Ok, I must say that lately the features Google has seen fit to add to its reader client have been less than optimal (anyone say "like it" button) with most adding no extra function with the cost of more screen real-estate. Well, now it looks like we may actually be seeing some good from the ever changing google cloud world.
The first of these addresses a problem i have had from day one, RSS overload. You surely have experienced this too. Every time you go on vacation or some obscure auntie comes for a multi-day visit your precious (yes, insert a golum voice there if you wish) rss feed will simply go bonanza. On the rare occasion that i am actually away from the dear interwebs for a week i can come back to find 1000+ entries in my reader. As much as i love reading unfounded iTablet rumors as much as the next man i really don't need to see 30 columnists WAGs spanning 300+ entries (all word for word copies of each others, each extolling the identical virtues of a device we have never seen, has never been specced and oh yes, we aren't actually sure if it exists). Well now google has fixed all of that in a simple pull down from the read bar. Now reading through one solid day of feeds is much more manageable than a weeks worth or more (not that I ever usually let mine go more than a couple hours but... I need to get out more).
The second new treat from google is what you will see below here. Now I can has other peoples blog posts without even having to copy and paste. Simply brilliant if you ask me. Honestly though I really do like the ability to forward strait here to blogger if I want to comment on something or straight to twitter if I want friends and company to immediately look at something. All in all nice additions Google. Now if only you would add the "remove like it button" link to your options screen....
Google Reader Adds Social Sharing and Mark as Read Controls [Feeds]: "
The Google Reader team's been busy of late, adding social network sharing and friend following features, but also giving power users a (long-awaited) ability to mark items of a certain age as read.
Most noticeable, on an item-by-item basis, is the new 'send to' menu. Head to Google Reader's settings, click off the social networks you want to add access to (or manually add a URL, if you're hack-friendly like that), and they'll appear on the send to menu. Reader will also notify you when friends you're following in Reader have web sites with feeds attached in their Google Profiles.
But the most important changes, for those using Reader to get their news reading done, are the Mark as Read tweaks. It's not a custom search by date, exactly, but it does let you skip through a huge pile of unread items after, say, a long weekend, week's vacation, or general absence from your feed reader. You get the ability to mark items older than one day, one week, or two weeks as read, which is a pretty good start.
A few other changes are in effect for mobile users and note sharing, so hit the link to learn about them, and share what you're able to do now, or what you don't really like about Reader's changes, in the comments.
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See above image for everything you need to know. 4 hours for that is not right on N plus i can barely post this blog while its doing it cause it is sucking all the interwebs away. i have downloaded things faster than this... To make things even cheerier, this also makes anything else in finder run impossibly slow/freeze (yes apparently changing the volume is too taxing). As soon as the transfer is done finder tries to execute my last half dozen commands all at once. How was this not caught before snow leopard went gold?
