Bye Bloglines. Hello Google Reader. + another bookmarklet.

[cdave]

I've finally given up on bloglines. They haven't read Livejournal feeds properly for about a year, and Ask.com seem to have abandoned development or anything more than basic support (according to an unofficial twitterer).

Nice and easy to jump RSS readers thanks to the development of a data standard for doing so (OPML).

The first thing I noticed about Google reader is how much is is against their normal policy. Google Chrome, and the Google home page are both famous for their lack of visible cruft. The Google blog has been known to go on about arguments over moving things up or down by pixels. But on an 800 by 400 display (aka corner of the screen mode) no "content" is visible at all.

despotliz pointed to a nice script to sort that out.I don't have GreaseMonkey installed, on the principle that tendencies to add occasionally used cruft tends to slow my system down. So here's another bookmarklet, mashed up from that and this.

javascript:(function(){%20var%20newSS,%20styles;%20var%20ids%20=%20["viewer-header","logo-container","search","chrome-header","global-info","gbar","viewer-footer"];%20var%20length%20=%20ids.length;%20var%20is_visible%20=%20document.getElementById(ids[0]).style.display%20!=%20"none";%20for%20(var%20i=0;%20i<length;%20i++){%20if(document.getElementById(ids[i])%20!=%20null)%20document.getElementById(ids[i]).style.display%20=%20is_visible?"none":"block";%20}%20styles=".gbh%20{%20display:none%20!important;%20}";%20styles+="#entries%20.entry%20{padding-top:%202px}";%20styles+=".card-common%20{margin:%200%202px}";%20styles+=".entry%20.entry-source-title%20{font-size:110%;}";%20styles+=".entry%20.entry-title%20{font-size:120%;}";%20styles+=".card%20.card-content%20{padding:%202px%201px%202px%202px;}";%20styles+="#current-entry%20.card%20.card-content%20{padding:%202px%201px%202px%202px;}";%20styles+=".entry%20.entry-container%20{padding-bottom:%200;}";%20styles+=".entry%20.entry-body%20{padding-top:%200;}";%20styles+=".entry%20.entry-actions%20{padding:%202px;}";%20if(is_visible){%20var%20logo%20=%20document.getElementById('main');%20logo.style.top%20=%20'0';%20var%20logo%20=%20document.getElementById('chrome');%20logo.style.paddingTop%20=%20'0';%20var%20logo%20=%20document.getElementById('nav');%20logo.style.paddingTop%20=%20'0';%20}%20else%20{%20var%20logo%20=%20document.getElementById('main');%20logo.style.top%20=%20'65px';%20var%20logo%20=%20document.getElementById('chrome');%20logo.style.paddingTop%20=%20'0';%20var%20logo%20=%20document.getElementById('nav');%20logo.style.paddingTop%20=%20'0';%20}%20var%20accountname%20=%20document.getElementById('email-address');%20document.title%20=%20document.title%20+%20"%20|%20"%20+%20accountname.innerHTML%20+%20"%20|%20";%20if(document.createStyleSheet)%20{%20document.createStyleSheet("javascript:'"+styles+"'");%20}%20else%20{%20newSS=document.createElement('link');%20newSS.rel='stylesheet';%20newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);%20document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(newSS);%20}%20})();

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Comments

[andrewducker]

Handy bookmark. Thanks!

[piesandmash.livejournal.com]

Well that's a pain, I liked using beta.bloglines.com - I actually still use it, although I have been frustrated at times by its inability to retrieve certain feeds.

Perhaps it's worth giving Google reader a try then. Are you sharing on there at all?

[cdave]

Nope. That's the frustrating thing.

I haven't seen a way to set my profile up differently for different Google Apps. Or better yet multiple profiles.

I don't want my "real name" gmail address used with Reader sharing. And don't want Crazy Dave used with for instance, Chat.