Bloglines has an update!
Well, it finally happened. Bloglines
has made some product updates that I’ve noticed tonight. They
changed the browser title to include the number of unread items in it a
la GMail, the number of unread items is actually 2 numbers: one is the
number of unread items, and the other number is the number of items
that the user has “saved” for later viewing. The 2 numbers are
separated by a colon.
They’ve also added some cool navigation features in the reading
frame. You can use the ‘j’ key to scroll to the next item and the
‘k’ key to go to the previous item. There are also hotkeys to
move to the next subscription, the next folder, to refresh the left
pane, and mark all as read.
I love these changes, especially the unread count in the browser title
bar, cause now I can just leave it open in a tab of firefox and know
whether or not I have unread items in there, I’ve been using the greasemonkey script that Alex Bosworth wrote to do just this. The hotkeys for navigation I first saw in the feed lounge
alpha, so I wonder if thats where the idea came from. Bloglines
development isn’t really talked about too much, they definitely aren’t
as transparent, (or prevalent I suppose) as other software vendors like
Microsoft. Its nice to see them making some upgrades.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on October 27, 2005 @ 5:25 pm
I think they rushed these updates out, leaving bloglines open for a long time now breaks their interface, you can click on blogs but not see any entries: worse, it marks them as read.