Wednesday, June 30, 2010
10 Cool Google Reader Buttons You Can Use to Post Feed Content
10 Cool Google Reader Buttons You Can Use to Post Feed Content
The Google Reader team has been rolling out features one after the another to make it more social and fun to use. We always love functionality that has room for experimentation and clever tricks. Be it the auto response in Gmail or the new Google Reader ‘Send-To’ menu.
The Google Reader Send-To button lets you post feed articles to Twitter, Delicious, Blogger, Posterous, Digg, Tumblr and more. If you have not done so you need to go to your Google Reader settings then to the ‘Send To’ tab and choose the sites/services you want to enable. There are already 10+ services and sites you can choose from, however the real action lies a little below.
You can create your own custom menu entries to do all kinds of interesting stuff with the feed articles. Let me explain how:
Google Reader offers you certain placeholders viz ${source}, ${title}, ${url} and ${short-url} which represent the Site, Title, URL and shortened URL of the feed entry you are currently reading. So if you would like to search for the title of the current entry on Google you could easily use the syntax:
http://www.google.com/search?q=${title}
So as along as the site/service you are planning to add allows you to play with the URL you can easily create the menu entry for it.
Here are some examples you can add. (Some sites may not like hot linking to images/icons):
Blog to Wordpress
Name Blog To Wordpress URL http://www.<yourWordpressDomainName>.com/wp-admin/press-this.php?u=${url}&t=${title}&s=${source}&v=2 Icon URL http://s.wordpress.org/favicon.ico?3Save as PDF
Name Save as PDF URL http://savepageaspdf.pdfonline.com/pdfonline/pdfonline.asp?cURL=${url} Icon URL
Send to Ping.fm
Name Send to Ping.fm URL http://ping.fm/ref/?link=${url}&title=${title} Icon URL
Share This button
Name Share this URL http://addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&url=${url}&title=${title} Icon URL http://shareicons.com/favicon.icoSend to Evernote
Name Send to Evernote URL http://www.evernote.com/grclip?url=${url}&title=${title} Icon URL http://s.wordpress.org/favicon.ico?3Identi.ca
Name Identi.ca URL http://identi.ca/?action=newnotice&status_textarea=%E2%80%9C${title}%E2%80%9d%3a%20${short-url} Icon URL http://identi.ca/favicon.icoView full text of partial feeds
Name Full Text Feed URL http://fivefilters.org/content-only/makefulltextfeed.php?url=${url} Icon URL
Translate an Article
Name Google Translate URL http://translate.google.com/translate?u=${url} Icon URL http://translate.google.com/favicon.icoArchive with Iterasi
Name Iterasi URL https://www.iterasi.net/Capture.aspx?q=n&v=1.0&u=${url} Icon URL https://www.iterasi.net/favicon.icoSpeed Read with Zap Reader
Name Zap Reader URL http://www.zapreader.com/reader?URL=${url} Icon URL http://zapreader.com/favicon.icoMake sure you disable the popup blocker for Google Reader as most of these will open as a popup.
If you have some other cool send to tricks up your sleeve then share with us in the comments!
(By) Varun Kashyap - Programmer, Blogger and Tech Enthusiast, who tweets @VarunKashyap and blogs about tips, tricks and latest on the web at TechCrazy Blog
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
New Romance
This simple iPhone 4 comic made me laugh this morning. I guess, to some extent, it explains why we’re all here. [explosm via TNW]
New Romance
This simple iPhone 4 comic made me laugh this morning. I guess, to some extent, it explains why we’re all here. [explosm via TNW]
Sunday, June 27, 2010
The world's most expensive hotel opens up with the world's largest outdoor pool on the 55th floor
It's finally happened! The $5.95 billion Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Singapore finally opened its doors to public in a gala event, and it also managed to dethrone the Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi from its position as the world's most expensive hotel. But that's not all, the main attraction of the hotel is a 650ft wide pool perched up at the 55th storey of the magnificent hotel, making it the largest outdoor pool in the world that high. Called as the Infinity pool, the drop at the edge of the pool spills into a three-tiered catchment which pumps water right back to the main pool! The hotel also has a boat-shaped 'SkyPark' on top of the three towers. The hotel features 2,560 rooms that would cost you $520 a night. Designed by Moshe Safdie, the structure is said to be based on the design resembling a deck of cards. The hotel décor includes an indoor canal that has Sampan boats to ride in, a casino, an outdoor plaza, a convention centre, a theatre, a crystal pavilion and a lotus flower shaped museum. The resort will open employment to over 10,000 locals, enough to generate $72m each year.
