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Better Cooking Through Reader-ing 
Mihai Parparita via Google Reader on Thu, 06 Nov. 2008
We thought it would be fun to have some guest bloggers write about how they use Reader. Ann Verbin is a friend of the Reader team, and a pretty avid user. In this post, she writes about how Reader helps her find and organize recipes. If you use Reader in an interesting way and would like to share, get in touch. -- Mihai
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iGoogle launches Reader integration
Mihai Parparita via Google Reader on Thu, 16 Oct. 2008
It's a little known fact that Reader and iGoogle are siblings. They share some parents (hi Steve!). They've both been growing up fast since their respective launches in mid-2005. They even sat next to each other for a while.
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Get your Blogger following fix (in Reader)
Mihai Parparita via Google Reader on Thu, 28 Aug. 2008
Our friends on the Blogger team just lauched Following. Blogger users can now "follow" blogs they like, given them an easy way keep up with their favorite blogs, and allowing authors to see who their readership is.
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Porting Twitter Digest to Google App Engine
Mihai Parparita via persistent.info on Mon, 12 May. 2008
I've been meaning to play around with Google App Engine for a while, and as a quick project, I decided to port Twitter Digest to it (not as exciting as Kushal's Millidunst Calculator). This loo
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Intern on the Google Reader team
Mihai Parparita via persistent.info on Thu, 24 Apr. 2008
Having interns has worked out well for the Reader team. Following my blog post, we were very pleased to get Nitin Shantharam and Jason Hall to help us out with Reader development. Their stints on the team resulted in a
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persistent.coffee
Mihai Parparita via persistent.info on Thu, 03 Apr. 2008
I've been trying my hand at latte art. Though I have a very long way to go, I've been documenting my efforts, with a hope of learning from my mistakes. Blogger's mobile support makes it pretty easy to collect pictures, and I've fin
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Mail Trends
Mihai Parparita via persistent.info on Tue, 25 Mar. 2008
I get a lot of email (especially at work). I'm trying a Inbox Zero-like approach in order to keep up with it. Though that's helping me to stay on top of things, I had the nagging feeling that I was probably on too ma
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Two Safari 3.1 Tips
Mihai Parparita via persistent.info on Sat, 22 Mar. 2008
Safari 3.1 is out, and I've upgraded my Mac to it. Besides some issues with arrow keys in Reader (we're on it), it's working out well. Here are two hidden prefs that you may find useful:
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu -bool true
The Develop
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One more step
Mihai Parparita via Official Google Reader Blog on Thu, 06 Mar. 2008
photo by groundzero (CC-licensed)Not every Reader re
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J-walking with Reader
Mihai Parparita via Official Google Reader Blog on Thu, 07 Feb. 2008
Google Reader Keyboard (inspiration)Google Reader is well-known for its keyboard shortcuts. When going through thousands of blo
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There's a feed for that?!
Mihai Parparita via Official Google Reader Blog on Mon, 14 Jan. 2008
As an engineer on Google Reader, it's always great to hear from users, especially when it's about how Reader has helped out. I was very happy when the team received this email from Gary Patino:
I was having a hard time finding the right job here in Houston. Days would go by without talking to a single recruiter. But then I started using Google Reader to subscribe to custom-m
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Macros for the new version of Gmail
Mihai Parparita via persistent.info on Tue, 06 Nov. 2007
As those of you on the new version of Gmail might have noticed, nearly all Greasemonkey scripts that used to work on the old version no longer do. Even though it looks pretty similar, the new Gmail is entirely different from a JavaScript, HTML and CSS perspective, so this isn't surprising. Some of the scr
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"We found it!"
Mihai Parparita via Official Google Reader Blog on Thu, 06 Sep. 2007
Here's a search box:
Doesn't seem all that special, does it? Most Google sites have it. But let's look at where it is:
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Namespaced Extensions in Feeds
Mihai Parparita via Google Reader on Thu, 03 Aug. 2006
Feeds can be used for more than just text; they can embed pictures, podcasts and video. There are even more eso
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