Chrome Reader Subscribes to RSS Feeds in Google Reader With a Single Click

I love the Chrome browser and use it all the time. This extension is a nice addition to the combo of google reader and chrome.



Chrome only: Google Chrome extension Chrome Reader subscribes to RSS feeds in your Google Reader account with a single click, and even changes the icon for sites you've already subscribed to.
Once you've installed the Chrome Reader extension, you'll see a new icon in the location bar—click the icon once to subscribe, and optionally add to a folder, and once you've already subscribed to a site, the icon will change to a blue Google Reader icon to indicate that you're already subscribed. If you're both a  Google Reader and Chrome user, this extension is by far the easiest way to build your subscription list without clicking through a number of times.

Chrome Reader [Google Chrome Extensions via How-To Geek]

Rapportive Makes Gmail More Useful

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Rapportive is a free browser plugin (available as both a Firefox add-on and as a Chrome extension) for that replaces the adverts in Gmail’s sidebar with useful information about your contacts: a photo, bio and links to social media accounts (Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, etc). It provides similar functionality to Xobni, the popular plugin for Outlook that we’ve covered previously, and MailBrowser, a third-party Gmail extension app that I wrote about back in January.



Installation is simple and takes less than a couple of minutes, and as it’s just a browser plugin it provides a neater solution than MailBrowser, because it doesn’t require you running a separate application for it to work. Once it’s set up, clicking on an email will pull up the sender’s biographical information in Gmail’s right-hand sidebar (where adverts are normally served) and links to their social media accounts; you can also use it to store private notes on each contact.

The service pulls contact information from the Rapleaf database, so the amount of biographical information and links to social media accounts that are returned will depend on how well Rapleaf has managed to tie that contact’s email address to the various social media services. For some of my contacts it works very well, for others it returns little or no info (presumably because some people don’t use their work email address for social media accounts), but I still love the way it adds an extra useful layer of CRM-like functionality to Gmail with no effort on my part.

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As Marshall Kirkpatrick notes over on ReadWriteWeb, the service doesn’t need your Gmail password to work — but it does have access to your emails (unlike Xobni and MailBrowser, which are local apps), and, as yet, does not have a privacy policy in place. In the comments thread on Kirkpatrick’s post, Rapportive co-founder Rahul Vohra says the reason there’s no privacy policy yet is that service was only opened up to “show some friends.” The app got picked up by the press and the company was caught off guard by its popularity; Vohra says the company is moving as fast as it can to put a policy in place.

(via The Next Web)

Yahoo announces that Google is a follower

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Multi-Recipient SMS Comes to Google Voice [SMS]

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We haven't seen any official announcement, but a few eagle-eyed readers pointed out that the Google Voice web interface now allows users to send text messages to multiple recipients.

To send multi-recipient SMS, just click the SMS button, start typing in recipients in the Gmail-style auto-complete box, and send away. Nothing much to it beyond that, but it's a great—and much-requested—feature addition. Thanks Joseph and Farhood!

Google Voice

Google Translate Gets More Worldly, Adds Nine Languages

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While Google Translate is certainly not perfect in many of its translations, the site is undoubtedly an incredibly useful tool when trying to interpret a word, phrase or entire site in a different language. Today, Google has added nine more languages to Google Translate: Afrikaans, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, Malay, Swahili, Welsh and Yiddish, bringing the number of languages that are supported up to 51.

Google says that with the latest addition, the site now supports all 23 of the official EU languages. And following the events in Iran during the elections, Google added Persian (Farsi) to Google Translate. Google warns users that quality of the translation for the new languages is still basic and may have some glitches.

Google has been integrating Google Translate into many of its other applications, most recently adding support for translation in Google Docs. You can also translate emails within Gmail, webpages using Google Toolbar, and RSS feeds in Google Reader. In June, Google launched the Google Translator Kit, which is a translation editor that lets translators make human edits within machine translations.

Supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links

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Google Reader recently added custom 'Send To' controls to its feature list, and we've been looking for the most useful links to feed it. Here are 11 excellent send-to tools you can add to Reader, with more on the way.

'More on the way' because, despite trying to keep our eyes and feed readers in as many places as possible, we're guessing there are a lot of other great URL-friendly webapps that can be hooked into Reader, as these crowd-sourced examples have already proven.

