…my handy dandy “growl” notified me of a new post by one of my subscribed-to authors. I look forward to his blog often, and found particularly special his newest flash-freebie offerings, as well as coffee card to that bemoaned “rhymes with Barducks” shop.
If you’ve not checked Samual’s blog out at Wake Up Later, which speaks to the free-lancer/Moonlighter in all of us, I encourage you to do so now.
And whilst your their, subscribe! You never know what specials Samual has in-store that someday may surprise you. If not for the free stuff, go there for his great insight.
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I’m curious: How are you using Growlr to notify you of blog updates? Because that could be darned handy. Or darned distracting…
@Matt
My rss-reader of choice is googleReader.
there is a third-party app for the mac (maybe windows too) called, ironically enough, Reader Notifier.
Reader notifier is “growl-aware”
voila, everytime there’s an update to my subscriptions at googleReader, Reader Notifier is made aware, and everytime Reader Notifier becomes aware of something, growl pops-up and notifies me.
Yes, it can be distracting, and truth be know, a bit overkill. Reader Notifier has menubar placement, so a simple quick glance at the menubar and i know how many updates there have been.
Let me know if this answered your question.
Michael
googleReader:
http://www.google.com/reader
Reader Notifier:
http://troelsbay.eu/software/reader
@Michael That did indeed answer my question. I’m not sure I’ll use it, though. I’ve recently switched to using Bloglines to follow my professional and busines related blogs, and I don’t think there’s a similar tool for that. Which could be a good thing. Thinking more about it, I get enough feeds that a Growl every time one came in would be a bit much, Better to check for updates during breaks.
Thanks, though, for the info!