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If you use Google Reader's list view (instead of expanded), you want to scan headlines and selectively mark several items as read without having to expand them--and a new Greasemonkey user script, Google Reader Mark Selected as Read, lets you do just that.
Click here to install Google Reader Mark Selected as Read (you must have the Greasemonkey Firefox extension installed first), and your subscription headlines will show up with checkboxes next to each. Check the ones you don't want to read, and press the "Mark selected as read" button as shown in the screenshot. This super-useful script is written by Dmitry Rodiontsev and slated for the next release of Better GReader. Thanks, Dmitry and bel9ev!
Update: Reader leifern reminds us that from the keyboard you can move up and down headlines in list view using the n and p keys, and mark items as read as you go using the m key. So this user script is for the mouse-fans in the room. Thanks, leifern!
Google Reader Mark Selected as Read user script
Better GReader Gets Helvetireader · The latest version of the Better GReader Firefox extension for Google Reader now includes the gorgeous Helvetireader skin thanks to the generosity of Jon Hicks. Version 0.8 also includes the Smart Google Subscriber script as a newer alternative to Mihai Parparita's 2006 Smart Subscribe, plus several updates. Download Better GReader 0.8 from Mozilla Add-ons. · September 22nd, 2009, 5 comments
The information you keep in Google apps like Gmail, GCal, Reader, and Voice doesn't just live in one place. There are a few easy but non-obvious ways to plug different Google apps together and share their data and features.
Thanks to things like Labs and gadgets, you can get your Calendar in Gmail (and vice versa), Docs in Calendar and Gmail, Profile info in Google Reader, Google Voice SMS in your Gmail, and just about everything on iGoogle. Here's how.
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On each new episode of This Week in Google (details) I’ll highlight a tip for using cloud/Google apps smarter, faster, and better. I’ll document those tips here.
You use Firefox, you keep Gmail and Google Reader open at all times, and you wish they didn't take up so much space in the tab bar. (Maybe you're on a netbook, or maybe you've always got a dozen tabs open at once, so real estate is scarce.) You can permanently affix the Gmail and Reader tabs in your tab bar, reduce them to show the tab favicon only, and display the number of unread items in each using a collection of Firefox add-ons. See what it looks like in the image above: the Gmail and Reader tabs are on the far left, icon-only, with unread item counts--19 unread messages and 1k+ unread items (yikes!)--on the icons themselves.
To reproduce this setup in your own copy of Firefox, you'll need four Firefox add-ons which I've put all together in a single collection. Install all the add-ons in the Icon-Only Perma-Tabs for Gmail and Google Reader collection. Restart Firefox.
Then, in Better Gmail 2, make sure "Unread Message Count in Favicon" is checked. In Better GReader, make sure "Show Unread Count in Favicon" is checked. Open Gmail and Google Reader in new tabs. Right-click on those tabs, and choose "Faviconize tab." Then, to make them permanent (i.e., open automatically every time you launch Firefox), right-click again and choose "Permatabs->Permanent Tab." Once you're done, whenever you launch Firefox or even hit "Close All Tabs," your icon-only perma-tabs containing Gmail and GReader will persist. (Hat tip to the Lifehacker reader who reminded me of this cool trick!)
Just released an update to my Firefox add-on, Better GReader 0.7.2, which contains a few fixes plus a new integrated print button. Huge thanks to the folks at Mozilla for making Better GReader one of their official "Recommended" add-ons; it's now got over 33,000 active daily users (relatively small compared to Better Gmail 2's 304,000 daily users).
As always, a lively conversation about all the Better Webapps add-ons is going on on the mailing list. Hit us up with questions, problems, or requests there.
Download Better GReader and let us know what you think. My favorite feature: "Preview Item," which loads the originating web page right inside Google Reader.
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