What's new in Desktop Google Reader 1.4.6
Sep 6, 2012
- Sorting feeds alphabetical is now optional (see preferences window)
New in Desktop Google Reader 1.4.4 (May 7, 2012)
- Taskbar icon overlay (number of unread items) can now be switched off in preferences (Windows Vista / 7 only)
- Maximize button now can be toggled to be fullscreen (as befor) or only normal maximize (taskbar stays visible) in preferences
- List of feeds is now sorted by alphabet
New in Desktop Google Reader 1.4.3 (Apr 21, 2012)
- Renamed Read It Later to Pocket
- Added unread items counter to icon in taskbar (Windows Vista / 7 only)
New in Desktop Google Reader 1.4.2 (Nov 15, 2011)
- This release remove the like and the broadcast buttons as Google Reader stopped supporting them
- Additionally and to have at least a small plus: the login window now automatically logs you in if you stored username and password (no more extra click needed)
- Finally added WebKit .NET to the about window and removed Awesomium
New in Desktop Google Reader 1.4.1 (Jul 29, 2011)
- Changed url shortener for Twitter sending as bit.ly changed the API - now is.gd
- Fixed a bug in installer for Windows Vista/7 UAC problems
New in Desktop Google Reader 1.3.1 Beta 1 (Jun 24, 2010)
- Hotfix: New authentication method of Google Reader
- Google changed the authentication method so this Beta 1 had to be released a little bit earlier than planned. Some interface elements will look not 100% finished but working.
- Add some more social networks:
- Facebook
- Posterous
- del.icio.us
- Diigo
- => they miss some finer posting settings until now (as Twitter does already where you can change the text before posting)
- Rework the social networks preferences pane (not included in Beta 1)
- Fetch 1000 (and not only 100) items
- Some performance tweaks
New in Desktop Google Reader 1.3 (Mar 17, 2010)
- News
- Sharing
- Liking
- Mail item
- Labels / Tags
- Send to Twitter
- Read It Later http://readitlaterlist.com/
- Instapaper http://www.instapaper.com/
- Favicons of feeds shown
- Integrated Chromium browser now has forward / backward controls
- Item title are stripped (no HTML in there anymore)
- Fixed a bug in save/restore of settings (in some environments always old settings had been restored)
New in Desktop Google Reader 1.3 Beta 1 (Mar 17, 2010)
- New features:
- Read it Later included (see http://readitlaterlist.com/)
- Liking added (working: see number of liking users, see if liking yourself, add to liked items)
- Change tags/labels added (fully working but changes not shown in GUI until now)
- Sharing added (sharing works - comments for sharing not - changes not shown in GUI until now)
- Included Chromium browser has now back and forward buttons
- HTML is now stripped from item titles
New in Desktop Google Reader 1.2 (Jan 29, 2010)
- Improved user interface
- Many new options in the now separate preferences dialog
- New notification class showing the number of new items
- If a news item has an image as enclosure this is used in the notification instead of the generic RSS icon integration of the Chromium web rendering engine (which is used by Google Chrome) which is much faster and better than the included with Windows
- Automated update notification if newer version of Desktop Google Reader is released
- (Optional) minimize to tray
- Option to directly show the full web page of the item instead of summary in the news feed if this is activated within the preferences in general, this is activated within the preferences for empty summeraries and/or, the summary is simply just the same as the title
- Custom proxy settings
- Password is now saved encrypted
- Date and time of news item now displayed next to the title
- Snarl notification icon can now be an image within the summary of the feed item (can be disabled in Preferences)
- You now can change the Snarl notification title and text to contain different parts of the feed item
- Multiple newlines are now merged to a single one in notifications
- Automated update now enabled for beta / non beta updates (has been always all before)
- Right clicking a Snarl notification now should mark an item as read as well as remove it from the main window immediatly
- Summarized Snarl notification now uses "item" if it's only one new and "items" if there more than one
- Settings are now migrated on update
- Improved speed of parsing for Snarl notifications (using own threads now)
- Subscribe to new feed window now closes automatically after four seconds if
- subscription has been successfull
- Unsubscribe from feed added
New in Desktop Google Reader 1.2 Beta 1 (Nov 16, 2009)
- Greatly improved user interface
- Many new options in the now separate preferences dialog
- New notification class showing the number of new items
- If a news item has an image as enclosure this is used in the notification instead of the generic RSS icon
- (Experimental) integration of the Chromium web rendering engine (which is used by Google Chrome) which is much faster and better than the included with Windows
- Activate it within the preferences
- it's marked as experimental with some reasons - so did I see some crashes on certain web pages and don't double click within the preview...
- if Chromium is used the temporary saving of summaries to a file is omitted
- Automated update notification if newer version of Desktop Google Reader is released
- (Optional) minimize to tray
- Option to directly show the full web page of the item instead of summary in the news feed if
- .... this is activated within the preferences in general,
- .... this is activated within the preferences for empty summeraries and/or,
- .... the summary is simply just the same as the title
- Custom proxy settings
- in fact this is the main reason why it is called a beta - these settings do not work every time until now :(
- Password is now saved encrypted
- Date and time of news item now displayed next to the title
New in Desktop Google Reader 1.1 (Oct 7, 2009)
- Save settings for user defined values (incl. position and size of window)
- E-Mail-address now saved by default
- Password can now be saved as option (not encrypted!)
- Added Statusbar giving some information on currently running actions
- Changed all communication from HTTP to HTTPS
- Feed title now displayed on top of the items list
- Shown summary includes now a link to the full article
- Adding possibility for simple navigation with arrow keys.
- Added icon to executable
- If started with a command line parameter this is used in the textbox to subscribe to a new feed (this is how e. g. Firefox routes it to RSS readers)
New in Desktop Google Reader 1.0 (Oct 7, 2009)
- Button to mark all items as read at once
- Button to mark all items from one feed as read at once
- Title of currently displayed item displayed seperatly
- Some interface refinements
New in Desktop Google Reader 1.0 Beta 4 (Sep 30, 2009)
- This version features an automated installer and uninstaller
- Main windows title changed - unread items first which can be better seen in taskbar
- Fixes problems with some proxy configurations
New in Desktop Google Reader 1.0 Beta 3 (Sep 5, 2009)
- Snarl notification system support (see http://www.fullphat.net/)
- Click on the notification with the left mouse button to open the source news in your default browser and with the right mouse button to mark it as read
- Polling interval can be changed
- You can subscribe to a new feed directly in Desktop Google Reader
- You can limit the text length displayed in a Snarl notification
- Interface has been reworked
- About page has been added
- Refresh now button added
- UTF-8 characters are now shown correctly
- Some issues on bad Internet connections resolved
New in Desktop Google Reader Beta 2 (Sep 4, 2009)
- This release contains fix for authentication mechanism, so it's possible to login to Google Reader again.