To install one of these Send To items in your own Reader, head to your Settings link from Reader's main page, click the 'Send to' tab, then hit the 'Create a custom link' button at the bottom. You'll be prompted for a Name, URL, and Icon URL, which you can simply copy and paste from these entries.
Know of a web service, a bookmarklet, or any other webapp that can accept text or items through its URL? You can easily set up a Send To item to feed items from Reader to that webapp. Reader lets you automatically include URL-friendly variables from feed items:

LifehackerThe source of the item
Supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links [Feeds]The title of the item
http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ISY-As4gu-E/supercharge-google-reader-with-send-to-linksThe URL of the item
A shortened URL that redirects to the item

So if you knew, for example, that MyAwesomeLolcatApp can re-write the text on any web page with deliberate-but-cute misspellings, you could create a Send To item that has http://myawesomelolcatapp.com/url=http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ISY-As4gu-E/supercharge-google-reader-with-send-to-links, and it'd work just gangbusters.
If you make your own Send To discoveries, by all means, drop them in the comments, or send them to tips at lifehacker.com with 'Google Reader' and 'Send To' somewhere in the text or subject. Now, onto the neat hacks to make all your RSS items easier to print, save, share, calendar, and even translate:

• Name: Printer Friendly
• URL: http://www.printfriendly.com/print?url=http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ISY-As4gu-E/supercharge-google-reader-with-send-to-links
• Icon URL: http://cdn.printfriendly.com/pf-icon.gif
• What it does: Formats web pages for printing through PrintFriendly, with an eye for less ink usage. (via Zsolt)
  

• Name: Save as PDF
• URL: http://savepageaspdf.pdfonline.com/pdfonline/pdfonline.asp?cURL=http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ISY-As4gu-E/supercharge-google-reader-with-send-to-links
• Icon URL: http://www.adobe.com/lib/com.adobe/template/icon/pdf.gif
• What it does: Sends the article to PDF Online, which preps it as a PDF for saving or printing. (via Digital Inspiration)
  

• Name: Evernote
• URL: http://s.evernote.com/grclip?url=http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ISY-As4gu-E/supercharge-google-reader-with-send-to-links&title=Supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links [Feeds]
• Icon URL: http://www.evernote.com/favicon.ico
• What it does: Adds the URL and page text as an Evernote item, similar to Evernote's 'Web clipping' Firefox add-on or bookmarklet. (via Evernote Blog)
  

• Name: Read It Later
• URL: https://readitlaterlist.com/save?url=http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ISY-As4gu-E/supercharge-google-reader-with-send-to-links&title=Supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links [Feeds]
• Icon URL: http://readitlaterlist.com/favicon.ico
• What it does: Moves feed items into your Read It Later list, viewable through the web, Firefox extensions, and iPhone apps. (via Read It Later and zmnatz)
  

• Name: Email
• URL: mailto:?subject=Supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links [Feeds]&body=%0A<http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ISY-As4gu-E/supercharge-google-reader-with-send-to-links>
• What it does: Activates whatever default mail client you have installed on your system, and auto-fills the subject with the title and the body with a link. (via Google Operating System and AmaraMetellus)
  

• Name: Full Gmail
• URL: http://mail.google.com/mail/?fs=1&tf=1&view=cm&su=Supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links [Feeds]&body=http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ISY-As4gu-E/supercharge-google-reader-with-send-to-links%0A%0AShort link%3A
• Icon URL: http://mail.google.com/favicon.ico
• What it does: Emails a link using Gmail—but the full composition window, not Reader's stubbed email tool. Using Google Apps with your own domain name? As Dustin points out, you can replace mail.google.com with the address for your hosted Google apps, and the rest of the code should work. (via Google Operating System)
  

• Name: Google Calendar
• URL: http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&text=Supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links [Feeds]&details=http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ISY-As4gu-E/supercharge-google-reader-with-send-to-links
• Icon URL: http://calendar.google.com/googlecalendar/images/favicon.ico
• What it does: Primarily useful for feeds that deliver dates and times without a lot of added text. For those items, Google Calendar can pick up the information and create new events from them. (via Google Operating System)
  

• Name: Add This
• URL: http://addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&url=http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ISY-As4gu-E/supercharge-google-reader-with-send-to-links&title=Supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links [Feeds]
• Icon URL: http://addthis.com/favicon.ico
• What it does: Pushes an item link to AddThis' site, where you can more easily share it across a bevy of social networks. (via Digital Inspiration)
  

• Name: HootSuite
• URL: http://hootsuite.com/twitter/bookmark-tool-v2?address=http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ISY-As4gu-E/supercharge-google-reader-with-send-to-links&title=Supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links [Feeds]
• Icon URL: http://static.hootsuite.com/5-49/images/favicon.ico
• What it does: Pushes items over to the advanced Twitter client HootSuite for editing. (via Dustin)
  

• Name: Identica
• URL: http://identi.ca/?action=newnotice&status_textarea=%E2%80%9CSupercharge Google Reader with Send To Links [Feeds]%E2%80%9d%3a%20
• Icon URL: http://identi.ca/favicon.ico
• What it does: Shares links through open source Twitter alternative Identi.ca (via Remko Tronçon)
  

• Name: Google Translate
• URL: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ISY-As4gu-E/supercharge-google-reader-with-send-to-links
• Icon URL: http://translate.google.com/favicon.ico
• What it does: Sends blog articles and feed items to Google Translate for, well, translation. Reader can already translate entire feeds to another language automatically, but this allows for passing along the occasional item. (via Matt Cutts)