As you know, I have been testing Google Reader against Bloglines. With Bloglines, I use a Dashboard Widget to see how many items in my feeds I have not seen. I wanted the same thing for Google Reader, but the only thing available was a desktop program but not a widget.
So Ronnie, my brother, put a Google Reader Dashboard Widget together for me. It can be used by any Mac user running Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
It is a simply program that tells you the number of items you have not read in Google Reader. To use it, just go to the Google Reader Dashboard Widget page, download it, install it and plugin your Google Reader account info. Bang, it works.
I actually asked Ronnie to mimic the style of the Bloglines Widget, so that they look nice side by side. I have mine lined up like this:
So get yourself a Google Reader Dashboard Widget.
Comments
Sweet! Very cool. :)
Do the 59 vs. 197 numbers mean that you have to read 3x as many posts in Bloglines because someone changed a character here or there? ;)
Posted by: Matt Cutts | March 1, 2007 3:26 PM
Not really.
Google Reader doesn't show an exact number of items not read in Google Reader, if there are more than a 100 items (at least I didn't see it).
So I quickly marked items as read until I was able to reconcile the Google Reader numbers with the dashboard widget.
Now, will I switch... That is for a post next week.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | March 1, 2007 4:14 PM