday and it would be sad to see it go away.
Thanks,
Brian
Hi Brian,
I’m glad to hear someone is using it. If I’m not mistaken the “esclamation point” stands for when there is a network error. It could be that it retrieved some unread items, then some network connection problem happened and therefore you had that icon.
Let me know something more, instead, if it is a recurring problem.
Regards,
~Claudio