Joel Calado

Google reader, now 120% more Awesome!

Tired of fooling around trying to find a good counterpart for Byline for my desktop mac, i turned to something i didn’t want to: a SSB solution.

SSB stands for Site Specific Browser, and my goal was to have some kind of desktop interaction (mainly an app i can fire up using an icon).

After fiddling around with Fluid and some userstyles, i’ve got myself a google reader app that can show me how many new feed items i’ve got to read on a dock badge.

And it looks good while doing it:

The userstyle came from userstyles.org, and the dock badge JS is the following:

// UserScript

// name        Google Reader
// namespace   http://fluidapp.com

// description Reader features for Fluid
// include     http://google.com/reader/*

// include     http://*.google.com/reader/*
// author      Todd Ditchendorf

// /UserScript


	
(function() {
    if (!window.fluid) {
        return;
    }

    var fluid_unread = 0;

    window.fluid.addDockMenuItem(“Refresh”, function() { Q.refresh(); });

    function updateDockBadge() {
        var title = document.title;
        var old_fluid_unread = fluid_unread || 0;

        if (title && title.length) {
            var start = title.indexOf(”(”);
            var end = title.indexOf(”)”);
            if (start > -1 && end > -1) {
                start++;
                fluid_unread = title.substring(start, end);
            } else {
                fluid_unread = 0;
            }
        }

        //set the dock badge
        if ((fluid_unread || 0) > 0) {
            window.fluid.setDockBadge(fluid_unread);
        } else {
            window.fluid.setDockBadge(”“);  
        }

        //growl if there are more unread items than last time
        if ((fluid_unread || 0) > old_fluid_unread) {
            fluid.showGrowlNotification({
                title: “Google Reader”,
                description: (fluid_unread || “”) + “ unread item(s)”,
                priority: 3,
                sticky: false
            });
        }
    }
    setInterval(function(){updateDockBadge();}, 3000);
})();

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I’m a Mac, will you marry me?

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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Confucius

Sonic the Hedgehog for iPhone is in fact a Genesis emulator

http://macenstein.com/default/archives/4227

So, apparently on a jailbroken iPhone you can snoop around the app bundle and find a file named “rom.bin”.

Change it with some other genesis rom and you’ve got yourself a new game.

Sega, that’s a big no-no! I’m surely not paying €5 for a bastard game…

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A ter que eleger um “momento da semana”, seria sem dúvida este!

Marinho Pinto a dar na cabeça da Manuela Moura Guedes, sem dó nem piedade. Finalmente alguém tem a coragem de dizer umas quantas verdades…