New Safari 5 Google Reader Extensions

Google Reader Tools is an excellent extension which allows users to alter the appearance of Google Reader in Safari 5 in a number of Significant ways.  It allows you to manually set the update time interval for Google Reader.  It shows the number of unread feeds in the toolbar icon.  You can choose between 1) all unread articles, 2) articles in your feeds, 3) You can either view the feed in Safari or google reader.  Most importantly you can change the appearance of Google Reader from the rather ugly appearance (in my opinion) that Google provides to a more Mac like user interface.

The extension offer different styles plus you have the option of adding additional choices.  This extension, letting you view your Google Reader feeds in a Safari like interface, in large part obviates the need for an external RSS software reader program like the excellent NetNewsWire.

 

Another Google Reader extension is Google Reader™ Mac OS X Snow Leopard + Delicious.  This extension has an even more attractive user interface but it is not as customizable as Google Reader Tools. On the other hand it provides you with a very useful tool bar in the browser window which appears when you load the Google Reader website.  The only downside of this extension for me is that it does provide a toolbar icon.Safari 5 extensions are appearing on a daily basis.  You may find collections of them on the Safari Extensions and  PimpMySafari.Comwebsites.

John H. Armwood