May 27, 2010 26
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