Google Apps Hacks

192 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

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Gmail does have an RSS feed at http://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom (see Chapter 5).

However, this feed requires authentication, as it contains your private data, so you can’t subscribe

to it using Google Reader (even when you try using the format https://username:password@

gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom). You might be able to access it using other RSS readers,

though; for instance, the Windows desktop program SharpReader at http://sharpreader.net

supports this. As with any application that asks for your Google Account credentials, provide

these details only when you trust the program’s creators, as well as whatever security model they

use to protect your credentials.

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To see newly published documents, spreadsheets, or presentations, you can access the Google

Docs  feed. Go to http://docs.google.com and click the Settings link on top. Switch to the

RSS Feeds tab and click the “view feed” link to add it to Google Reader. By default, only public Docs

documents will reveal their title along with a snippet, although you can change this setting in the

RSS Feeds tab.

In addition to subscribing to a general feed covering all your documents in Google Docs, you can

also open a single document and subscribe to its RSS feed, which you will nd in the Publish tab;

the link is named Subscribe and is accompanied ...