April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
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195 - GET ALERTS FOR NEW BLOG POSTS
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Feed reader Bloglines offers an export function to the left side
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Display the number of unread Reader items in your browser status
bar. It’s the fastest way—hands down—to catch the latest news.
You can check Google Reader for new items by just visiting it at http://reader.google.com—or, if
you’re using the Firefox browser, you can install a little notier to tell you how many new items are
waiting for you.
To get this add-on, point Firefox to https://addons.mozilla.org/refox/3977 and click the Install
Now button. After installation, you are required to restart your browser. When you do this, an
options dialog from the new Notier extension will greet you, as shown in Figure 8-9. If you trust this
extension’s author and are condent that he will keep your information private, you can now provide
your Google Account username and password. You can leave the other options set to their default
values for now and conrm the dialog by hitting the OK button.
Google Reader’s import dialog
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In the bottom right of Firefox, notice the new icon pictured in Figure 8-10. It indicates the number
of currently unread posts in Google Reader, and shows some more context information ...
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.