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Just a quick note as a reminder about my Google Shared Items, its kind of like Delicious but easier as I just press "Share". You can also find them on my About page.

Hicks has updated his gReader beautifier to 1.31.

There's no need to use Yahoo Pipes to access authenticated feeds # for Daring Fireball as John Gruber has now made all feeds publicly accessible. Though if you're a DF member then you may still want to try Yahoo Pipes as the DF public feeds have ads.

For now, the members-only feeds continue to work, unchanged. As stated above, however, this experiment with an open-to-all full-content feed is as much for the benefit of members as it is for non-members. By far, the single most common request for the member feeds is to find a way to make them work with Google Reader. This is it. #

Yes, sort it Google, where's our authenticated feeds? You should be ashamed that Yahoo have come in and plugged this gap.

When I had a look at various online feed readers about 8 months ago I dont think Google's Reader even existed - it's certainly not been particularly useable up until a few weeks ago.

Google Reader is far more user friendly now, with a clear layout and a clever AJAX (Im guessing) trick where it marks posts as read as you scroll through them. Theres also a neat little bookmark bar 'Next »' button which Ive been using a lot lately. It steps you through your unread posts from post to post in the actual web browser, viewing the original site, rather than formatted by and in the feed reader - which is nice.

I just wish I could use it in combination with NetNewsWire in the same way that I do with NewsGator, as I dont think I could move entirely away from NetNewsWire. I tried it with FeedLounge and whilst that is, Id wager, the best web based reader out there, it does cost money and I still had to go back to NetNewsWire after a few months using FeedLounge.

So come on Google and NetNewsWire developers - work together.

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